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An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame; Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing' Hilary Mantel When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental instit ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. Fo ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
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