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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
With a cover design by Lucienne Day When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgem ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics,VMC Designer Collection
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vmc Designer Collection
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: VMC Designer Collection | Reading Level: very good
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
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