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Heartburn by Nora Ephron
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition by Nora Ephron
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' NIGELLA LAWSON'I kept a copy of Nora Ephron's Hear ...Show more
Jane And Prudence by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERIf Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of the ...Show more
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Julius by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. 'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wi ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERCatherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the rec ...Show more
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark; Mark Lawson (Introduction by)
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Chapter Books | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
No Fond Return Of Love by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinDulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Ay ...Show more