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Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the succe ...Show more
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat - Sarah Waters Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece to India. Fire From Heaven tells the story of ...Show more
Frost in May by Antonia White
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only devia ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'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 w ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$22.99 AUD
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
$34.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
$24.95 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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