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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
$39.99 NZD
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 NZD
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
An Episode of Sparrows (Modern Classic) by Rumer Godden
$21.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: VMC
Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Square. Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of local boys is to blame, but her sister, Olivia, isn't so sure. She wonders why the neighbourhood children - 'sparrows', she calls them - have to be locked out: don't they have ...Show more
Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'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 her l ...Show more
Dunedin by Shena Mackay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Ma ...Show more
Edith's Diary: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it's safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but most of all sh ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek (FS) by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.98 NZD
$21.99 (9% off)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VMC
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedom, honest love - and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. To escape the shallowness of court life, Dona retreats to ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$34.99 NZD
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 Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Vmc Ser. | Reading Level: good
"'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...i>/i>This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic by Merce Rodoreda
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: VMC
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, bo ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$32.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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.