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Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: VMC
In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge there, with her Aunt Patience. But when Mary arrives, the warning of the coachman echoes in her mind: Jamaica Inn has a desolate power, and behind it's crumbling walls Patience i ...Show more
Jane of Lantern Hill: A Virago Modern Classic by L. M. Montgomery
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: VMC
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead - until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lante ...Show more
Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: VMC
Who can resist a book with chapters such as 'A Lady and Her Liquor', 'Pleasures of a Single Bed' and 'Solitary Refinement'? In this priceless gem from a more genteel age, Marjorie Hillis provides no-nonsense advice for the single-but-hoping-not-to-be woman. *** 'This book is no brief for living alone. F ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$34.99 NZD
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
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: VMC | Reading Level: very good
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
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
$32.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Vmc Ser.
It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victor ...Show more
One Pair of Feet: The Entertaining Memoirs of a Young Nurse During World War II: A Virago Modern Classic by Monica Dickens
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: VMC
As the effects of the war raging in Europe begin to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to pursue a new career, and so enrols as a student nurse at a hospital in rural Hertfordshire. By nature clever and spirited, she struggles to submit to the iron rule of the Matron and ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
$27.99 NZD
$29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip - her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kest ...Show more
Several Perceptions by Angela Carter
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effo ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Blunderer: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Blunderer was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of th ...Show more