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Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD Born on the wrong side of the creek, John Buddy Pearson, the son of a slave, has come a long way since his shoeless days. With some schooling, a job and marriage to clever Lucy Potts, his fortunes are looking up. But, unable to resist the lure of women or a fight, ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
27.00 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General 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 Antonia by Willa Cather
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My ntonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family.
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Dulcie Mainwearing 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 Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps D ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
19.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A beautifully produced treat' Anna Carey, Irish TimesIn ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
34.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
From the author of Ballet Shoes In this captivating collection of festive stories, there are auditions on stage and antics on ice, trips to the pantomime, holiday adventures, and laughter shared with family and friends. Charming, heartwarming and funny, this exciting new collection is sure to be a hit ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
22.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ...Show more
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield