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A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You are a disgusting little machine, nothing else. Your days are numbered.' Ed Reynolds, an editor at a prestigious publishing house, has received a number of anonymous poison pe ...Show more
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
$27.98 AUD
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 Suspension of Mercy: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: VMC
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends in ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$24.99 AUD
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
Death Comes For the Archbishop by Cather Willa
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly reb ...Show more
Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | 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
Edith's Diary: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | 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
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: good
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in o ...Show more
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love f ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek (FS) by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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