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The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
$27.98 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: VMC Designer Collection
A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs ...Show more
The Friendly Young Ladies: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonor ...Show more
The Glass Cell: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man. 'The Glass Cell has lost little ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: very good
THE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contr ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$27.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
The North Face: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen ...Show more
The River: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood - the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journ ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: VMC
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all te ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: VMC
The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into ...Show more
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: VMC
At the age of 18, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air, and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becomi ...Show more