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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revive ...Show more
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Lady Slane was young, she nurtured a secret, burning ambition: to become an artist. She became, instead, the dutiful wife of a great statesman, and mother to six children. In her widowhood she finally defies her family. Her children, all over sixty, have planned for her to spend her remaining days ...Show more
Challenge by Vita Sackville-West
$29.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Virago Modern Classics
CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West's second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the aughor suddenly changed her mind. This was not because she lacked confidence in her work,but because of the scandal it would have caused. CHALLENGE remained unpublished for over fifty years. Vita's love affair ...Show more
Heritage by Vita Sackville-West
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ruth Pennistan is a farmer's daughter, born and brought up in Kent. But her dark hair and eyes belie a forgotten ancestry - a Spanish gypsy grandmother and a passionate inheritance. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even whilst Ruth becomes trapped again ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West
$44.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Tauris Parke Paperback S.
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Pe ...Show more
Pepita by Vita Sackville-West
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSON. Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women - this book tells their stories. Her grandmother Pepita, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. T ...Show more
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS. Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate. He is a fixed feature in the eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues and traditions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role ...Show more
The Heir by Vita Sackville-West
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
As his elderly relative lies dying, insurance salesman Mr Chase stands in the wings, waiting to inherit. Yet once in possession, he deems the manor house to be entirely impractical; a burden, whose only useful purpose is to be sold for capital. For him, the house holds none of the charm that had so begu ...Show more
The Land by Vita Sackville-West
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poetic output of Vita Sackville-West is dominated by two long works: The Land and The Garden. The Land, published in 1926, is a didactic hymn to the Kentish countryside. Divided into four sections according to the four seasons, its structure and subject matter bring to mind Virgil's Georgics, bu ...Show more
Vita Sackville-West: A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West; Kate Baylay
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. ...Show more