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Frost in May by Antonia White
$29.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only devia ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the w ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'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 an ...Show more
Harriet Said... by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters 'the Tsar' - almost old ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
'The pie I threw at Mark made a terrific mess, but a blueberry pie would have been even better, since it would have permanently ruined his new blazer, the one he bought with Thelma.' Rachel Samstat is smart, successful, terrific cook, married to a high-flying Washington journalist . . . and devastated. ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another w ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$24.99 NZD
$28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more
Hungry Hill by Daphne Du Maurier
$29.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. A ...Show more
I'll Never Be Young Again by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under ... I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slo ...Show more