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The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wa ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$29.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
$27.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
The Weather In The Streets (Virago Modern Classic) by Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. H ...Show more
The Wedding by Dorothy West; Diana Evans (Introduction by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman, Paris Review Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the ...Show more
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. Today's de ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Gilman, is a highly celebrated and academic description of one of the most friendly doers on the planet. This work is considered an important morning task in feminist literature and one that explored questions about the beauty of the lady, both physical and mental. It ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .' Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more