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Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existen ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Superbly evoking life in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love Aloneis the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience it. She focuses her energy on Jonathan Crow, an unlikeable and arrogant man whom she follows to London after fou ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 a life of honest love -- and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote ...Show more
Frost in May by Antonia White
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | 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
Frost in May by Antonia White
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
At the age of nine a girl enters a convent boarding school, dedicated to the creation of soldiers of Christ, accustomed to hardship and ridicule. In this enclosed world, forbidden but passionate friendships provide the only deviation from a regime that almost stifles her young soul.
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) 'Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' Vogue 'I really wish I had written this book. It's a tragi-comedy set in Ireland after the First World War. A real work of craftsmanship' Hilary Mantel I do know how to behave - believe me, be ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame; Linda Grant (Editor, Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a writer twice married).
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more
My Antonia by Willa Cather
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My ntonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family.
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin There's something wild in this ''picture of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales''. Banned by the author herself until ten years after her death in 1954, this vivid Australian classic was originally published in Edi ...Show more