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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
Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Witty, catty and entertaining, Paris Was Yesterday is an insider's guide to the arts scene in Paris between the warsIn 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly 'Letter from Paris' for the nascent New Yorker. Her brief: to tell New Yorkers, under her pen name of 'Genet', what the French thought was ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Willa Cather's twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather's Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery-conflicts ...Show more
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House) and David Morrissey lead an outstanding cast in this rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries remarkable echoes of our own times. South Riding is a terrific love story, but it's also a raw and real portrait of a whole community ...Show more
The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Linda Burnell dreams, listless and distant, whilst downstairs her mother sets in order the family's new home in the New Zealand countryside. Her vigorous and exhausting husband, Stanley, is at the office, but will return with eager and admiring eyes. Her children prepare lunch on a concrete step and her ...Show more
The Holiday by Stevie Smith
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Celia lives in a London suburb with her beloved aunt in the post-war England of 1949. Witty, fragile, and quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love-for her friends, her colleagues, her relatives, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. ...Show more