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Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love f ...Show more
Found in the Street: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC
On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a wealthy aspiring artist, and it is his misfortune to have it returned to him - with all $263 and credit cards untouched. Because now Ralph knows where Jack lives. Elsie ...Show more
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, ...Show more
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P. L. Travers
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all ...Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an Englis ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (#1) by Maya Angelou
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vmc Ser.
Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSThe international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vmc Designer Collection
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...Show more
In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic by Merce Rodoreda
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, bo ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her un ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge there, with her Aunt Patience. But when Mary arrives, the warning of the coachman echoes in her mind: Jamaica Inn has a desolate power, and behind it's crumbling walls Patience i ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection | Reading Level: very good
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
Jane of Lantern Hill: A Virago Modern Classic by L. M. Montgomery
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: VMC
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead - until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lante ...Show more
Kind are Her Answers: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying patient, a ...Show more