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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
The Glass Cell: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC
Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man. 'The Glass Cell has lost little ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: very good
THE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contr ...Show more
The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken
16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: VMC | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
'The Under People. They live in a huge Cave. They are thought to be boring upwards. Giant worms and flying ants. Underground magic.' Mickle, the palace cat, knows something is wrong. He can feel it in his whiskers. Then he finds scribbled notes revealing that the kingdom in danger. (Yes, of course he ca ...Show more
The Lady and the Unicorn: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a jasmine-covered garden, the Lemarchant family live, clinging to the fringes of respectability: neither Indian nor English, they are accepted by no one and exploited by all. After only a day in India, Stephen Bright meets Rosa Lemarchant. In an il ...Show more
The North Face: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen ...Show more
The River: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood - the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journ ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: VMC
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all te ...Show more
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia - neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is, he hopes, missing him. While he waits around at a beach resort, unable to progress on the film script he is ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
This Sweet Sickness (Virago Classic) by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC
David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with ...Show more
Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into ...Show more