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Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$20.00 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
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams. He and ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
This novel centers around the weekend party that Alice Barton, a shy English girl, attends at Pomfret Towers, the magnificent seventeenth-century home of Lord Pomfret. Alice's mother, Mrs. Barton, has decided that now is the time that timid, home-centered Alice, must learn to socialize. Alice, mustering ...Show more
Poor Caroline by Winifred Holtby
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company - her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a pioneer, one who must risk ev ...Show more
Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$40.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a sma ...Show more
The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair ...I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream.' In 'The Doll', a waterlogged notebook is ...Show more