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Leonard Woolf - A life by Victoria Glendinning
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, we see the whole man for the whole time. As well as being a prominent member ...Show more
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie by Victoria Glendinning
$34.95 AUD
Category: General
The love affair between the writer Elizabeth Bowen and the elegant and charming Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed quickly after their first meeting in 1941 and continued over the next three decades until Bowen's death in 1973. Theirs was a passion that flourished in the heightened, dangerous ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781-1826 by Victoria Glendinning
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria GLENDINNING
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dark and beautifully crafted historical novel by an award-winning author. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished from her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey. While Agnes grapples with the ...Show more
The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classic) by Rebecca West; Sadie Jones (Introduction by); Victoria Glendinning (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Weald ...Show more
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