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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First
29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.' 117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion. This sparsely written and unique record tel ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
26.00 NZD
29.99 (13% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies ...' Elizabeth's uniquely witty pen records each season in her beloved garden, where she escapes from the s ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Introduction by)
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'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 w ...Show more
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition by Nora Ephron
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI'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'I kept a copy of Nora Ephron's Hear ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
22.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
10.00 NZD
20.00 (50% off)
Category: Fiction Age 9-12 | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A beautifully produced treat' Anna Carey, Irish TimesIn ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A beautiful hardback edition to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the best-loved novels ever written. A gothic tale of love, secrets and jealousy.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY'One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
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
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more