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A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics,VMC Designer Collection
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory ...Show more
Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: VMC
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him ...You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her l ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...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
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.98 AUD
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
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.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 ech ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
'One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gore Vidal * The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the Guardian observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'.Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mis ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: General 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