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84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
Category: Biography | 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].'
A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...Show more
A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Funny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'Elizabeth Mavor relishes spirited, unorthodox women, free with their tongues and ready to snap their fingers at convention' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
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 is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates ...Show more
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A "vivid, unsentimental, powerful" portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times-bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly). She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for ...Show more
A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Elizabeth and Richard are on holiday in Morocco, travelling from its fertile coast to the barren uplands beyond the Atlas mountains. During the expedition's adventures and mishaps, Elizabeth surveys her eighteen-year marriage and its accumulations of grievance, frustration and betrayal. Nina Bawden allo ...Show more
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secret ...Show more
All Men Are Mortal by Simone De Beauvoir
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
All over the world, people are claiming their rights. Are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? The diversity of African countries considered in ...Show more
All the Dogs of My Life by Elizabeth von Arnim
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
From Bijou, her very first dog, to Chunkie and Knobbie, her favourite, and last, canine companions, Elizabeth von Arnim takes us through the complex journey of her life. From her Pomeranian idyll (encapsulated in her first novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden) to less happy days in London following th ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPERIn a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
Anna Apparent by Nina Bawden
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Who is Anna? Is she Annie-May Gates, the wartime evacuee? Is she Giles's shy child bride? Conscientious mother and housewife? Or Daniel's undemanding but sophisticated mistress? It takes catastrophe for Anna to emerge as an individual, claiming her own identity.