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Rebecca
the iconic masterpiece of jealousy and obsession
Häftad, 2025
146 kr
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FALL IN LOVE WITH THE ICONIC GOTHIC CLASSIC'An unforgettable masterpiece . . . filled with razor-sharp tension, escalating dread, and a twist that chills to the bone' FREIDA MCFADDEN'It's the book every writer wishes they'd written' CLARE MACKINTOSHHe did not belong to me at all, he belonged to …
Heartburn
VMC 40th Anniversary Edition
Av Nora Ephron
Häftad, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
143 kr
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A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON'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'Never fails …
Fran Lebowitz Reader
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Häftad, 2025
155 kr
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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from the New York legend …
84 Charing Cross Road
Av Helene Hanff
Häftad, 2010
3,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
132 kr
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'Such a delightful reading experience' Virginia Evans, bestselling author of The Correspondent, winner of the Women's Prize 2026'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL'Beguile an hour of your …
Heartburn
40th Anniversary Edition – with a Foreword by Stanley Tucci
Av Nora Ephron
Inbunden, 2023
217 kr
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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 …
Rebecca
Inbunden, 2018
217 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their …
Girl, Interrupted
TikTok made me buy it!
Häftad, 2000
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
130 kr
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The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie."Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim" TIME "Intelligent and painful" Guardian"Poignant, …
My Cousin Rachel
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction . . . brilliantly, marvellously chilling' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Moody and unnerving' GILLIAN FLYNN'Sinuous and undeniably feral' JULIE MYERSON***'Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a …
Jamaica Inn
The thrilling gothic classic from the beloved author of REBECCA
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'A brilliantly executed thriller' VOGUE'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'The master of slow-burning menace' STACEY HALLS'Her influence on fiction is incalculable, her imagination unsurpassable' ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEYShe was a woman, and …
Passion Of New Eve
Häftad, 1982
145 kr
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'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT 'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' KIRKUS REVIEWS'I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, …
My Brilliant Career
The dazzling Australian classic, now a major Netflix series
Häftad, 1980
143 kr
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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES 'A splendidly vivid display . . . its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice' THE TIMES 'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' ANITA SETHI, GUARDIAN'It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius' NEW YORK …
Jamaica Inn
The thrilling gothic classic from the beloved author of REBECCA
Inbunden, 2012
218 kr
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Her mother's dying request obliges Mary Yellan to make a grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. With the coachman's warning echoing in her mind and affected by the inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in …
House on the Strand
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
148 kr
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FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . ' NEW YORK TIMES'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER When Dick Young's friend, …
In Diamond Square
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2026
143 kr
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'A small masterpiece' COLM TÓIBÍN, DAILY TELEGRAPH'The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War' GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ'Rodoreda's writing pays such fierce and tender attention to the experience of being alive, and the tempest that ordinary life can be' HELEN OYEYEMIWhen we were …
Emily's Quest
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2013
146 kr
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There are two things in life Emily Starr is certain of - that she will be a great writer and that she and Teddy Kent were destined to be together. School is over and one by one her friends leave to follow their dreams, including Teddy, who goes to art school in Montreal. Emily chooses to stay at …
Testament of Youth
An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a …
Fran Lebowitz Reader
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Inbunden, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
223 kr
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Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's …
Jane And Prudence
Av Barbara Pym
Häftad, 2022
143 kr
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BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I devoured all her books, but Jane and Prudence remains my favourite' JILLY COOPER 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday …
Street
Av Ann Petry
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
131 kr
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FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'The first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies' NEW YORK TIMES'My …
Rebecca
Inbunden, 2012
218 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their …
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
142 kr
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ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON'Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU'There is no novel …
Persian Boy
A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2025
143 kr
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A GROUNDBREAKING QUEER CLASSIC AND POWERFUL REIMAGINING OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS LOVER, FOR FANS OF SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY 'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction . . . Renault's eye …
Company She Keeps
Häftad, 2024
131 kr
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BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GROUP 'A jagged diamond of a book' OBSERVER 'A woman of intellect and style' CELIA MCGEE, NEW YORK TIMES'Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful' DAILY MAIL Told through six interlinked stories, this is a dazzling, fractured portrait of 1930s …
Woman In Berlin
An extraordinary wartime memoir
Häftad, 2011
170 kr
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'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it' ARUNDHATI ROY 'One …
Angel
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
148 kr
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INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the …
Last of the Wine
A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2015
142 kr
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Athens and Sparta, the mighty city states of ancient Greece, locked together in a quarter century of conflict: the Peloponnesian War. Alexias the Athenian was born, passed through childhood and grew to manhood in those troubled years, that desperate and dangerous epoch when the golden age of …
The Magic Toyshop
Häftad, 1981
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
130 kr
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This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked... She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.'Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she …
Fire from Heaven
A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2025
146 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1970 LOST BOOKER PRIZE, INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLANDTHE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, …
Funeral Games
A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERSThe …
Desert of the Heart
Av Jane Rule
Häftad, 2026
143 kr
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This was the freedom she wanted, an animal freedom exposed to the emptiness of sky and land and water. As she stepped forward, Ann flipped into the water and was gone.Evelyn Hall, running from her disastrous marriage of sixteen years, arrives in the neon-lit desert heat of 1950s Reno - the only …
