Virago Modern Classics – serie
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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 MACKINTOSH'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' …
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 …
84 Charing Cross Road
Av Helene Hanff
Häftad, 2010
3,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
142 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 …
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, …
Heartburn
VMC 40th Anniversary Edition
Av Nora Ephron
Häftad, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
144 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 …
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
142 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
144 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
144 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 …
Emily's Quest
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2013
147 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
179 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)
224 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 …
Anne of Avonlea
Häftad, 2017
142 kr
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The second book in the Anne Shirley series. 'Having adventures comes natural to some people,' said Anne serenely. 'You just have a gift for them or you haven't.' Five years ago, Anne arrived at Avonlea a skinny orphan without a friend in the world; now it would be impossible to imagine Green Gables …
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
219 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 …
Anne of Green Gables
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody - not really' When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they'd asked the orphanage for a quiet …
Persian Boy
A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2025
142 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 …
Woman In Berlin
An extraordinary wartime memoir
Häftad, 2011
156 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 …
Last of the Wine
A Virago Modern Classic
Av Mary Renault
Häftad, 2015
144 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
144 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
144 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
144 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 …
Rainbow Valley
Häftad, 2017
140 kr
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The seventh book in the Anne Shirley series. 'There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in the lower corner near the marsh. Not a great many people knew of its existence. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of …
Loitering With Intent
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2007
144 kr
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A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson.Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose …
High Rising
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2012
144 kr
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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten …
West With The Night
Häftad, 1984
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
142 kr
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WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Markham was taken to Kenya at the age of four. As an adult she was …
Jamaica Inn
The thrilling gothic classic from the beloved author of REBECCA
Inbunden, 2012
220 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 …
South Riding
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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'One of my favourite novels: a life-enhancing, twentieth-century masterpiece' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT'A novel that works beautifully on all sorts of levels, capturing the life of a whole community even as it offers us the passions, frustrations and …
Stepdaughter
'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' VIRGINIA FEITO
Häftad, 2025
132 kr
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Discover Caroline Blackwood's darkly brilliant debut - a perfect rediscovered classic for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh'A bracingly nasty book . . . Splendid, dark, often very funny' MEGAN NOLAN, TelegraphA lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to …
