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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition by Nora Ephron
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Category: Literature | 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
Hungry Hill by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
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Category: Middle Reader Fiction | 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
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Category: Classics | 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
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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
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a str ...Show more
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A twisted hilarious satire about an English village struck by a mysterious epidemic.The story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose b ...Show more
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