In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Native Son by Richard Wright
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage classics
Gripping and furious, "Native Son" follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pri ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance set in the 'roaring' 1890s, Tipping the Velvet follows the gl ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: Literature | 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
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy an ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago V S.
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - ...Show more
Meridon (#3) by Philippa Gregory
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Category: Literature | Series: Wideacre 3
In her nighttime dreams she was the favoured child, heir to land, beloved of her family, sleeping soft between linen sheets. But during the day she was bruised, barefoot and hungry.Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelin ...Show more
Wilt in Nowhere (#4 Wilt Series) by Tom Sharpe
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Category: Literature | Series: Wilt Ser.
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America. ...Show more
Denizen: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize by James McKenzie Watson
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Category: Literature | Series: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize
A gothic thriller exploring rural Australia’s simultaneous celebration of harsh country and stoic people – a tension that forces its inhabitants to dangerous breaking points. On a remote property in western NSW, nine-year-old Parker fears that something is wrong with his brain. His desperate attempts to ...Show more