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The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
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 inexhaustible ...Show more
The Persian Boy - A Novel of Alexander the Great: a Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault; Tom Holland (Introduction by); Seán Hewitt (Introduction by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest historical novels ever written'SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing'DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex and eloquent'MADELINE MILLER'Mary Renault is a shining light'HILARY MANTEL***A groundbreaking queer classic ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty' NEW STATESMAN'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosophe ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough; Maeve Binchy (Introduction by)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The basis of one of the most acclaimed television miniseries of all time, The Thorn Bird is the towering saga of three generations of a remarkable family in the rugged Australian Outback. The novel follows the triumphs and tragedies, the dramas and disappointments, the passions and the pain of the Clear ...Show more