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Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refus ...Show more
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria GLENDINNING
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dark and beautifully crafted historical novel by an award-winning author. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished from her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey. While Agnes grapples with the ...Show more
The Butcher's Daughter (HB) by Victoria Glendinning
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
We are, all of us, princes and peasants, alone in this world. The Butcher 's Daughter is the richly atmospheric story of a young woman 's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a period of great upheaval during the Tudor era. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of ...Show more
The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classic) by Rebecca West; Sadie Jones (Introduction by); Victoria Glendinning (Introduction by)
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Weald ...Show more
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville West by Victoria Glendinning (Foreword by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghur ...Show more
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