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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
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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)
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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 Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
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Category: No Category | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics
The Street by Ann Petry
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019. 'Ann Petry's first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world - the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies . . ...Show more
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and ungainly - the very op ...Show more
The Weather In The Streets (Virago Modern Classic) by Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. H ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more