Modern Classics
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Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton
Read more ▸ Order ▸Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in...
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Virago Modern Classics at 40
Various
Read more ▸ Order ▸To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, a baker’s dozen of stunning, deluxe...
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Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Audre Lorde
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies...
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To War with Whitaker
Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly
Read more ▸ Order ▸Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. ‘To War with Whitaker’ is...
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Sex & Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
Eve Babitz
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven – child of sun and surf...
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The Pugilist at Rest: and other stories
Thom Jones
Read more ▸ Order ▸Thom Jones’s magnificent collection of stories presents a brutal and authentic vision of the human...
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while...
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Oreo
Fran Ross
Read more ▸ Order ▸Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with...
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The New York Stories
John O'Hara
Read more ▸ Order ▸John O’Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more...
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Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
Read more ▸ Order ▸With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through...
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The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Read more ▸ Order ▸With an introduction by Joanna Lumley Every summer, the Cazalet brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert,...
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Life Of Pi
Yann Martel
Read more ▸ Order ▸One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .
After the tragic sinking of a cargo...
