China Court. A Virago Modern Classic, Paperback - Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden's classic novel China Court, first published in the 1960s, is a compelling story of a century of love, ambition and endurance.Publishe...

A captivating classic novel of a poor girl striving to create beauty among the bombsites of postwar London.

Rumer Godden's enchanting classic about a girl who overcomes the odds to become a ballet dancer will thrill young readers.Publisher: Little, Brown ...

Rumer Godden's classic wartime love story is a dramatic tale that was the basis for the film Enchantment starring David Niven.

Rumer Godden's classic novel tells the story of a young English woman's dramatic and disturbing experiences in Himalayan Kashmir.Publisher: Little,...

Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): R...

Reducere. A New York Times-bestselling novel of the lives, loves, and foibles of five generations of a British family occupying a manor house in Wales. For n...

*A classic tale of fantasy and self-delusion from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century

First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn't be more relevant for today's celebrity-obsessed culture. Th...

Barbara Comyns' witty and touching classic The Vet's Daughter tells the story of Alice, a young woman from Edwardian south London who is gripped by...

Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, an...

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind ga...

Nell Dunn's 1967 novel which was made into a film directed by Ken LoachPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Nell DunnNumber of pages: 160C...

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when first published in 1965, The Mandelbaum Gate is among Muriel Spark's most accomplished novels.

First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stand...

The classic novel - the first she ever wrote - by acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said... is a dark and grippi...

In this delightful summertime comedy from Angela Thirkell's classic 1930s Barsetshire series, Oxford student Richard Tebben is won over by the dash...

First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation.

Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the s...

A gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?

In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychologi...

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life.

A brilliantly gripping psychological thriller. Too much love can be a bad thing.

The King Must Die retells the story of Theseus, bringing mythology vividly to life.

First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.

Barbara Comyns' classic first novel weaves a vivid, funny tale - told in the unique style of her young narrator - of a chaotic and ultimately tragi...

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniv...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances

A sparkling, unconventional social comedy set in bohemian 1930s London.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Mary RenaultNumber of pages: 3...

Seventeen menacing spine-chillers full of Patricia Highsmith's trademark simmering malice.

Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.

The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.

Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy ...

People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of ri...

In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ...

The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith's first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a scr...

Elizabeth Taylor's most famous novel, shortlisted for the 1975 Booker Prize, is published in VMC designer hardback. Cover by Celia Birtwell.Publish...

The Talented Mr Ripley is one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written. To mark the novel's 60th anniversary, we are addin...

A coming of age story set in the summer heat of France's Champagne region.

Reducere. Five nuns confront nature--physical and human--in a remote Himalayan convent in the bestselling novel that inspired the new FX miniseries. Under th...

Reducere. Facing harsh adult realities, a young English girl in India must leave childhood behind, in this masterful tale from a New York Times-bestselling a...

Reducere. A sixteen-year-old girl captures the dangerous attention of an older man in this New York Times-bestselling novel by the author of Black Narcissus....

The old woman is happy living in her old vinegar bottle house by a loch, until one day she saves a charming fish prince who grants her wishes in re...

The basis for Powell & Pressburger's Academy Award-winning 1947 film, Rumer Godden's much-admired classic novel tells the story of a sisterhood of ...

Publisher: Spinifex PressAuthor(s): Finola MoorheadNumber of pages: 81Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 217 x 156 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softba...

A hundred and one dalmatians and more! This bumper Modern C lassic edition includes the original Hundred and One Dalmatians and Dodie Smith's seque...

Publisher: Classic Comic Store LtdAuthor(s): Mark TwainNumber of pages: 48Collection: Classics IllustratedPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 2...

Reducere. Leibniz (1645 -1716) had a lifelong interest in things Chinese and accorded China an important role in his ecumenical endeavors. This collection of...

Reducere. This edition of Doctrine of the Mean features both English and Chinese side by side for easy reference and bilingual support. The paragraphs are or...