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Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her un ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection | Reading Level: very good
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
Jane of Lantern Hill: A Virago Modern Classic by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classics for Children | Series: VMC
For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead - until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lante ...Show more
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In these darkly satirical, often hilarious, sketches you' ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC | Reading Level: very good
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams. He and ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
The Dark Horse: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'All horses can walk - some badly, some well, but to a few is given a gift of movement feline in its grace, a slouching, flowing continuous movement that is a joy to watch. Dark Invader strode in glorious rhythm, his great shoulders rolling, muscles rippling along his flanks under the satin skin.' Dark ...Show more