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  • Bad Faith

    A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

    by Carmen Callil ...
    Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

    by Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Carmen Callil, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Blake Morrison, Maryanne Wolf, Nicholas Carr, Jane Davis ...
    In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams.Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book?Reading is not an innate human ability. Many people can't read. Many people would rather read a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Modern Library

    The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950

    by Carmen Callil, Colm Toibin ...
    For Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and argue why each should be considered a modern classic. Enlightening, often unexpected and always engaging ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Oh Happy Day

    Those Times and These Times

    by Carmen Callil ...
    'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book ReviewIn this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great grandmother Sary Lacey, born in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker. Through detailed research, we follow Sary fro... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Weather In The Streets

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 250 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY LUCY CALDWELL'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'T****old with raw, emotional honesty that, in 1936, was rare and shocking. And still is' DAILY MAIL'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes'</s... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My Brilliant Career

    The dazzling Australian classic, now a Netflix series

    by Miles Franklin ...
    Series Book 150 - Virago Modern Classics
    NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM WITH BAFTA WINNING ACTRESS, JUDY DAVIS'A splendidly vivid display . . . its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice' THE TIMES'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' ANITA SETHI, GUARDIAN'It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius' NEW YORK TIMESFirst published in ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Invitation to the Waltz

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 246 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER'Every emotional ripple is beautifully observed: the hideous anticipation' GUARDIAN'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters' MARGARET DRABBLEA diary for her innermost thoughts, a... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Ballad and the Source

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 247 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER'I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann's best and most permanent book' RAYMOND MORTIMER'Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story . . . Unforgettable' NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNEThe tale of... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Echoing Grove

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 248 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'A love triangle of bruising intensity, with a highly intricate and elegant structure' CLARE CHAMBERS'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love' MARGARET DRABBLETwo sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. Fo... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Sea-Grape Tree

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 244 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own particular acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARDIn 1933 we meet Rebecca, heroine of The Ballad and the Source - but in a different world, on many levels. Betrayed by her married lover, Rebecca arrives alone ... Read more

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  • Dusty Answer

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Series Book 245 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' JONATHAN COE'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Mamma was fast ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Frost In May

    by Antonia White ...
    Series Book 431 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, ObserverWith a new introduction by Tessa HadleyNanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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