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The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Set in and around a country railway station at the turn of the twentieth century, the plight of the railway children grappling with their new environment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience while losing nothing of the original spirit of humour, tension, adventure and the final triumph ...Show more
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wa ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'She put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key, and found it fitted the keyhole . . . she held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly. Then she slipped through it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement and wonder and delight. She was standin ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more