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Virago Modern Classics Are Thirty

VMCs celebrate milestone

VMC brochure

2008 is the 30th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics. To celebrate this occasion, we’ve produced a stunning set of eight hardbacks, featuring cover artwork by twentieth-century women textile designers, including Lucienne Day, Cath Kidston, Orla Kiely, Celia Birtwell, and founder of Biba, Barbara Hulanicki.

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84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Staff pick

It's lost in the mists of time how this book first came to me -- I think all booksellers are handed it when they start their career, or they should be.

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Catch 22

Catch 22

Joseph Heller Read by Trevor White

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a...

Audiobook (CD): £27.00

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Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov Read by Jeremy Irons

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'

Audiobook (CD): £25.00

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Angel (film tie-in)

Angel (film tie-in)

Elizabeth Taylor

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined...

Paperback: £7.99

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84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff Read by Juliet Stevenson and John Nettles

INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS

Audiobook (CD): £14.99

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Rebecca

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

Paperback: £7.99

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Jane and Prudence

Jane and Prudence

Barbara Pym Introduced by Jilly Cooper

Over the years, as Barbara Pym replaced Nancy Mitford, Georgette Heyer, even Jane Austen, as my most loved author, I devoured all her books, but JANE AND PRUDENCE remains my favourite. Even an...

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