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An Episode of Sparrows - A Virago Modern Classic

FOREWORD BY JACQUELINE WILSON When two people say the same word it can mean two different things: to Angela they were sparrows because th...

Black Narcissus

'You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad . . .' High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop...

Breakfast with the Nikolides - A Virago Modern Classic

INTRODUCED BY ROSIE THOMAS Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood . . . For Emily Pool, India is a ...

Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy - A Virago Modern Classic

As she moved away towards the chapel a puff of wind caught her veil, blowing it back, and they saw she had a scar on her left cheek . . ....

Holly und Ivy - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte

Wie mächtig der Wunsch eines kleinen Mädchens und der einer Puppe wirken können, erzählt diese zauberhafte Geschichte. Alle möglichen Hin...

In this House of Brede - A Virago Modern Classic

[large quote] 'People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in...

Sélection du Livre - Sélection du Reader's Digest (Prémiere Edition): Malevil - Kizzy, la petite gitane - La femme-piége - Les rois de la valse

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita - A Virago Modern Classic

INTRODUCED BY ANITA DESAI It might have been anywhere; it was simply a place where two opposing forces were to meet, as two armies meet o...

The Dark Horse - A Virago Modern Classic

'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 continuo...

The River - A Virago Modern Classic

INTRODUCED BY ANITA DESAI [quote here] Harriet is caught between two worlds. Her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is sti...

Unser Sommer im Mirabellengarten

Die meisten Leute erleben in einem ganzen Leben nicht, was den fünf Geschwistern in diesem einen heißen Sommer in Vieux-Moutiers widerfäh...

Unser Sommer im Mirabellengarten - Roman

Die meisten Leute erleben in einem ganzen Leben nicht, was den fu¿nf Geschwistern in diesem einen heißen Sommer widerfährt. Ihre Mutter i...