virago great britain (78 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dj Has Sl. Edgewear/Shelfwear, Price Intact. Book Has V. Sl. Wear, Else Well Cared For. 529 Pp. Large Volume, May Require Extra Postage For Overseas Or Expedited Shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. A nice, bright copy. ; 8.2 X 5.2 X 0.9 inches; 293 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have light wear and light toning.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have very light wear and light toning.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have very light wear.

Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Condition: Wie neu. Englische Erstausgabe. First Imprint. 183 pages. Paperback. 21,5 cm. Very Good. Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. When love enters Tranby Quirke's life in the form of a beautiful 19-year-old student, Lysette McDonald, she embarks on the most remarkable journey of all. London: 1909. Thirty-four-year-old spinster and secret suffragette Tranby Quirke spends her days toiling in obscurity as a lecturer to modern women and spends her nights embarking on exotic foreign adventuresbut only inside her head. Then love enters Tranby's life in the most unexpected of ways and her real life adventures take her on a journey beyond imagining. - Elizabeth Ridley was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she fell in love with books at the age of six. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a master's degree in creative writing from The University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, where she studied under now-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. In 1994 she received a Hawthornden Fellowship to Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland. Before turning to writing full-time Liz's many unorthodox jobs included stints as a meat slicer in Milwaukee, a nanny in London, a cherry harvester in Norway, and a houseparent for handicapped teens in rural Wales. Since 2001, she has owned and operated "The Writer's Midwife," a home-based freelance critiquing, editing, and publishing consultation business. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Sue Darlow (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Sita was born in a small village in northern India in 1958., the youngest daughter of a large family. From an early age Sita knew that her parents would one day choose a husband for her , that this was what they worked and prayed for and what she herself depended on for status and security in adulthood. But that day came sooner than she expected , and at the age of fifteen Sita left India to travel alone to England , where she met Nirmal , her future husband , for the first time. The marriage was a terrible , tragic mistake. Nirmal beat her and abused her , and forbade her the freedom and financial independence which she yearned for in order to establish frienda and self-dignity in her new country. Her health , vitality and confidence suffered dreadfully. By the age of nineteen she had two young children to care for as well . and it required a supreme effort of courage and determination for Sita to escape the marriage and begin life afresh as a single woman. Her story , simply and movingly told to her friend Rachel Barton , is a devastating account of the hidden suffering of a young Indian woman in contemporary Britain.This book has been read and there are light corner creases to the bottom corners.There is some mild shelf wear. The spine is firm. This is a very good reading copy. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Jane Furst (illustrator). Seventeen stories deal with motherhood, creativity, music, possession, identity, and the Dybbuk, an invading soul 147 pages. Tanning to pages. Cover has a few creases. Cover edges rubbed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0860687163. ISBN/EAN: 9780860687160. Inventory No: 250570.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mills, Jane WOMANWORDS London,GB: Virago Press 1991 VG: 290pp 8vo. The white paper wrap has a colourful illustrated cover. Some wear along the edges and corners. The interior pages are clean and clear. The binding is solid. This book is in very good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. The page has a small pen dedication from the previous owner. 206 pages with black and white photographs and illustrations. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

broschierte Ausgabe. Roman mit 312 Seiten, Sprache en, Guter Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 390.

20x13. Tapa blanda. 378 pgs. Canto amarillento. Firma en portadilla. Texto en inglés. 691995.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment -- enough, already. Who have I been kidding? Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. To be an artist is, she is sure, her real destiny. Then one day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's parents are on a year-long visit from Paris: Skandar, his father, has a fellowship at Harvard; Sirena, his mother, is a glamorous installation artist apparently on the brink of huge success. For that magical year, Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. As it turns out, her liberation from the benign shackles of her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined. 304 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781844087327. Inventory No: 268573.

Softcover. Condition: Good. THE HOUSE IN SOUTH ROAD evokes in marvellously vivid colours, the ordinary story of an extraordinary working-class woman's life. In this new edition of Joyce Storey's autobiography, the previous three editions are amalgamated and the complete story of her life is told. Born near Bristol in 1917, Joyce began her autobiography at age 66. THE HOUSE IN SOUTH ROAD follows her pre-war life in Bristol, an era of corset and chocolate factories, of 'service' and glamorous silent movies. With a brilliant eye for the comic in the tragic Joyce unfolds her experiences at school, her first job, her first love and a mismatched marriage. During the war Joyce is a mother of two and her RAF husband is rarely on leave. She fights on the home front; air raids, in-laws, machine work and poverty. After the war Joyce begins to enjoy the luxury of a prefab house, first holidays, the growing independence of her four children, but suffers a breakdown in her marriage and her husband's final illness. With humour and intelligence Joyce Storey charts a good deal of the 20th Century. 436 pages. Pages browned. Cover edges rubbed. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1844080463. ISBN/EAN: 9781844080465. Inventory No: 266098.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Mende Nazer had an idyllic early childhood with her loving family in a small village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, until she was brutally kidnapped by the Mujahidin. She was kept as a domestic slave by a woman in Khartoum without any pay or a single day off. Mende endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. In the spring of 2000 Mende was passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London. Eventually she managed to make contact with other Nuba exiles who, with British journalist and filmmaker Damien Lewis, helped her escape to freedom. In 2002 she was awarded the Human Rights Award by CECRA, the Spanish Coalition Against Slavery for her work in making slavery a public issue. 322 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1844081141. ISBN/EAN: 9781844081141. Inventory No: 262535.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama. 637 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1860498809. ISBN/EAN: 9781860498800. Inventory No: 257397.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. .Slight foxing to edge. Slight wear to cover. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear, with a clipped inside flap. The page edges are tanned and lightly foxed. 372 pages with black and white plates. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback 000612741X The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean 253pp couple of marks to cover prev owners name inside(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback Athabasca by Alistair MacLean 0006162665 252pp We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback.0006154964 Seawitch (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback0006169112 Amsterdam Airport has disappeared. The mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF - an Irish terrorist group who want to force Britain's hand. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The bond between mother and son is crucial, and in this book 7 mothers and 7 sons describe their own experiences, some gingerly and some with great anger. There are contributions from Father Seed, Jon Snow and Spike Milligan. 262 pages. Spine slightly slanted. Light foxing to outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Family & Relationships::Relationships; Family & Relationships; ISBN: 1860492541. ISBN/EAN: 9781860492549. Inventory No: 272337.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. 327 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sociology; Sociology & Culture; ISBN/EAN: 9781844086825. Inventory No: 262888.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. A wry and humorous account of the author's quest to get her Iranian passport renewed. She embarks on a bizarre and circuitous journey, meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way: two photographers who specialise in Islamic portraits, a forensic surgeon who trades in human organs, a madam who wants to send prostitutes to Dubai and a grandmother who offers a live chicken to an implacable official. TEHRAN, LIPSTICK AND LOOPHOLES is a fascinating look at the constraints and contradictions of contemporary life in Tehran from the author's unique standpoint of being both a native of Iran and a foreigner. 247 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; travel. ISBN/EAN: 9781844085132. Inventory No: 261362.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 9th Impression. Paperback. Artists in Crime. A Roderick Alleyn Mystery. Cover is of a painting with a knife on top with blood. It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artiast and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in ernest. The model will never move again. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Fontana Edition. Paperback. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Couple of slight creases to cover. This book is a collection of Ludovic Kennedy's favourite train-journey literature - some of it famous, some quite unknown, but all of it informative, amusing, delightful or amazing. The anthology takes us on a round-the-world tour, through 155 years of train travel. It conjures up grand old trains and historic journeys; recalls horrific wartime adventures and spectacular crashes; and dwells on the romance of rail travel - its unlikely encounters, unexpected events. 359 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ninth Impression. King Arthurs Avalon the Story of Glastonbury. of its traditions for the growth of national consciousness; the importance of its legends for the mystical theory of the grail, a significant factor in European religious thought. 315 pp illustrated . (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Impession. PaperbackFillets of Plaice Slight foxing to end pages and edge. 'Delightful. A collection of scattered and dotty reminiscences' (Sunday Mirror) 189 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).