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An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Episode of Sparrows (Modern Classic) by Rumer Godden
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Square. Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of local boys is to blame, but her sister, Olivia, isn't so sure. She wonders why the neighbourhood children - 'sparrows', she calls them - have to be locked out: don't they have ...Show more
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace, richly dressed ladies wandered the windswept terraces; at night, music floated out over the villages and gorges. Now, the General's son has bestowed it on an order of nuns, th ...Show more
Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) (HB) by Rumer Godden
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A remarkable novel. One in a thousand' - ObserverHigh in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General's harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what wa ...Show more
Breakfast with the Nikolides by Rumer Godden
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home ...Show more
Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus returns again to her beloved India with a novel brimming with heart, wit, unforgettable characters, and 'a sense of timelessness reminiscent of E. M. Forster' (The Times).Hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests during her m ...Show more
In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
“A novel of sensitive dedication.” —The Atlantic Monthly“Rumer Godden deals precisely with the theme of the religious life . . . as representing 'the heart of holiness of the Church.' It is at once a life of great peace and often equally intense struggle.” —America magazineThis extraordinarily sensitive ...Show more
Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Sophie, an English ingenue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compete f ...Show more
Listen to the Nightingale (Virago Modern Classics) by Rumer Godden
21.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Never forget, Charlotte, you were born to be a dancer ...Never forget. Promise.' Before her ballet teacher died, Lottie promised Madame Holbein to be the dancer her mother never lived to become. Orphaned at birth, Lottie has been brought up by her aunt, and though she is loved, she is lonely. Then she ...Show more
Little Plum by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
When Gem moves into The House Next Door, Nona and Belinda think she's stuck up and vow to have nothing to do with her. But the beautiful Japanese doll in her window soon attracts their attention. They name her Little Plum because of the plum blossom decorating her clothes - but unlike Nona's Japanese do ...Show more
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
When little Nona is sent from her sunny home in India to live with her relatives in chilly England, she is miserable. Then a box arrives for her in the post and inside, wrapped up in tissue paper, are two little Japanese dolls. A slip of paper says their names are Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Nona th ...Show more
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
When their mother leaves the country to be with her lover, Hugh and Caddie Clavering's seemingly perfect life falls apart. Devestated, and desperate for her to come back, the children travel alone to the Villa Fiorita on Lake Garda, determined not to leave without her. On arrival, they can tell Fanny an ...Show more