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An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
26.95 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Reading Level: very good
An Episode of Sparrows (Modern Classic) by Rumer Godden
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
24.95 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
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics
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 Dolls' House by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family is owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and they are very happy, except for one thing: they long for a proper home. To their delight, their wish comes true when Emily and Charlotte fix up a Victorian dol ...Show more
The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family is owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and they are very happy, except for one thing: they long for a proper home. To their delight, their wish comes true when Emily and Charlotte fix up a Victorian doll ...Show more
The Fairy Doll by Rumer Godden
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Elizabeth is enchanted by the beautiful fairy doll that sits at the top of the Christmas tree wearing a sparkly beaded dress and delicate silver shoes. Little Elizabeth could never be so perfect - she is always getting into trouble. Then Great-Grandma gives Fairy Doll to Elizabeth - and suddenly everyth ...Show more
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A tense, evocative, portrait of love and deceit set during one long hot summer in France, The Greengage Summer is a hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story by from Rumer Godden, the author of Black Narcissus, a major BBC drama series.When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are ...Show more