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Frenchman's Creek (FS) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedom, honest love - and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. To escape the shallowness of court life, Dona retreats to ...Show more
Golden Lads by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Biography & Memoir
Prior to the publication of this biography, the elusive Anthony Bacon was merely glimpsed in the shadow of his famous younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who cluster
Hungry Hill by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Audio Books
'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power o ...Show more
Hungry Hill by Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of ...Show more
I'll Never Be Young Again by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under ... I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slo ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mother's dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inn's brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her un ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Her mother's dying request obliges Mary Yellan to make a grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. With the coachman's warning echoing in her mind and affected by the inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her i ...Show more
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge there, with her Aunt Patience. But when Mary arrives, the warning of the coachman echoes in her mind: Jamaica Inn has a desolate power, and behind it's crumbling walls Patience i ...Show more
Julius by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. 'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wi ...Show more
MY COUSIN RACHEL by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
Category: Classic Fiction
From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.