Found in the Street - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Found in the Street - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and

Glass Cell - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can

Dog's Ransom - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Highsmith blends savage humour with brilliant social satire in this dark

Small g: A Summer Idyll - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love

Little Tales of Misogyny - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Seventeen menacing spine-chillers full of Patricia Highsmith's trademark simmering

Deep Water - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern

Deep Water - A Virago Modern Classic (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback)

In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of

Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks

The never-seen-before diaries and notebooks of Patricia Highsmith, author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY and CAROL Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks offer an unforgettable insight into the life and mind of one of the twentieth

Talented Mr Ripley (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Patricia Highsmith reveals her secrets for producing world-class crime and

Fugue in Time - A Virago Modern Classic (Godden Rumer)(Paperback / softback)

Rumer Godden's classic wartime love story is a dramatic tale that was the basis for the film Enchantment starring David

China Court - A Virago Modern Classic (Godden Rumer)(Paperback / softback)

Rumer Godden's classic novel China Court, first published in the 1960s, is a compelling story of a century of love, ambition and

Switzerland (Murray-Smith Joanna)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping psychological thriller. 1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, hides away in her study. A young man turns up, to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley. It soon becomes clear that

All the Beautiful Lies (Swanson Peter)(Paperback / softback)

In a dark and brilliant guessing game of a novel - evoking Patricia Highsmith and Agatha Christie - Peter Swanson once again displays his unique gift for lovingly reprising and refreshing mystery writing's greatest

Up The Junction - A Virago Modern Classic (Dunn Nell)(Paperback / softback)

Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the same

Flung Out of Space - Grace Ellis

A fictionalized account of infamous author, Patricia Highsmith, caught up in the longing and obsession that would inspire her groundbreaking work of queer fiction, The Price of SaltFlung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel The Price of Salt and an examination of its

Public Image - A Virago Modern Classic (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn't be more relevant for today's celebrity-obsessed culture. This is Spark at her wittiest, wickedest

Charioteer - A Virago Modern Classic (Renault Mary)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room as a landmark work in gay

Friendly Young Ladies - A Virago Modern Classic (Renault Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A sparkling, unconventional social comedy set in bohemian 1930s

Mandelbaum Gate - A Virago Modern Classic (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when first published in 1965, The Mandelbaum Gate is among Muriel Spark's most accomplished

The Black House (Highsmith Patricia)(Paperback)

Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white

Listen to the Nightingale - A Virago Modern Classic (Godden Rumer)(Paperback / softback)

Rumer Godden's enchanting classic about a girl who overcomes the odds to become a ballet dancer will thrill young

Bull from the Sea - A Virago Modern Classic (Renault Mary)(Paperback / softback)

The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from