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du Maurier Novels
The Loving Spirit
Daphne's first novel - The Loving Spirit tells the tale of the Coombe family of Plyn Boat Yard. Set in 1900's Cornwall the yard is a hive of activity and Janet longs to share in the excitement of seafaring, constrained by the times she instead marries her cousin, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family. Based on the boat building family, the Slades of Polruan.
Introduction by Michèle Roberts.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Price: £9.99
I'll Never be Young Again
IIn a moment of crisis, Richard is saved by a passing stranger - Jake. The two men, both at turning points, become firm friends and on a whim set out for adventure jumping aboard the first ship they see. Their journeys take them to Norway and across Europe, cementing a passionate friendship. But it is in bohemian Paris that Richard finally meets the woman who enables him to fulfil his own artistic promise. Introduction by Elaine Dundy.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Julius
Julius Lévy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. Caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy. Julius is a chilling tale of ambition.
Introduced by Julie Myerson.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Jamaica Inn
Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. A dark tale of shipwrecking set on Bodmin Moor.
Introduction by Sarah Dunant.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Rebecca
Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. A haunting tale set on the Cornish coast, it tells of Mr & Mrs Maxim de Winter's lives at Manderley under the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the dead Rebecca.
Introduction by Sally Beauman.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Frenchman's Creek
Lady Dona St Columb is beautiful, headstrong - and bored. Desperate to escape the pomp and ritual of the Restoration Court, she retreats to the hidden creeks and secret woods of the family estate at Navron. Here she stumbles across the mooring place of a white-sailed ship that plunders the Cornish coast and her heart falls siege to the French philosopher-pirate Jean Aubrey.
Introduction by Julie Myerson.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Hungry Hill
The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by right. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence . . .
Introduction by Nina Auerbach.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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The King's General
Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General is set in the seventeenth century. It tells the story of a country and a family riven by war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. The story is based on the memoirs of Honor Harris, companion of Sir Richard Grenvile, Charles I's General in the West during the civil war of the 1600's.
Introduction by Justine Picardie.
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The Parasites
Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father a flamboyant singer, and their mother a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts.
Introduction by Julie Myerson.
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My Cousin Rachel
Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father a flamboyant singer, and their mother a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts.
Introduction by Julie Myerson.
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Mary Anne
When Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York. A vivid portrait of overweening ambition, Mary Anne is set during the Napoleonic Wars and based on du Maurier's own great-great-grandmother.
Introduction by Lisa Hilton.
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The Scapegoat
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupor. It is to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared.
Introduction by Lisa Appignanesi.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Castle Dor
A magical recreation of the Cornish legend of Tristan and Iseult. Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. The tale began as the unfinished last novel by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier for completion.
Introduction by Nina Bawden.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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The Glass-Blowers
The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, its own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass,' Pierre Labbé warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world.' But crashing into this world comes the French Revolution, against which the family struggle to survive. An imaginative, exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.
Introduction by Michelle de Kretser.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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The Flight of the Falcon
Armino Fabbio becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he learns, was his family's beloved servant many years ago. Over 500 years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life preying on the people of Ruffano. Now the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed?
With an introduction by Amanda Craig.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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The House on the Strand
When Dick Young's friend, Magnus, offers him an escape in the form of a new drug, Dick finds himself transported to the Cornish manor of Tywardreath in the 14th century. As Dick witnesses the intrigues of the court there, he withdraws from the modern world to spend more time in the past. But his attempts to change history bring terror to the present and throw his own life into the balance.
Introduction by Celia Brayfield.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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Rule Britannia
Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage.
Introduction by Ella Westland.
Paperback. Published by Virago.
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