Only the simplest airfields are designed for operations conducted under visual meteorological conditions (VMC).
I'm not overawed, but I can at least see why Virago's Donna Coonan describes it as the "the inspiration for the entire VMC list", and why - as she explains - Carmen Callil "loved it so much that she almost obsessively wondered how she could publish it.
VMC Systems, in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, which has been working with DataWind since late last year, confirmed that it was manufacturing tablets for the company but did not provide any further information.
It's easy to see why VMC chose Christina Stead's work as the third book in their series.
"The nature of the leak having had occurred through Xbox One, actually also went against the Microsoft EULA, which is agreed upon when creating an Xbox LIVE account, or any other type of Microsoft account," the company, VMC, wrote.
My copy of Novel on Yellow Paper was - is - a green-spined Virago Modern Classic, number 27 in the original VMC library.
As Julie Burchill puts it in her introduction to Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (proudly a VMC since 2003): 'Unlike other things which seemed like a great idea at the time, but are revealed as pure folly with the wisdom of age - lovebites and Trotskyism spring immediately to mind - books are becoming at any age.
The post was intended as a one-off affair - I'd recently read an article by Jonathan Coe praising the VMC collection, and my only thought was to second him.
And the thrill of reading a particularly great one, though cheap, doesn't wear off.' Rachel Cooke's top 10 Modern Classics Frost in May Antonia White The first VMC.
Hermione Lee - favourite VMC: The Professor's House by Willa Cather - agrees.
