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A Dangerous Vine by Barbara Ewing
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Margaret, like her elder sister Elizabeth, was named after an English princess. But Elizabeth is dead and Margaret is still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. She embarks on a Maori degree and enters an enchanting new world of colour, passion and even violence.
A Dangerous Vine by Barbara Ewing
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zea ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
Rosetta by Barbara Ewing
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
As a child, Rosetta is fascinated by words and loves being told stories. She thinks she is named after the Princess Rosetta of the fairytales, who married the King of the Peacocks and lived happily ever after. But when she finds that it is a mysterious small port town in Egypt that gave her her name, he ...Show more
The Actresses by Barbara Ewing
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
They all met again at the Drama School Reunion: the Hollywood celebrity, the out-of-work soap star, the understudy, the Shakespearian hero, the plodding small part player. Thirty-six years ago the Academy's principal spoke of the great parts awaiting them. What he did not say, was that before they reach ...Show more
The Actresses by Barbara Ewing
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The life of an actress is never dull. But what happens when you reach fifty? If you're an actor, the work pours in; if you're an actress, suddenly the wrinkles start showing and your agent stops calling. So it seems to this group of thespians, now all in their fifties, meeting for a drama-school reunion ...Show more
The Circus of Ghosts by Barbara Ewing
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the m ...Show more
The Fraud by Barbara Ewing
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings are run smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, Franc ...Show more
The Fraud by Barbara Ewing
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings run so smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, France ...Show more
The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Unable to find stage work, actresses Cordelia Preston and Rillie Spoons need to find a way of making a living. Cordelia remembers the skills of her aunt and sets out to be a phreno-mesmerist, advising couples on their compatibility and enlightening women on The Gentle Intricacies of the Wedding Night'. ...Show more
The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing
26.99 NZD
49.99 (46% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Mesmerist Ser.
London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. ...Show more
The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
22.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young widow Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. It is Mattie who admires their sparkling gowns, makes their extravagant hats and laughs at their stories of attending society balls dressed up as the glamorous ...Show more