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A Dark-adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to ...Show more
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a w ...Show more
Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Blood is going to be its theme ... Blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood as the transmitter of hereditary disease. Genes, we'd say now, but not in the nineteenth century when Henry Nanther was born and grew up and achieved a kind of greatness, not then. It was ...Show more
Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
21.95 NZD
24.00 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and ex ...Show more
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin audiobooks
Drawn together by their connection to the London Underground, Jarvis and his tenants, Tom, Jed, Alice and Axel, live in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the Jubilee line. This nightmarish vision of London is a story of interwoven destinies.
The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensat ...Show more
The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
37.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was ...? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret That ...Show more
The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
54.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lord Nanther embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria and an expert on blood diseases. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave.
The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband.
The Child's Child by Barbara Vine
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: They've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've ...Show more
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
12.99 NZD
13.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves beh ...Show more
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
28.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact, he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had ...Show more