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Affinity by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some ' ...Show more
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -- fingersmiths -- for whom t ...Show more
Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"A triumph: spellbinding, profound and almost problematically addictive.... Morally complex, atmospheric, romantic and psychologically deep, The Paying Guests is an astonishing achievement and a notable Booker omission." --Daily Express (UK)The year is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disill ...Show more
The Back of the Painting: Secrets & Stories From Art Conservation by Linda Waters & Sarah Hillary & Jenny Sherman
45.00 NZD
Category: Art and Design
Behind the scenes with the experts on famous paintings. The seal of the Prince of Yugoslavia, the icon that protected persecuted Russians, Monet's repurposed canvas, the excised first wife, the stolen Tissot ... all these stories can be found on the backs of paintings in New Zealand art museums. This ...Show more
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
38.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker prize. After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote The Night Watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to numbe ...Show more
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 * 'Sarah Waters has worked a spell' GUARDIAN
The Little Stranger (Film Tie-In) by Sarah Waters
21.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel In a dusty post- ...Show more
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn ...Show more
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a res ...Show more
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
39.99 (30% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wr ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago V S. | Reading Level: very good
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - ...Show more
Tipping the Velvet - out of print by Sarah Waters
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the bawdy music halls of the late 19th century, Nan is captivated by Kitty Butler, a male impersonator. She manages to meet her heroine and soon after becomes her dresser. Heading for the bright lights of London they form a double act while privately, a love affair begins.
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