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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
28.00 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
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
39.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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 Night Watch by Sarah Waters
34.99 NZD
Category: General fiction
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 Night Watch by Sarah Waters
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: General fiction
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 Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
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