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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
Fingersmith (Hachette Essentials) by Sarah Waters
$16.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Hachette Essentials
Available for the first time in Canada, arrives the thrilling Dickensian novel from the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and The Paying Guests.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 ...Show more
Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
"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 Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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 Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
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