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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Raised by a loving family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder is sheltered from the worst of the Victorian underworld until it becomes her turn to make the clan's fortune. She must help a professional rogue named Gentleman marry an heiress and then steal the girl's inheritance by declaring her insane. Sue wa ...Show more
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$24.99 AUD
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 Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
$23.99 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, "The Night Watch" tells the story of four Londoners-three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tra ...Show more
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'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 set in the 'roaring' 1890s, Tipping the Velvet follows the gl ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$22.99 AUD
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
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