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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$28.00 NZD
Category: 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
The Back of the Painting: Secrets & Stories From Art Conservation by Linda Waters & Sarah Hillary & Jenny Sherman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art + 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 * 'Sarah Waters has worked a spell' GUARDIAN
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
$28.00 NZD
Category: 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
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago V S.
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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