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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 a...

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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, Tippi...

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We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you. Sue, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves - fingersmiths - in London's Borough. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing ...

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London 1922. Kriget har vänt upp och ner på allt och svept med sig pojkar och män. De kvinnor som nu måste leva vidare gör det i en helt ny värld som också bjuder nya friheter I ett stort hus i den burgna Londonförorten Camberwell bor Frances Wray...

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Hösten 1947 vandrar en ensam kvinna i eleganta manskläder genom det krigshärjade London. Under kriget var hon ambulansförare, nu är hennes liv betydligt mindre dramatiskt. Kay har fått se saker som ingen borde behöva se, och liksom för de flesta s...

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Ute på landsbygden i Warwickshire ligger Hundreds Hall, omgiven av parker och trädgårdar. En gång en av de största och mest imponerande georgianska byggnaderna i trakten, och den välbärgade familjen Ayres hem i över tvåhundra år. Men tiden har gåt...

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London 1922. Kriget har vänt upp och ner på allt och svept med sig pojkar och män. De kvinnor som nu måste leva vidare gör det i en helt ny värld som också bjuder nya friheter I ett stort hus i den burgna Londonförorten Camberwell bor Frances Wray...

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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...

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';Erotic and absorbingWritten with startling power.'The New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a f...

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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 Lo...

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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 a...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE This novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant 'page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the verge of great change' (Guardian) It is 1922, and L...

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'Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination . . . Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens' Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Daily TelegraphSet in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s, Affinity...

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A pulse-quickening read by the author of "Tipping the Velvet, Affinity" is a sophisticated and spine-tingling historical mystery awash with the sights, scenes, and smells of 19th-century London. This spellbinding ghost story has left Bri...

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'Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination . . . Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens' Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Daily Telegraph Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s, Affinit...

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The book that inspired Park Chan-wook's astonishing film The Handmaiden.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker PrizeLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care...

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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 ste...

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London 1922. Kriget har vänt upp och ner på allt och svept med sig pojkar och män. De kvinnor som nu måste leva vidare gör det i en helt ny värld - som också bjuder nya friheter ... I ett stort hus i den burgna Londonförorten Camberwell bor France...

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London 1922. Kriget har vänt upp och ner på allt och svept med sig pojkar och män. De kvinnor som nu måste leva vidare gör det i en helt ny värld ? som också bjuder nya friheter ? I ett stort hus i den burgna Londonförorten Camberwell bor Frances ...

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"Dancing with Mr. Darcy" is an anthology of winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Austen's arrival in the village of Chawton, where she spent the most productive years of her liter...

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What a wonderful collection! Each story is like a little treasure just waiting to be unwrapped, bringing its own unique and engaging perspective to the Austen mythos. A real treat for Jane Austen fans.Syrie James, bestselling author of The Lost Me...

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (18371915), Victorian Englands bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian humor with chilling suspense in this exuberantly campy (Kirkus Reviews) mystery. The novel features Jabez North, a manipulative orphan who becomes a ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZEThis novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant 'page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the verge of great change' (Guardian)It is 1922, and Lon...

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'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary...

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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, Tippi...

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The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevan...

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