Sarah Waters – författare

From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author'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 - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.'Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review'An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties' Independent on Sunday'Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit' Observer

From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secretsLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment Sue draws breath, her fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away. 'A page turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story' Adam Kay'Intensely atmospheric, impeccably paced, and cunningly structured' Mail on Sunday'A chilling, ingenious erotic thriller - unputdownable' Sunday Express'Long, dark, twisted and satisfying... An unforgettable experience' Julie Myerson, Guardian

'Sarah Waters' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary MantelIn a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace with a changing society. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. 'The #1 book of the year . . . several sleepless nights are guaranteed' Stephen King'Chilling . . . a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem' Kate Mosse'Not only is it tremendously rich, it's an absolute treat to read - the kind of thing you desperately want to finish and then feel bereft when you do' Bridget Collins'Waters has determined to scare the pants off her rightly devoted audience. She succeeds unquivocally' Erica Wagner, The Times'A brilliantly observed story, verging on the comedy, about Britain on the cusp of modern age' Independent on Sunday

The number one bestseller, a tender and tragic story set against the turbulence of wartime LondonThe Night Watch us the extraordinary story of four Londoners: Kay, who wanders the streets in mannish clothes, restless and searching... Helen, who harbours a troubling secret... Viv, a glamour girl, recklessly loyal to her soldier lover... and Duncan, an apparent innocent, struggling with demons of his own.Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liaisons and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is an astonishing novel.'Burns with a slow but scorching intensity' Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday'Beautifully written, deeply moving and utterly engrossing' Elle'Waters is an author to cherish, and this is probably her finest achievement yet' Justine Jordan, Guardian 'Terrific narrative tension' Daily Mail

An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.' From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you'll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic.'Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism' Independent on Sunday'Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written' Val Hennessy 'Beautifully, atmospherically written, this is a tale to thrill your very soul' Metro'Sexy, spooky, stylish... a wonderful book' Guardian

'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' GuardianIt is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', bring with them gramophone music, colour, fun - and dangerous desires. The most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama... A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.'Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling' Tracy Chevalier, Observer'You will be hooked within a page' Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times'Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' New Statesman'An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives' Sunday Times

'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 terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat.'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 Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all a wonderful, compelling story.

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 MantelIn a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.

I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever you do don’t mention that, like it never happened.It’s the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war.In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombed-out church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together.Sarah Waters’s story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a dazed and shattered post-war Britain back into the heart of the Blitz, towards the secrets that are hidden there.Olivier-nominated playwright Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a great modern novel.The stage adaptation of The Night Watch was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 2016.

The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the coming era. Yet, it is in France that globalisation has produced the deepest tensions, and it is here that it has generated its greatest political resistance. The author pursues two separate lines of enquiry. First, she considers the influence of French political tradition and an enduring legacy of republicanism in shaping contemporary opposition. If globalisation poses a greater ideological threat in France than elsewhere, this is because it comes into conflict with the foundational values and symbols of the FrenchRepublic. Secondly, she examines contemporary French opposition as a site for political and ideological renewal. Many critics now agree that it is within this emergent movement, rather than within traditional parties, that new forms of political practice and ideology are being invented.

It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she’ll fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl who wears trousers.Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await.Sarah Waters' debut novel, Tipping the Velvet was highly acclaimed and was chosen by The New York Times and The Library Journal as one of the best books of 1998. Reviewers have offered the most praise for Tipping the Velvet's use of humour, adventure, and sexual explicitness. The novel was adapted into a somewhat controversial three-part series of the same name produced and broadcast by the BBC in 2002.

This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.

This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize'Brilliantly done . . . the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on SundayMoving 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 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 restless hunger, searching . . . Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret . . . Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover . . . Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances . . . Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.

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. 'Erotic and absorbing . . . Written with startling power' New York Times Book ReviewNan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.

'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 is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist - Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions.

Published in conjunction with Chawton House, Dancing With Mr Darcy is an anthology of the winning entries to the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House - a place where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The intention of the prize is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House.

The 1968 events were profoundly international in character, transcending any one national context and interacting with other movements across the world. Yet the way these events are remembered is often delimited by the national cultural or political experience and is cut off from its broader international dimension. The purpose of this volume is to examine the ‘memory’ of 1968 across different national settings, looking at the cases of France, Germany, Italy, the United States, Mexico and China. How has 1968 been (re)produced and/or contested within different national cultures and how do these processes reflect national preoccupations with order, political violence, individual freedom, youth culture and self-expression? How has the memory of 1968 been narrated, framed and interpreted in different places and in different disciplines? Is there a collective memory of 1968 and does this memory cross national boundaries? By juxtaposing representations of 1968 from across a range of national cultures and by examining the processes by which 1968 is remembered, this book aims to open up the memory of 1968 to a more diverse international perspective, one that more closely reflects the dynamics of the events themselves. The papers collected in this volume are selected from the proceedings of a conference entitled ‘Memories of 1968: International Perspectives’ that was held at the University of Leeds in 2008.

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 med sin mor, mrs Wray. Deras liv har förändrats drastiskt. Familjens män har stupat och för att klara hyran blir mor och dotter nu tvungna att ta in hyresgäster. Ett ungt par ur den lägre tjänstemannaklassen, Lilian och Leonard Barber, flyttar in. In kommer den nya världen och dess sociala spänningar. Och när Frances, som är en modern kvinna med moderna idéer om kärlek, kommer allt närmare Lilian, påbörjas ett kammarspel som ska explodera med oförutsedda konsekvenser som följd.

Sarah Waters är tillbaka med en mästerlig roman om passion, svartsjuka och brott i tjugotalets London. Hyresgästerna är en bladvändare av en världsförfattare i sitt absoluta esse.Sarah Waters (född 1966) är författare till sex historiska romaner och debuterade 1998 med Kyssa sammet. De senaste två böckerna, Nattvakten och Främlingen i huset, är nu åter aktuella i pocket. Waters har nominerats till Bookerpriset tre gånger. Samtliga romaner finns utgivna på svenska av Natur & Kultur.

"Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida … Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning."FINANCIAL TIMES

"Waters, en författare på höjden av sin förmåga, spinner en fascinerande berättelse om klass, sexualitet och konsekvenserna av en passionerad kärleksaffär. Romanens andra del är så enastående oförutsägbar och så gastkramande nervig att den håller läsaren i ovisshet intill det allra sista stycket."THE BOOKSELLER

Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida … Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning

Financial Times

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 med sin mor, mrs Wray. Deras liv har förändrats drastiskt. Familjens män har stupat och för att klara hyran blir mor och dotter nu tvungna att ta in hyresgäster. Ett ungt par ur den lägre tjänstemannaklassen, Lilian och Leonard Barber, flyttar in. In kommer den nya världen och dess sociala spänningar. Och när Frances, som är en modern kvinna med moderna idéer om kärlek, kommer allt närmare Lilian, påbörjas ett kammarspel som ska explodera med oförutsedda konsekvenser som följd. Sarah Waters är tillbaka med en mästerlig roman om passion, svartsjuka och brott i tjugotalets London. Hyresgästerna är en bladvändare av en världsförfattare i sitt absoluta esse. Sarah Waters (född 1966) är författare till sex historiska romaner och debuterade 1998 med Kyssa sammet. De senaste två böckerna, Nattvakten och Främlingen i huset, är nu åter aktuella i pocket. Waters har nominerats till Bookerpriset tre gånger. Samtliga romaner finns utgivna på svenska av Natur & Kultur. Lo Kauppi är skådespelare, regissör, dramatiker och författare. Efter examen vid Teaterhögskolan fick hon sitt genombrott med den självbiografiska pjäsen Bergsprängardottern som exploderade och har därefter medverkat i många teater-, film- och TV-produktioner. Lo är även känd sångare och gitarrist i skapunkbandet Vagina Grande. "Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning." FINANCIAL TIMES "Waters, en författare på höjden av sin förmåga, spinner en fascinerande berättelse om klass, sexualitet och konsekvenserna av en passionerad kärleksaffär. Romanens andra del är så enastående oförutsägbar och så gastkramande nervig att den håller läsaren i ovisshet intill det allra sista stycket." THE BOOKSELLER Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning Financial Times

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 med sin mor, mrs Wray. Deras liv har förändrats drastiskt. Familjens män har stupat och för att klara hyran blir mor och dotter nu tvungna att ta in hyresgäster. Ett ungt par ur den lägre tjänstemannaklassen, Lilian och Leonard Barber, flyttar in. In kommer den nya världen och dess sociala spänningar. Och när Frances, som är en modern kvinna med moderna idéer om kärlek, kommer allt närmare Lilian, påbörjas ett kammarspel som ska explodera med oförutsedda konsekvenser som följd. Sarah Waters är tillbaka med en mästerlig roman om passion, svartsjuka och brott i tjugotalets London. Hyresgästerna är en bladvändare av en världsförfattare i sitt absoluta esse. Sarah Waters (född 1966) är författare till sex historiska romaner och debuterade 1998 med Kyssa sammet. De senaste två böckerna, Nattvakten och Främlingen i huset, är nu åter aktuella i pocket. Waters har nominerats till Bookerpriset tre gånger. Samtliga romaner finns utgivna på svenska av Natur & Kultur. Lo Kauppi är skådespelare, regissör, dramatiker och författare. Efter examen vid Teaterhögskolan fick hon sitt genombrott med den självbiografiska pjäsen Bergsprängardottern som exploderade och har därefter medverkat i många teater-, film- och TV-produktioner. Lo är även känd sångare och gitarrist i skapunkbandet Vagina Grande. "Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning." FINANCIAL TIMES "Waters, en författare på höjden av sin förmåga, spinner en fascinerande berättelse om klass, sexualitet och konsekvenserna av en passionerad kärleksaffär. Romanens andra del är så enastående oförutsägbar och så gastkramande nervig att den håller läsaren i ovisshet intill det allra sista stycket." THE BOOKSELLER Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning Financial Times