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  • Canberra Tales

    Stories

    Serier Bog 61 - Untapped
    ‘This book is a collective effort. In 1980 some of the writers met for the first time to form a writers’ group. The group, “Seven Writers”, now flourishes and gives each member the necessary support and critical encouragement to develop her own and the others’ work. When the group formed no one had published more than a few short stories or poems.’ — From the Introduction to Canberra Tales, first ... Læs mere

    55,06 kr.

  • Far from a Low Gutter Girl

    The forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940

    Serier Bog 32 - Untapped
    Drawing on the letters of girls who were made state wards, acclaimed writer and historian Margaret Barbalet’s Far From a Low Gutter Girl reveals the real world of Australian domestic servants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, amplifying their voices for the first time.Far from a Low Gutter Girl was first published to critical acclaim in 1983. In addition to non-fiction, ... Læs mere

    55,06 kr.

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    'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph

    'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'A miracle.' Wall Street Journal*Winner of the RSL Encore Award****Longlisted for the Booker Prize*November 1944.** A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant.</p... ... Læs mere

    86,25 kr.

  • Last Woman Hanged

    Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins.In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced ... Læs mere

    120,19 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • OxCrimes

    Introduced by Ian Rankin

    For 2014, Oxfam and Profile have turned to crime in order to raise a further £200,000 for Oxfam's work.OxCrimes is introduced by Ian Rankin and has been curated by Peter Florence, director of Hay Festival, where it will be launched in May. The stellar cast of contributors will include Mark Billingham, Alexander McCall Smith, Anthony Horowitz, Val McDermid, Peter James, Adrian McKinty, Denise Mina, ... Læs mere

    53,71 kr.

  • Charles Dickens

    A Life

    Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography of Britain’s greatest novelist by bestselling author Claire Tomalin, author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self and Jane Austen: A Life‘Powerful and remarkable. It is a celebration of a great genius. No question: you put Tomalin’s book down knowing that you have met a living author’ Miriam Margolyes, The Times‘By far the most humane and ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • Servants

    A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain

    'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, GuardianGlorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily TelegraphServants is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard class offers ... Læs mere

    171,26 kr.

  • Moment on the Edge, A

    100 Years of Crime Stories by Women

    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century's worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night. Some of the works included are:"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan ... Læs mere

    93,73 kr.

  • What Alice Knew

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    'Intriguing ... an impressive debut'Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door'It made me look at marriage in a different light'Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife'T. A. Cotterell masterfully conjures up the suffocating atmosphere that envelopes the couple as they navigate the mental trauma of maintaining a complex web of lies ... An intriguing, well-constructed... ... Læs mere

    77,41 kr.

  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    “We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and ... Læs mere

    113,12 kr.

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    af Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Læs mere

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  • The Anatomy of Murder

    A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand… Seven of the world’s greatest crime ... Læs mere

    90,41 kr.