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A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a w ...Show more
Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere jou ...Show more
Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and ex ...Show more
The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensat ...Show more
The Child's Child by Barbara Vine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Reading Level: good
When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: They've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've ...Show more
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves beh ...Show more
The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'In a masterly and hypnotic synthesis of past, present and terrifying future, Vine casts a stone into her dark pond and lets the ripples spread . . . she has created a work that is both compelling and disturbing'. Sunday Times. 'This is the third psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara ...Show more
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