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The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was ...? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret That ...Show more
The Child's Child by Barbara Vine
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | 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
$15.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | 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 Minotaur by Barbara VIne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall ...Show more
The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the str ...Show more
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