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* The Orange Prize short-listed, Booker Prize short-listed, critically adored, third novel from Sarah Waters - reissued in with a stunning new jacket

This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on "Grease Paint Avenue," Nan follows as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after, dons trousers herself and joins the act. In time, Kitty breaks her heart, and Nan assumes the guise of butch roue to commence her own thrilling and varied sexual education - a sort of Moll Flanders in drag - finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places.Drawing comparison to the work of Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters' novel is a feast for the senses - an erotic, lushly detailed historical novel that bursts with life and dazzlingly casts the turn of the century in a different light.

“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.

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.

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

Soon to be a major motion film starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Charlotte Rampling. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.

An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House, 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. Chair of Judges is bestselling author Sarah Waters.

Sarah Waters, de bekroonde auteur van drie romans die zich afspelen in het Victoriaanse Londen, keert terug met een verbluffende roman die een afwijking van de negentiende eeuw markeert. Teruggaand naar de jaren veertig, door luchtaanvallen, verduisterde straten, verboden liefdes, seksuele avonturen, om te eindigen met het begin in 1941, is <i>The Night Watch</i> het werk van een werkelijk briljante en boeiende verhalenverteller. Dit is het verhaal van vier Londenaren - drie vrouwen en een jonge man met een verleden - getekend met absolute waarheid en intimiteit. Kay, die tijdens de oorlog een ambulance bestuurde en het leven ten volle leefde, kleedt zich nu in mannelijkere kleren en dwaalt met een rusteloze honger door de straten, op zoek ... Helen, slim, lief, geliefd, heeft een pijnlijk geheim ... Viv, een glamourmeisje, is koppig, zelfs dom, loyaal aan haar soldatenlief ... Duncan, een schijnbaar onschuldige, heeft zijn eigen demonen te bestrijden gehad tijdens de oorlog. Hun levens en geheimen verbinden zich op soms verrassende manieren. Oorlog leidt tot vreemde allianties ...

Een negentiende-eeuwse jonge vrouw uit de Engelse middenklasse die vrouwen in de gevangenis bezoekt als sociale bezigheid, raakt in de ban van een raadselachtige vrouw die veroordeeld is omdat ze als spiritiste betrokken was bij iemands dood.