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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps. This was the home of the rich widow Lady Drysdale, a vivacious hostess ...Show more
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2008 Samuel Johnson Prize) by Kate Summerscale
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
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