Sarah Waters

Chronicles the picturesque adventures and romantic misadventures of Nan King, a onetime oyster girl from a provincial seaside town who follows a local music hall star to the gay and lesbian world of late Victorian London. Reprint.

Tipping the Velvet

Affinity

The little stranger

The night watch

Fingersmith

Um romance vitoriano que os vitorianos nunca sonharam escrever. Com diálogos afiados e provocantes, 'Na ponta dos dedos' - finalista do Booker Prize em 2002 -mistura ladrões e golpistas, mansões e manicômios, intriga e desilusão, além de erotismo e farsa. Tudo com um ar contemporâneo e reviravoltas que surpreendem o leitor do início ao fim do romance escrito soberbamente pela inglesa Sarah Waters.

Na ponta dos dedos

Die Muschelöffnerin

Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

Ustaparmak

Carezze di velluto

Rachel Stirling

Keeley Hawes

This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.

Labour Trauma in France

Suicide Voices

TIPPING THE VELVET: Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. She becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins. AFFINITY: An eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. FINGERSMITH: Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves - fingersmiths - in London's Borough. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away...

Tipping the Velvet / Affinity / Fingersmith

Sarah Waters Boxed Set

The News

Growing Up

Little Stranger B

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.

shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The Little Stranger

THE OFFICIAL MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION: Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, this is the #1 bestselling tale of a family haunted by the past - and perhaps more - from one of our most exciting contemporary novelists. In the summer of 1947, Hundreds Hall, the once grand home of the Ayres family, is in decline. When Dr. Faraday, who visited the house as the young son of a former servant, is called to see a patient there, he is shocked to see how badly the family is struggling. As Faraday grows closer to Mrs. Ayres, her war-damaged son Roddie, and her daughter Caroline, disturbing events start to occur, and he begins to wonder if they are threatened by something more sinister than a world that has left them behind. And when a romance begins, and then falters, between Faraday and Caroline, the reader begins to wonder if Faraday is as reliable a narrator as he seems . . . The Little Stranger confirms that Sarah Waters is the rarest of writers: one who can tell a riveting, spine-tingling, mysterious story in the finest of literary prose.

The Little Stranger (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Animal world is full of danger. Many animals have intriguing ways to protect themselves.

Trinity Blacio

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