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One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
The Actresses by Barbara Ewing
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
They all met again at the Drama School Reunion: the Hollywood celebrity, the out-of-work soap star, the understudy, the Shakespearian hero, the plodding small part player. Thirty-six years ago the Academy's principal spoke of the great parts awaiting them. What he did not say, was that before they reach ...Show more
The Circus of Ghosts by Barbara Ewing
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the m ...Show more
The Circus of Ghosts by Barbara Ewing
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the m ...Show more
The Fraud by Barbara Ewing
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings run so smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, France ...Show more
The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Mesmerist Ser.
London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. ...Show more
The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young widow Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. It is Mattie who admires their sparkling gowns, makes their extravagant hats and laughs at their stories of attending society balls dressed up as the glamorous ...Show more
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