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The Boy Who Could See Death by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
From Salley Vickers, bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel, comes The Boy Who Could See Death, an enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories. Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life but, he learns the hard way, he must keep it hidden ...Show more
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
"A lovely book ...wise at heart and filled with colourful characters". (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat). Salley Vickers, the top ten bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and Dancing Backwards, returns with The Cleaner of Chartres, a perfect book club book, for readers who loved Joanne Harris' Ch ...Show more
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
There is something special about the ancient cathedral of Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each morning. No one quite knows where she came from ...Show more
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each morning. No one quite knows where she came from ...Show more
The Gardener by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers - a charming, heartwarming and beautifully designed Christmas gift!Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues ...Show more
The Librarian by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town ...Show more
The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction
This is the brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of Mr Golightly's Holiday and Miss Garnet's Angel. 'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr. David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child, he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and ...Show more
Where Three Roads Meet - The Myth of Oedipus by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across Hampstead Heath to relate the story of his life. First published 2007.