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One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand's best-known actors In 1962, the young New Zealand actress Barbara Ewing left for London, to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She went on to have a distinguished career in the theatre and in television and film, and to write celebrated novels. This vi ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | 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
$29.99 NZD
Category: 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
$34.99 NZD
Category: 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
$27.99 NZD
Category: 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 Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing
$29.99 NZD
Category: 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
$34.99 NZD
Category: 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
The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
$22.99 NZD
Category: 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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