The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

6 best books like The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Jeffrey Ford): The Children's Book, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, The Virgin in the Garden, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Still Life, Cat Burglar Black

The Children's Book
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0307272095
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize


A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals,...
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN0684842572
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.

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The Virgin in the Garden
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679738290


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In 1950s Yorkshire, Frederica Potter, still living at home, senses that something exciting is beginning. Stars Hannah Watkins.

A wealthy theatre director is producing a play and Frederica Potter is desperate to secure...
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679762221
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0684835037
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes...
AuthorRichard Sala
K. Westree: Teen Cat Burglar

When K. Westree arrivse at Bellsong Academy, she thinks she's left her cat-burgling past behind her. But K. soon discovers the school has a mystery of its own, a hidden treasure left behind by its founder, and she's the only one who has a hope of finding it. As she resumes...
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