Sally Emerson is de auteur van meeslepende romans en een bloemlezer van poëzie en proza. Haar schrijfwerk duikt in het ingewikkelde web van menselijke relaties en het innerlijke leven van haar personages. Emerson staat bekend om haar scherpe psychologische inzichten en een proza-stijl die zowel delicaat als krachtig is, waardoor lezers diep in haar verhalen worden getrokken. Als gerespecteerde bloemlezer draagt ze ook bij aan het verrijken van het literaire landschap.
Smart, savvy and original, Sally Emerson's story about a young woman growing up with an amoral mother deftly portrays youth and its careful obsessions. When her mother brings home the young, attractive architect Paul, Jennifer becomes aware of new and unusual feelings, and before long mother and daughter are competing for Paul's attention.
A compelling and moving novel set in London about the pain of being separated from the children you love. Amanda is a high-flying management consultant with a loving and eccentric husband. Kate is her new baby and Sarah her mysterious nanny
Fire Child's dark heroine is young Tessa who from the age of 12 uses the power of her smile to seduce men, with damaging and dramatic consequences. Sally Emerson's hypnotic, vivid, unputdownable, blazing love story throbs with lust and black humour.
In this collection of favourite action rhymes children can make Incey Wincey Spider climb up the spout, drive the big red bus, or march up and down like the Grand Old Duke of York.
One of a series containing traditional rhymes and stories for the nursery. Others in the series include Baby Games and Lullabies and Action Rhymes. Sally Emerson is a journalist and novelist whose other books include A Celebration of Babies, a collection of poetry and prose.
Sally Emerson's compelling sophomore novel takes the reader into a dark labyrinth of physical danger and spiritual terror. Jennifer Hamilton is alone again - alone in the big house she and her husband bought together, alone after six years of marriage.
A tense romantic thriller about stolen art treasures and precarious passion, this gripping story confirms Sally Emerson's status as a preeminent novelist of the mysterious, erotic and dramatic. Patrick first sees Anne in the British Museum in front of the Elgin Marbles - both young historians are fighting to uncover secrets
Bestselling author, Sally Emerson introduces the eerie and supernatural into her keen-eyed portraits of everyday life in this wondrous collection of stories. The beguiling tales of quotidian life invaded by forces beyond our control are both uncanny and charming, and ultimately uplifting as she celebrates reality and unreality in its many forms.
An intense and addictive novel about lost love and the compulsive pull of the past. Passionate, tense and menacing.This is a gripping story of obsession and love - and the difference between the two - by a formidable novelist. Newly re-issued as part of a series of six titles.
A selection of action rhymes, nursery rhymes, poems and traditional stories. Suggested level: preschool, junior.
