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Sally Emerson

    Sally Emerson is the author of compelling novels and an anthologist of poetry and prose. Her writing delves into the intricate tapestry of human relationships and the inner lives of her characters. Emerson is known for her sharp psychological insights and a prose style that is both delicate and powerful, drawing readers deeply into her narratives. As a respected anthologist, she also contributes to enriching the literary landscape.

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    Nursery Rhymes
    The Kingfisher Nursery Library: Action Rhymes
    Fire Child
    Separation
    Second Sight
    • 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.

      Second Sight
    • 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

      Separation
    • 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.

      Fire Child
    • 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.

      The Kingfisher Nursery Library: Action Rhymes
    • Nursery Rhymes

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      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.

      Nursery Rhymes
    • 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.

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    • 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

      Broken Bodies
    • Perfect, Stories of the Impossible

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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.

      Perfect, Stories of the Impossible
    • 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.

      Heat
    • The Kingfisher Nursery Collection

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      A selection of action rhymes, nursery rhymes, poems and traditional stories. Suggested level: preschool, junior.

      The Kingfisher Nursery Collection