Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters. Riverhead Books. 520 pages. 25.95.Some novelists burst onto the literary scene with a brilliant first book and each subsequent book is weaker and more disappointing ...

Waters' first truly great novel is a gloriously Dickensian web of deceit and romance, played out by characters so full of life that it's impossible not to become drawn in. This is sensuous ...

"Fingersmith," Welsh author Sarah Waters' 2002 winner for the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger winner, is a novel in three parts. The novel, set in Victorian England, follows the exploits ...

Only a cosmic Freudian could have cooked up the fact that Park Chan-wook’s new film, The Handmaiden, is based on a book by the Welsh novelist Sarah Waters.Water, after all, has long served as ...

The play is adapted by Alexa Junge from Sarah Waters' Man Booker Prize-nominated 2002 novel, which also became a BBC mini-series and is the basis for the Korean film “The Handmaiden.” ...

Sarah Waters' Fingersmith is one of the 25 books on the eclectic list that also features the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, ...

Sarah Waters’ Man Booker Prize-nominated 2002 page-turner has already received the BBC Masterpiece Theater treatment, and just this year was transplanted to 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial ...

The play is adapted by Alexa Junge from Sarah Waters' Man Booker Prize-nominated 2002 novel, which also became a BBC mini-series and is the basis for the Korean film “The Handmaiden.” ...