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Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock
Een advocaat uit Gibraltar helpt een joodse vriend, die in Marokko wordt beschuldigd van de moord op een jong meisje.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michèle Roberts Ignorance
Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog zitten twee Franse meisjes samen op school; mede door de oorlogsomstandigheden worden ze gedwongen keuzes te maken met verstrekkende gevolgen.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Liza Cody Monkey wrench
Een zwaargewicht vrouwelijke worstelaar belooft een vriendin de moordenaar van dier zuster op te sporen.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Cynan Jones The Dig
Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2014
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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic to the Stars - Book 7
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs . . . or at least she will be, once her husband Luke introduces her to his new A-list client Sage Seymour.Becky sets her heart on a new career she's going to be a stylist to the stars! And when a chance encounter thrusts her into the limelight, she grabs her opportunity. But in between choosing clutch bags and chasing celebrities, Becky loses touch with her family and her best friend . . . Caught up in the whirlwind of Tinseltown,...
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2014
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Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness
"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Gail Godwin Flora
Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.
Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Will Self Umbrella
Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.
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Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Toni Morrison Beloved
Discover Toni Morrison s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2014
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Kamila Shamsie Kartography
"And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"
Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows
"In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...
Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat
The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014
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William Boyd Restless
Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerekruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader.
Fictie | Spionageroman
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jessie Burton The Miniaturist
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel
The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....
Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014
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Michael Sims Dracula's guest
"Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...
Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Nick Lake In darkness
Terwijl Shorty onder de restanten van een ziekenhuis ligt na de aardbeving in Haïti, denkt hij terug aan de gebeurtenissen die ertoe leidden dat hij daar terechtkwam. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Lucy Wood Diving belles
"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Juliet Nicolson Abdication
"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michelle Lovric The book of human skin
Een rijke Venetiaanse, wier leven een hel wordt door haar wrede broer, belandt eind 18e eeuw in een afgelegen klooster in Peru onder het regime van een fanatieke non.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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