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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Catherine Cookson Als de ochtend gloort
Beatrice, de oudste dochter van de welgestelde Simon Steel, neemt zonder enige moeite het huishouden in huize Dennenlust over wanneer haar moeder overlijdt. Haar drie zussen zien haar strenge beleid met lede ogen aan en merken hoe het landgoed een obsessie voor Beatrice wordt. Bij het overlijden van de vader des huizes, is ze tot in de puntjes voorbereid om het huis en de grond eromheen over te nemen. Maar als ze het testament te zien krijgen, neemt hun leven een onverwachte wending, want het huis...
Nederlands | 11 uur 15 minuten (491 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Kennedy Kerr Secrets of Magpie Cove
Lila had a favourite rock to sit on towards the back of the cove, where she often ate her breakfast, gazing out at the tumbling Cornish sea. As the sun rose that morning, Lila wished with all her heart that the grey-green waves could wash away her old life. That Magpie Cove would help her move on, and to forget... When aspiring pastry chef Lila Bridges flees her life in the city after a heartbreaking tragedy, she finds herself working behind the counter at Magpie Cove’s most beloved local establishment...
Engels | 6 uur 36 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Pippa James The Happiness Project
Prepare to be captivated by one of the most poignant and heart-warming books you will read this year, perfect for readers who loved One Day in December. Alison’s perfect world has fallen apart. Her beloved larger than life mother-in-law, Maggie, has just passed away. Every afternoon they’d talk and laugh over a pot of tea - and Maggie was secretly the glue that held Alison’s family together. Now she’s trying to figure out a future without her... With a little help from her two best friends, Alison...
Engels | 7 uur 58 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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R.C. Sherriff Een tweede leven
Zelfs het onbeholpene draagt bij aan de charmes van R.C. Sherriff - de Volkskrant- ‘Een tweede leven’ gaat over meneer Baldwin, die onlangs met pensioen is gegaan. Eerst is hij vol hoop en plannen voor de toekomst, maar enkele maanden later lijkt hij niets meer voor elkaar te krijgen. Zijn vrouw is evenzeer uit haar doen; ze heeft nu voortdurend een metgezel die haar de hele dag op haar vingers kijkt, elke dag weer. Bovendien hebben ze elkaar niets meer te zeggen. Ten einde raad stelt Edith...
Nederlands | 10 uur 7 minuten (874 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2022
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Helen Fielding Bridget Jones
het nieuwe dagboek
De wilde jaren zijn voorbij! Maar niet voor lang. Aan het einde van 'Bridget Jones: het dagboek' eindigde Bridget met Mark Darcy, de man van haar dromen. Nu, in 'het nieuwe dagboek', lezen we meer over het bewogen leven van Bridget, al slingerend door een wirwar van zelfhulpboek-theorieën en krankzinnig advies van haar vrienden, in een knipperlicht relatie met Mark Darcy en aan haar zijde een moeder die geobsedeerd is door eierpellers, begint Bridget aan een spirituele openbaring die haar naar de...
Nederlands | 10 uur 31 minuten (457 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Barbara Cartland Liefde kent geen duisternis
Op een zonnige dag in Engeland, in de lente van 1880, loopt Atlanta Lynton door het park op weg naar huis. Hier ontmoet ze de charmante Franse kunstenaar Paul Beaulieu. De twee worden op slag verliefd op elkaar. Echter, de vader van Atlanta, de lokale pastoor, heeft andere plannen voor zijn dochter. Hij wil dat ze trouwt met haar ijskoude en pompeuze neef William, die het gezin Lynton kan voorzien van status en welvaart. Kiest Atlanta voor haar geliefde, gepassioneerde en toegewijde Paul of vervult...
Nederlands | 7 uur 12 minuten (315 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Helen Fielding Bridget Jones
het dagboek
Het dagboek van Bridget Jones is het hilarische en verwoestend zelfbewust verslag van het leven van een dertig jarige single in Londen op een gedoemde zoektocht naar zelfverbetering. Gevangen tussen het genot van het vrijgezelle plezier en de angst om alleen te sterven en gekweld door zelfvoldane getrouwde vrienden die vragen, "hoe is het met je liefdesleven?" met welbedoelde, maar neerbuigende blikken. Bridget besluit om te stoppen met roken, minder alcohol te drinken, de omtrek van elke dij met...
Nederlands | 7 uur 33 minuten (328 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Louise Emma Clarke Mum's Big Break
Life in the spotlight was never going to be easy... Jess's life was turned upside down when her blog went viral. Now, with hundreds of thousands of followers, Jess is now navigating the trials and tribulations of a world online. Being a mummy blogger was originally an escape, but now it seems to be turning into a career. And after one wrong post on her social media channels, Jess discovers that life in the spotlight isn't always peachy. With a new baby on the way, the possibility of starring...
Engels | 8 uur 15 minuten (361 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jane Lacey-Crane The Little Shop on Floral Street
In the wake of tragedy, two sisters have to piece their family back together again... Grace never thought she'd have to return home to Floral Street. Having spent most of her life building a successful career in London, she's done everything she possibly can to avoid the flower stall that's been in her family for generations. But when tragedy hits, she's got no choice. It's time to face the demons of the past and support her family. Faith has returned home after years travelling the world. The...
Engels | 10 uur 8 minuten (446 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Helen Fielding Bridget Jones
mad about the boy
Veertien jaar nadat ze Mark Darcy heeft ontmoet, heeft Bridget's leven onverwachtse wendingen genomen. Maar ondanks de nieuwe uitdagingen van online daten, alleenstaand ouderschap, veranderende kledingmaten en verbijsterend complexe apparatuur, is ze nog steeds dezelfde onbedwingbare en innemende persoon die we ons allemaal herinneren van de eerdere boeken. Terwijl Bridget zich een weg baant door nieuwe problemen zoals vernederingen tijdens een schoolfeest en generatieoverschrijdende seks, leert...
Nederlands | 11 uur 7 minuten (497 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lily Graham Christmas at Hope Cottage
In the little village of Whistling, with its butterscotch cottages and rolling green hills, snow is beginning to fall. Christmas is coming, and Emma Halloway is on her way home. When twenty-eight-year-old food writer Emma Halloway gets dumped then knocked off her bike, she’s broken in more ways than one, and returns to her family’s cosy cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. Emma hasn’t been back in some time, running from her crazy relatives and her childhood sweetheart, Jack Allen. Emma’s grandmother...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Liz Eeles A Summer Escape and Strawberry Cake at the Cosy Kettle
‘This book is AMAZING!... What a SCRUMPTIOUS read!!... I genuinely could not, and did not want to put it down at all... I would advise that you switch your phone to silent, grab a ginormous slice of cake and ignore EVERYONE around you while you binge read...’ The Writing Garnet The Cosy Kettle café is the perfect place to escape this summer, for fans of Cathy Bramley, Jenny Colgan and Debbie Johnson. Guests can tuck into fruit puddings and strawberry-studded ice cream, but for Flora, the warm summer...
Engels | 9 uur 10 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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