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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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Teresa F. Morgan Sunsets and Happy Ever Afters
Escape to Somerset and Cornwall in this fun and flirty romance! After a painful divorce, Maya Rosevear is determined to find love again. But with her busy schedule running a mobile beauty business and raising her kids, she turns to online dating. Along the way, she unexpectedly forms a friendship with Sam Trescott, the father of her daughter’s best friend. As they navigate their own emotional baggage, Maya and Sam can't help but wonder if they're destined to be more than just friends. Will...
Engels | 7 uur 41 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Teresa F. Morgan Cocktails at Kittiwake Cove
Be swept away to Cornwall in this summery tale of love and new beginnings! After a tough break-up, Rhianna is determined to put her heart on hold and focus on opening her beachside cocktail bar. But fate has other plans when she reconnects with her holiday fling, the irresistible Joe Trescott. As Joe helps Rhianna navigate her new town and business, sparks fly and old flames reignite. But will Rhianna resist Joe's player charm and stay true to her career aspirations? Escape to Cornwall's sun-kissed...
Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (409 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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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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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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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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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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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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Sue Watson Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake
Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake is a truly heart-warming and hilarious read about sisters, love and finding the courage to be yourself – one snowflake at a time. For Tamsin Angel, Christmas is always the biggest and best... chic parties and a little showbiz sparkle are a must. This year though, things aren’t going quite as planned... With bailiffs suddenly at the door and her husband nowhere to be found, it looks like Christmas just got downsized. Moving into her sister’s flat, she wonders...
Engels | 9 uur 2 minuten (400 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Cherry Radford The Spanish Garden
Andie finds herself in the midst of a media scandal that threatens to end her career as a TV landscape designer and her relationship with fellow presenter Johnny. On impulse, she decides to rent her grandmother's old home in southern Spain where she stayed as a child, but is shocked to discover that the beautiful Mediterranean garden she loved is now neglected and overgrown. Worse, her booking has fallen through and ex-flamenco dancer Vicente and his little son Rafi are staying at Casa Higuera –...
Engels | 9 uur 6 minuten (403 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sue Watson Ella's Ice-Cream Summer
A laugh out loud romantic comedy with extra sprinkles
Ella’s life just hit rock bottom, but can a summer by the sea mend her broken heart? When life gives you lemons… make ice cream! Life hasn’t always been easy for single mum Ella, but she has just hit an all-time low; she’s jobless, loveless, very nearly homeless and, to make matters worse, now the owner of a pocket-sized pooch with a better wardrobe than her. Packing her bags (and a bigger one for the dog), Ella sets off for the seaside town of Appledore in Devon to re-live the magical summers of...
Engels | 8 uur 37 minuten (381 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke The Beachside Christmas
Snow is falling and there’s romance in the air. Curl up for a cosy Christmas by the fire at Seaview Cottage... When thirty-year-old Lily Ambrose’s latest relationship ends in disaster, she remembers happy childhood holidays in the seaside town of Shipley and decides it’s the perfect place for a fresh start. But when Lily arrives, the town’s spirits are as low as her own: the local celebrity due to turn on the Christmas lights has gone on a cruise instead. Keen to prove herself, she calls in a favour...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (422 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke I'll Be Home for Christmas
A heartwarming, feel good romantic comedy
Nina Bailey loves Christmas. Except this year she doesn’t. Because it turns out that her husband-to-be has been cheating on her – and her beautiful wedding ceremony in the snow is cancelled. She’s not really in the mood to be jolly, sing carols, or go anywhere near gingerbread men – in fact, what Nina wants is to avoid the whole thing. So she’s come to stay at her Aunt Dolly’s cosy café in the south of France to nurse her broken heart. Nina is determined to get through Christmas with no tinsel,...
Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (357 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Emma Davies A Year at Appleyard Farm
Down a winding lane lined with honeysuckle and wild flowers, there’s a beautiful orchard beside the rushing River Wye. There, in a little farmhouse in the furthest corner, a young woman has a difficult and life-changing decision to make... Life on Appleyard Farm is all Freya Sherbourne has ever known. Having spent her childhood playing between the blossom-heavy apple trees, Freya can’t imagine calling anywhere else home. But times have been hard since her father’s sudden death, and now that she’s...
Engels | 14 uur 19 minuten (641 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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