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Elizabeth Fremantle The girl in the glass tower
Arbella Stuart is kandidaat voor de troonopvolging van Elizabeth I en wordt daarom opgevoed in complete isolatie uit angst voor complotten tegen haar maar met hulp van dichteres Aemilia Lanyer gaat ze op zoek naar vrijheid.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Anne Rogers Ben
Diary of A Heroin Addict
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all.... but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that...
Engels | PDF, 1,8 MB | M-Y Books ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Alexandra Singer Tea At The Grand Tazi
Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is lured in by her new surroundings, promising excitement and, more importantly, freedom. In the final days of a North African summer, a sense of boredom and unease pervades the city. Maia is drawn unwillingly into the ways in which the clientele of the renowned Grand Tazi pass their increasingly long, hot evenings. As the intense heat wears down her resistance,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matt Wilven Blackbird Singularity
Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home. ' -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash LandingVince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn
As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Harry Sidebottom Fire and Sword - Throne of the Caesars, Book 3
'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMESThe third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne.The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Thacker Lingua Franca
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often. ' -- Matt Haig, author'Remarkable. ' -- Caroline Smailes, author'This is bloody brilliant. ' -- Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be TelevisedThere's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness... Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Fischel Witchwild - Witchworld
Flo is a thoroughly modern witchgirl. She has a spellstick, travels about in her skyrider and wouldn't know a cauldron if she fell into one. But when her grandmother turns up on an actual boomstick, warning that ghouls are about to attack Witchworld, Flo realises that everything she's been told about being a witch is just hocus pocus... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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Cathy Cassidy Broken Heart Club
De vrienden Eden, Hasmita, Andie, Ryan en Tasha hebben gezworen dat ze voor altijd beste vrienden zullen blijven. Niets kan hun band verbreken. Of toch wel? Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen | Schoolverhaal
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition contains a foreword by the illustrator...
Engels | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 21 MB) | Pavilion Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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Cathy Cassidy Looking glass girl
Alice Beech begint sinds ze op de middelbare school zit steeds meer een buitenbeentje te worden. Door een ongeluk bij een feestje komt Alice in het ziekenhuis terecht. Ze is bewusteloos en bevindt zich in een Wonderland-achtige omgeving. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Schoolverhaal
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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Madeline Miller The song of Achilles
De Griekse mythologische held Achilles vat een bijzondere vriendschap op voor een jongeling die door zijn vader op ca. 12-jarige leeftijd is opgenomen na door zijn eigen vader te zijn verbannen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Ondaatje The English patient
Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzorgt een Canadese verpleegster een waarschijnlijk Engelse piloot, die in de woestijn is neergeschoten en niet meer weet wie hij is.
Fictie
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Louise Aronson A history of the present illness
Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 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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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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Patrick McGrath Constance
Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.
Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Howard Jacobson The Finkler question
Een niet-joodse man doet alle moeite om zich om te scholen tot jood, hetgeen hem erg veel moeite kost ook al wordt hij gesteund door joodse vrienden.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge
"On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...
Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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