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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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Hannah Hendy The Dinner Lady Detectives
Murder is a dish best served ice cold... In the idyllic, small town of Dewstow, Margery and Clementine are eagerly awaiting retirement from their work on the front-line serving meals to the students at Summerview secondary school. Their peaceful life is shattered when their kitchen manager is found dead in the school’s walk-in freezer. The police are adamant that it’s an open-and-shut case of accidental death. But Margery and Clementine are convinced that something more sinister is afoot and take...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 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 Mistletoe at the Manor
A heart-warming Christmas romance set in Cornwall! Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Victoria Walters, Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley... Can Beth learn to open her heart this Christmas...? Between setting up her boutique and raising her six-year-old son, single mum Beth Sterling has little time for romance. When she moves her business into a cosy converted stable on the scenic Trenouth Estate, she finds herself clashing with the handsome but aloof owner of the estate, Tristan Trenouth. When...
Engels | 8 uur 29 minuten (378 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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Audrey Blake De assistente van de chirurg
‘De assistente van de chirurg’ van Audrey Blake is het eerste deel van de serie over Nora Beady. Londen, 1845. Nadat haar hele familie is overleden aan cholera, groeit Nora Beady op bij chirurg Horace Croft. Daar ontwikkelt ze zich tot een onmisbare assistente: ze plaatst hechtingen, maakt anatomische illustraties en voert experimenten uit. Alles in het diepste geheim, want het is voor vrouwen streng verboden om geneeskunde te beoefenen. Wanneer dokter Daniel Gibson de praktijk komt versterken, moet...
Nederlands | 11 uur 2 minuten (635 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
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Sasha Morgan Return to Lilacwell
Can love bloom in Lilacwell once more? Newly engaged couple Jasper and Adira have finally settled into The Laurels manor, and officially bid farewell to their respective city lives. Inspired by their journey, Rory, Adira’s friend and ex-colleague, yearns for a fresh start and rekindles his relationship with Lilacwell’s innkeeper, Cassie. But Cassie has been loved and left before and is reluctant to trust Rory. Will she dare to trust again, or will the allure of his promising law career sway his...
Engels | 8 uur 5 minuten (359 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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Rennie McOwan The Day the Mountain Moved
Are you ready for another action-packed adventure with Gavin, Clare, Michael, and Mot? From fighting a gang of crazy criminals to building their den out of a ruined castle, the daring kids are off on a new quest in the rugged Scottish countryside. In this third adventure story, Gavin, Clare, Michael and Mot find themselves running around the mountainous countryside of remote Scotland. But things are not as they seem... Are those wolves lurking in the shadows? "The Day the Mountains Moved" is...
Engels | 4 uur 10 minuten (187 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Pauline Rowson The Isle of Wight Murders
A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf course. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he’s on holiday trouble follows him... On an abandoned golf course, Horton finds a distraught, young woman with a gun in her hand, crouching over one of the derelict bunkers. Then the smell hits him. A dead man lies there. Dressed in walking gear, his body decomposing. The woman with the gun says she’s his sister....
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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James Runcie Sidney Chambers en het probleem van het kwaad
'Sidney Chambers en het geheim van het kwaad' van James Runcie is alweer het derde deel in de Grantchester-serie over pastoor en amateur-detective Sidney Chambers. In dit deel probeert hij een seriemoordenaar te stoppen, onderzoekt hij de verdwijning van een beroemde schilder, vermoed hij dat een verdrinking op een filmset misschien toch geen ongeluk was en ontdekt hij waarom er in 1963 een baby uit het ziekenhuis is meegenomen. Genoeg te doen dus voor de predikant en zijn kameraad inspecteur Geordie...
Nederlands | 9 uur 12 minuten (530 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 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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Keris Stainton It Had to Be You
An absolutely laugh out loud romance novel
‘Utterly addictive. I LOVE it!’ Colleen Coleman, bestselling author of Don’t Stop Me Now. Twenty-five-year-old Bea is a hopeless romantic with a hopeless love life – until now. New beau Dan ticks all the boxes: he’s good-looking, kind and thoughtful. The complete opposite of Bea’s ex, who once threw her out in the middle of the night when she was ill so she didn’t disrupt his sleep. So when her friends point out that she and Dan don’t have fireworks, Bea ignores them. Dan is the whole package. And...
Engels | 8 uur 4 minuten (380 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Keris Stainton The One Who's Not the One
A feel good, laugh out loud romantic comedy
‘I absolutely loved this book! I was laughing out loud at certain scenes and when I tried to go to bed I ended up giggling myself into a fit thinking about them. Absolutely amazing… A delightful, HILARIOUS book.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars Cat’s life has hit a brick wall. Since her ex ditched her without ceremony five years ago she’s quit stand-up comedy, landed in a steady but dull job, and lives in a tiny flat with roommates she knows only as The One Who Eats All My Food and The One Who Has Really...
Engels | 6 uur 41 minuten (294 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sarah Goodwin Gestrand
Je zou voor altijd willen blijven tot je niet meer weg kunt
Gestrand van Sarah Goodwin is een beklemmende, razendspannende thriller die je ademloos achterlaat. Wat begint als het avontuur van hun leven eindigt in moord. Nadat ze een jaar hebben overleefd op een onbewoond Schots eiland voor een realityprogramma, wachten acht mensen op een strand op de boot die hen eindelijk komt ophalen. De zon zakt al achter de horizon, maar er is nog geen boot te zien. Hebben ze de dagen verkeerd geteld? Een dag verstrijkt, en nog een, en nog steeds komt er niemand. De paniek...
Nederlands | 11 uur 45 minuten (677 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2022
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Clare Chambers Geluksmomenten
London, 1957. Jean Swinney is 39 en schrijft – als enige vrouw – voor de plaatselijke krant, maar verder is haar wereldje klein en benauwend. Als Jean van de krant de opdracht krijgt om de bewering van ene Gretchen Tilbury te onderzoeken dat haar dochter Margaret het gevolg is van een onbevlekte ontvangenis, leidt dat tot een verrassende wending van haar leven. Want hoe meer ze zich verdiept in het leven van Gretchen en haar gezin, hoe meer ze bij hen betrokken raakt. Jean raakt bevriend met Gretchen,...
Nederlands | 10 uur 30 minuten (604 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2022
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