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Kate Worsley She rises

Halverwege de 18e eeuw monstert een vijftienjarige jongen door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden in de havenstad Harwich in Groot-Brittannië aan bij de marine.

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Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 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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Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax

"Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...

Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Tom Campbell Fold

Vijf oude schoolvrienden van in de veertig spelen maandelijks een avondje poker, wat uit de hand loopt als een van de verliezers wraak neemt op een van de winnaars.

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Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 0,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Maureen Freely Under the Vulcania

De echtgenote van een Engelse specialist, die haar teveel in de watten legt na een ziekte, brengt een ochtend door in een relax-instituut waar mooie mannen op velerlei wijzen zich vervelende vrouwen verwennen.

Fictie

Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory

"Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...

Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Barbara Trapido Sex and Stravinsky

Een Zuid-Afrikaan, die in Engeland woont met zijn Australische vrouw, reist voor een conferentie naar zijn geboorteland en ontmoet er zijn jeugdliefde.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Amanda Prowse The Ten Pound Ticket

A Short Story - No Greater Love

Australia, 1962: Susie has just arrived on the boat from England. She is clutching a newborn baby, but she has no wedding ring on her left hand. The land is dusty and hot, and the work is hard and tiring. All Susie wants is to go home. But with no money, and no hope, how can she turn her life around? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2014

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Celia Walden Harm's way

Een 19-jarige Engelse gaat na haar eindexamen een jaar naar Parijs, waar ze bevriend raakt met een 40-jarige Ierse, wier flatgenoot hun vriendschap verstoort.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Tim Adler Hollywood and the Mob

"From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled the moguls and the money, the Mob learned how to be cool from classic films like The Godfather and characters...

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Michael Kimball Big Ray

Nadat een man van zijn zus heeft gehoord dat hun extreem corpulente vader is overleden, overdenkt hij hun moeizame relatie die werd gekenmerkt door geestelijke, lichamelijke en emotionele mishandeling.

Fictie

Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant

Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [Nederland] | 2014

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Gene Brewer K-Pax omnibus

"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself `prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion, and where every being co-exists in harmony. It's not...

Engels | 800 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes

"Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...

Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Lesley Glaister Nina Todd has gone

Een vrouw met een duister verleden leidt een onopvallend bestaan in Sheffield totdat ze een man ontmoet die zich aan haar blijft opdringen en haar confronteert met dat verleden.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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T.C. Boyle Tooth and claw

"This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...

Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014

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Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

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Simon Scarrow Gladiator

Vengeance

The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....

Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014

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