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Jonathan Coe The Rotters' Club

Vier actieve, heel verschillende leerlingen van een middelbare school in Birmingham vormen samen een club die ook de redactie van de schoolkrant gaat voeren.

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Engels | 404 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2014

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Haruki Murakami The strange library

Een jongen gaat naar de stadbibliotheek om een boek over de belastingwetten in het Ottomaanse Rijk te lenen. De bibliotheekmedewerkster verwijst hem naar een kamer met een oude man.

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Engels | 72 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2014

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Kirsty Wark The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle

Een 92-jarige ongetrouwde lerares laat haar huis op een Schots eiland na aan een vrouw die ze nooit heeft ontmoet. Die vrouw is nu dement en haar dochter stuit op verrassende onthullingen wanneer zij zich ontfermt over de erfenis.

Engels | 434 pagina's | Two Roads, London | 2014

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Beth Miller When we were sisters

De vriendschap tussen twee tienermeisjes stokt als de moeder van de een gaat samenwonen met de vader van de ander; twintig jaar later komen zeelkaar opnieuw tegen.

Engels | 390 pagina's | Ebury Press, London | 2014

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Rebecca Mascull The visitors

Een doofstom en blind meisje leeft heel geïsoleerd in Victoriaans Engeland, totdat een vrouw haar gebarentaal leert.

Fictie

Engels | 330 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2014

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Lissa Evans Crooked heart

Een jonge jongen krijgt door evacuatie uit Londen tijdens de Blitzkrieg een nieuwe 'moeder', met wie hij een perfect oplichtersteam vormt.

Fictie

Engels | 282 pagina's | Doubleday, London | 2014

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Peter Robinson Abattoir blues

Een vreemde vlek in een verlaten hangar, twee verdwenen jongemannen en een gestolen tractor blijken in de loop van een onderzoek steeds meer met elkaar te maken te hebben.

Engels | 367 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2014

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Gail Godwin Flora

Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.

Fictie

Engels | 278 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2013

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Robert Cabot The Joshua tree

"Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...

Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

"Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots

"When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...

Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Kate Colquhoun Taste

"From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and...

Engels | 480 pagina's (6,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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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.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rosie Boycott Spotted pigs and green tomatoes

"Small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly...

Engels | 320 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Paul Gilding The great disruption

"It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The `Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Nic Dunlop The lost executioner

"Police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 of them. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what had happened, and Comrade Duch had disappeared. Photographer Nic Dunlop became obsessed with the idea of finding Duch, and shedding light on a secret and brutal world that had been sealed off to outsiders. Then, by chance, he came face to face with him... The Lost Executioner describes Dunlop's personal journey to the heart of the...

Engels | 352 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Natasha Joffe | Justine Roberts Why did nobody tell me?

"Do `milestones' feel like millstones? Does the thought ofwaiting at the school gate make you more nervous than yourfive-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your childrenfight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feelingmostly bewildered and blamed? Then TheMumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for...Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com and based onthe assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to behelpful...

Engels | 416 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Harry Patch | Richard van Emden The last fighting Tommy

"Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Deborah Jackson Three in a bed

"Parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep.;The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care, including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers, reviews the history of babies in the bed and, through interviews with parents, explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death, as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life, hints on safety in the bed and"

Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Rachel Resnick Love junkie

"Rachel Resnick is a self-confessed Love Junkie. Her life has consisted of a continuous stream of men, all of whom have treated her badly, and yet she chose them and has convinced herself that she cannot live without them. Obsessive and possessive, she allows herself to be humiliated and degraded in her pursuit of love. Finding herself single, broke, depressed and childless, Rachel is determined to break the cycle. But to do this, she has to face the troubled past that she has been trying desperately...

Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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