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Lyn G Farrell Wacky man

Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'An astonishing tour de force!' -- The Daily Mail'Book of the Year!' -- Clio Gray, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted authorA striking debut from the winner of the 2015 Luke Bitmead BursaryMy new shrink asks me, 'What things do you remember about being very young?' It's like looking into a murky river, I say. Memories flash near the surface like fish coming up for flies. The past peeps out, startles me, and then is gone... Amanda secludes...

Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016

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P.K. Lynch Armadillos

Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'P. K. Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound... Read this one' -- Jeanette Winterson'A truly stunning debut' -- Matt Bendoris, The Scottish Sun'Just wonderful, haunting, real... ' -- Fiona Shaw'... a brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable. ' -- Vicky Feaver**Featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour**Aggie is fifteen, a 'sub' from a 'sub' family, one of Texas' downtrodden. Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out....

Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016

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Emma Cline The Girls

â€˜Take it to the beach and savour every pageâ€™ Observer

A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction.If youâ€™re lost, theyâ€™ll find youâ€¦Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. Itâ€™s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful.If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her...

Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016

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Markus Zusak The Book Thief

The life-affirming number one international bestseller

Life affirming, triumphant and tragic ... masterfully told... but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the...

Engels | ePub3, 11 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2016

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C.J. Fisher When we were alive

When we first meet Bobby, he is a shy, 12-year-old magician who falls in love with his best friend. William is consumed with self-hate and drinks to escape the memories of his father's sadness and his mother's death. Myles is writing letters to a mother he has never met. Three different people from three different times each explore the dark side of relationships, search for beauty in sadness and try to bear the burden of guilt from living in a world we are powerless to fix. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016

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Amanda Prowse My Husband's Wife - No Greater Courage

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROnce a week, Rosie Tipcott counts her blessings. She goes to sit on her favourite bench on the north Devon cliffs, and thanks her lucky stars for her wonderful husband, her mischievous young daughters, and her neat little house by the sea. She vows to dedicate every waking hour to making her family happy. But then her husband unexpectedly leaves her for another woman and takes the children. Now she must ask the question: what is left in her life? Can Rosie find the strength...

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 4,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016

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Annie Darling The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

A delightful new series set in a quaint old bookshop, for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan. Where happy ever after is only a page away... Once upon a time in a crumbling bookshop, Posy Morland hid in the pages of romantic novels. So when Bookend's eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put down her books and join the real world. Because Posy hasn't just inherited an ailing business, but also the attentions of Lavinia's grandson, Sebastian, AKA The Rudest Man In...

Engels | ePub2, 1,7 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2016

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Amanda Prowse Imogen's Baby

A Short Story - No Greater Miracle

Can Imogen overcome life's challenges and have the baby she longs for? It's hard enough having a baby on your own. But for Imogen, 24 years old and blind since birth, it will be harder than most. Her journey will take her from heartache to hope and back again. But Imogen has never let blindness rule her life, and she isn't going to start now... Inspired by a real-life story, this is a moving and gripping read from number 1 bestseller Amanda Prowse. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 98 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016

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Amanda Prowse Another Love - No Greater Courage

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HUSBAND'S WIFE. In the early years, she was happy. Romilly loved her stunning house, her kind husband and gorgeous daughter. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large glass of wine at the end of the day couldn't fix. But then a glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle became two. Once, Romilly's family were everything to her. Now, after years of hiding the drinking, she must finally admit that she has found another love... PREVIOUS...

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016

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Hendrik Groen The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old

The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old ... 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members...

Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016

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Jonathan Safran Foer Here I Am

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns...

Engels | ePub3, 3,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016

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Ian Rankin The Travelling Companion - Death Sentences

Short Stories to Die For

For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop offers the perfect occupation during a summer abroad in Paris. Working part-time in exchange for room and board leaves plenty of freedom to explore the city once visited by his literary hero, Robert Louis Stevenson, and things only get better when he meets a collector who claims to have the original manuscripts of both the first draft of Jekyll and Hyde and the never-published The Travelling Companion...

Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016

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Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child

The 'stunning conclusion' to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship...

Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2015

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Amanda Prowse A Mother's Story - No Greater Courage

I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control... This is her story. A mother's story. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2015

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R J Palacio Auggie & Me

Three Wonder Stories

WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest friend Christopher and classmate Charlotte - giving an insight into how Auggie has touched their own lives. Published previously as digital shorts entitled THE JULIAN CHAPTER, PLUTO and SHINGALING, this collection...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | RHCP, [Nederland] | 2015

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Tilly Bagshawe The Show - Swell Valley Series, Book 2

Welcome to Swell Valley - where the scandal is in a class of its own...The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly BagshaweNestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn't pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm!Until the interfering...

Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2015

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J.M. Coetzee Disgrace

A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2015

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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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Cynan Jones The Dig

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2014

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Jessie Burton The Miniaturist

A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel

The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....

Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014

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