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Mark Billingham The Burning Girl - Tom Thorne Series

Some fires never go out ...X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy -- but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone is ready to stand up for what he believes is his.Thorne's...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Mark Billingham Lifeless - Tom Thorne Series

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . . and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.But someone is stalking the city's most destitute citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers...

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charles Bukowski Pulp

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer''s seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski''s own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charles Bukowski Factotum

One of Charles Bukowski''s best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant...

Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charlotte Brontë Villette

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness

Engels | 963 pagina's | Floating Press, [Waiheke Island] | 2009

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Charlotte Bronte The Professor

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously. It follows the journey of William Crimsworth into maturity, showing his loves and the path to his eventual career as Professor at an all-girl's school. The novel was largely influenced by Bronte's time in Brussels, where she fell passionately in love with her married language professor. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | The Floating Press, [Nederland] | 2009

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Karin Fossum Calling Out For You - Inspector Sejer

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Karin Fossum He Who Fears The Wolf - Inspector Sejer

A twelve-year-old boy runs into his local police station claiming to have seen a brutally dismembered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was spotted at the scene before he disappeared into the woods. The next morning the local bank is robbed at gunpoint. Making his escape, the robber takes a hostage and also flees into the woods.As the search for Halldis Horn's killer continues all fingers of suspicion point to Errki - except one. Errki's doctor refuses to...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Karin Fossum When The Devil Holds The Candle - Inspector Sejer

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him, its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend: following an old woman into her home, brandishing his knife. Zipp waited anxiously outside but Andreas failed to reappear.Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre are baffled but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling and heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the...

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Karin Fossum Don't Look Back - Inspector Sejer

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But when a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever. Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness, is called in to investigate. As the suspense builds, and the list of suspects grows, Sejer's determination to discover the truth leads him to peel away...

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

Robert Langdon

The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace ThackerayA novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom on her own terms. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Her natural independence and spirit prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield...

Engels | ePub3, 1,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2006

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George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party....

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2004

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Zadie Smith White Teeth

Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The TimesThe international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship,...

Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2001

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Michel Faber Under The Skin

With an introduction by David MitchellIsserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2000

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Oldtimers

A lonely widower inherits his mother's remote farmhouse. To have something to do, he applies to the local Volunteer Center. He goes to work in his old style, park maintenance, with an old lady who lives alone on an estate. One day he enters a barn ... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 44 pagina's (PDF, 0,3 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Cycling

novella

What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling. Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by. A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 74 pagina's (PDF, 0,4 MB) | published by the Boekencoöperatie, [Amsterdam] | 2024

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen A courtyard full of finds

A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors. The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century. He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard. On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate....

Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Nederland] | 2024

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal bushcraft

living in the wild from the wild; novel

What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...

Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

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Ella Smith Billionaire brushstrokes

a modern love story

In the bustling city of New York, where ambition and passion collide, Damian Blackwood, a formidable CEO with a heart guarded by walls of success, finds himself captivated by the enigmatic Amber Wilson, a free-spirited artist whose every brushstroke tells a story of untamed creativity. Their paths cross at Amber's art exhibition in a sophisticated gallery, where Damian is instantly captivated by her artwork. Despite their differences, they are drawn to each other. As they embark on a unique art commission,...

Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | [Ella Smith], [Afferden] | 2024

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Anita Brookner A start in life

Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.

Fictie

Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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