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Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Kate Atkinson Emotionally Weird
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010
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Jane Austen Emma (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself... 'Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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Karin Slaughter Broken - Will Trent/Atlanta series 4
The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
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Jonathan Franzen Freedom
A masterpiece of American fictionSam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book ReviewA novel from the author of The Corrections. This is the updated version of the text. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; and why things almost never work...
Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2010
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Sue Townsend Rebuilding Coventry
Een huisvrouw die per ongeluk haar buurman heeft vermoord, ontdekt tijdens haar omzwervingen op de vlucht voor de politie het positieve gevoel van vrijheid en een nieuw levensperspectief.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Mark Billingham Lazybones - Tom Thorne Series
The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked, kneeling ona bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. This was no ordinary murder but rather the work of a killer driven by something special, somethingspectacular. The fact that the dead man was a convicted rapist recently released from prison only increases the bizarre nature of the gruesome crime ... and the police's reluctance to apprehend the perpetrator. It's the body count that troubles Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, as brutal slaying follows...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
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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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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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