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Heather J Fitt Open Your Eyes

Can you see danger when it's right in front of you? When Edinburgh reporter Frankie is assigned a high-profile crime story about a series of sexual assaults, she relishes the prospect of her big break. As she begins uncovering the truth behind women's safety, online trolls known as incels start threatening her very existence. Will Frankie uncover the truth, or will she become the next target? This intense and unsettling thriller about resentment and rage is perfect for fans of Pascal Engman's...

Engels | 8 uur 21 minuten (372 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows

"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...

Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places

"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...

Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lotte Kirkeby The Reunion

Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated...

Engels | 3 uur 20 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close

She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...

Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing

Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister...

Engels | 13 uur 50 minuten (606 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Damion Hunter Empire's Edge

Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain… Centurion Faustus Valerianus has already proven his bravery and skill, marching alongside Julius Agricola for six gruelling years to conquer the north of Britain. But that was just the beginning... With Agricola back in Rome, Faustus is given a new mission: to journey to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar and help him reclaim his rightful throne. But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia, fears grow that the...

Engels | 13 uur 35 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Patty Harpenau The Madonna codes

Spiritueel verslag van een jonge vrouw die de geheime boodschap van de elf Madonna’s ontraadselt. Met illustraties in kleur.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 271 pagina's | London Books, Bodegraven | 2023

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Harry Turksma De dertiende kamer

Een kunsthandelaar uit Parijs ontmoet op een zakenreis naar Knokke een beeldschone onderwijzeres. Hun uiteenlopende karakters en achtergrond vormen een stimulans voor hun onstuimige relatie, maar veroorzaken ook spanningen.

Fictie

Nederlands | 202 pagina's | Uitgeverij Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2023

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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel

In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....

Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn If They Knew

"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Nele Baplu Mijn lieve jongen

Een oude man gaat op zoektocht in zijn eigen geheugen en probeert zijn herinneringen te vangen in woorden.

Fictie

Nederlands | 84 pagina's | [Brave New Books], [Amsterdam] | 2023

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Harm Puite Modderduivel

De zoektocht naar liefde brengt een jonge Spaanse vrouw naar Senegal, Gambia en Ivoorkust. Als ze daar mensen probeert te helpen, begrijpt ze dat zij even kwetsbaar is en vindt ze daarin nieuwe kracht.

Fictie

Nederlands | 270 pagina's | Brave New Books, [Rotterdam] | 2023

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Robin Block Handleiding voor ontheemden

gedichten

Een poëtische zoektocht naar identiteit die de dichter en muzikant (1980) langs vierhonderd jaar koloniale geschiedenis van Indonesië voert. Hij spiegelt zijn zoektocht aan die van zijn grootouders, die na de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid naar Nederland kwamen.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 143 pagina's | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2023

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Willem Van Torre Lente in Boekarest

een romantisch sprookje van geweld

Twee vrienden richten een maffia-imperium op in België en Roemenië.

Fictie

Nederlands | 389 pagina's | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2023

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Jaap Houdijk De forel

Een man beziet de wereld met de nodige kritiek, heeft last van muziek die hij niet uit zijn hoofd krijgt, vraagt zich af of een aantrekkelijke vrouw wel past bij zijn intellectuele niveau en overdenkt actuele thema’s als global warming, de intensieve veehouderij en de lhtbi-gemeenschap.

Fictie

Nederlands | 181 pagina's | Uitgeverij Fugato, [Amsterdam] | 2023

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Jack F. Lee Abimbola

sweet hell

Een Nederlandse expat van middelbare leeftijd, in rouw om zijn overleden echtgenote, raakt verwikkeld in een affaire met een arme maar levenslustige Nigeriaanse studente. Zijn hun verschillen te groot voor echte liefde?

Fictie

Nederlands | 417 pagina's | In de Rieten Stoel, [Voorburg] | 2023

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Erik Vos Gedeeld leven

Memoires van de Nederlandse theaterregisseur (1929) over zijn ervaringen in de wereld van theater en literatuur, met speciale aandacht voor zijn huwelijk met schrijfster Inez van Dullemen (1925-2021). Met foto’s en illustraties.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 199 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2023

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