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Liane Moriarty The Husband's Secret

The multi-million copy bestseller that launched the author of HBO s Big Little Lies

She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive ... THE ENTHRALLING MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER ABOUT SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia _________ Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband. That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'. She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared...

Engels | ePub3, 3,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2013

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Amanda Prowse A Christmas Wish

A Short Story - No Greater Love

A special Christmas short story from Amanda Prowse: a wonderful, warm festive treat from a bestselling author. Poppy is trying to make sure her children have the perfect Christmas. The fields are sparkling with snow, the turkey is roasting, and the tree is groaning with presents. But Poppy's beloved husband is fighting in Afghanistan, and the kids are missing their Dad. Can all their wishes come true without him? Or will they have the perfect Christmas after all? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 62 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2013

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Jane Casey The Stranger You Know - Maeve Kerrigan 4

The latest crime thriller featuring detective Maeve Kerrigan - winner of the Mary Higgins Clark AwardHe meets women.He gains their trust.He kills them.That s all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in.But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve s colleague.Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how...

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Ebury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013

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Eleanor Catton The Luminaries

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely...

Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2013

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Virginia Woolf Jacob's Room - Collins Classics

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams....

Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013

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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those...

Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013

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Josephine Cox The Broken Man

Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him...

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013

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James Joyce Ulysses

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013

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Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013

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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach

A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013

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Carole Matthews A cottage by the sea

Tijdens een weekje vakantie met vrienden valt een jonge getrouwde vrouw als een blok voor de nieuwe lover van haar beste vriendin.

Fictie

Engels | 445 pagina's | Sphere, London | 2013

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Elizabeth Fremantle Queen's gambit

Het leven van Katherine Parr (1512-1548), de zesde vrouw van de beruchte Engelse koning Hendrik VIII.

Fictie

Engels | 463 pagina's | Joseph, London [etc.] | 2013

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Catherine Ryan Hyde Walk me home

Omdat ze na de dood van hun moeder niemand meer hebben om op terug te vallen, besluiten twee zusjes op zoek te gaan naar haar meest betrouwbare ex-vriendje.

Fictie

Engels | 444 pagina's | Black Swan, London | 2013

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Joyce Carol Oates Daddy Love

Een welgestelde vrouw moet aanzien hoe een kinderlokker haar zoontje ontvoert: hij komt terecht in een hel.

Fictie

Engels | 279 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2013

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Dee Phillips Gladiator

the story of a fighter

Een jongeman heeft vijf jaar als gladiator in Rome moeten vechten. Nu keert hij terug naar zijn stam in Groot-Brittannië. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 47 pagina's | ReadZone, Twickenham | 2013

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Kim Stanley Robinson Shaman

In een primitieve samenleving 30.000 jaar geleden krijgt een jongen opdracht om gedurende twee weken in zijn eentje te overleven: de ultieme test voor een toekomstige sjamaan.

Fictie

Engels | 456 pagina's | Orbit, London | 2013

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Jane Thynne Black roses

Een jonge Britse actrice raakt verzeild in de wereld van het mationaalsocialisme in het Berlijn van 1933, waar ze de rol van haar leven moet spelen als ze gevraagd wordt voor de Britten te spioneren.

Fictie

Engels | 471 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London [etc.] | 2013

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Charlotte Williams The house on the cliff

De dood jaren geleden van de au pair van een nieuwe cliënt van een psychotherapeute is omgeven door raadsels: was het een ongeluk of moord?

Fictie

Engels | 294 pagina's | Macmillan, London [etc.] | 2013

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Pippa Wright The foster husband

Wanneer een jonge vrouw haar echtgenoot en Londen verlaat voor een lang verblijf in het huis van haar oma op het platteland, gaat ze anders tegen zichzelf en haar leven aan kijken.

Fictie

Engels | 429 pagina's | Pan Books, London [etc.] | 2013

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Helen Chandler Two for joy

Een jongeman en een jonge vrouw zijn al jaren dikke vrienden, maar als hij aankondigt met een andere vrouw te trouwen, is zij niet blij.

Fictie

Engels | 310 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2013

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