Amanda Prowse The Ten Pound Ticket

A Short Story - No Greater Love

Australia, 1962: Susie has just arrived on the boat from England. She is clutching a newborn baby, but she has no wedding ring on her left hand. The land is dusty and hot, and the work is hard and tiring. All Susie wants is to go home. But with no money, and no hope, how can she turn her life around? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2014

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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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Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat

The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband...

Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014

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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic to the Stars - Book 7

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs . . . or at least she will be, once her husband Luke introduces her to his new A-list client Sage Seymour.Becky sets her heart on a new career she's going to be a stylist to the stars! And when a chance encounter thrusts her into the limelight, she grabs her opportunity. But in between choosing clutch bags and chasing celebrities, Becky loses touch with her family and her best friend . . . Caught up in the whirlwind of Tinseltown,...

Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Transworld, [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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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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Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune

A Novel

From theNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,...

Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2014

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Toni Morrison Beloved

Discover Toni Morrison s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2014

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Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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Olga Tokarczuk The books of Jacob, or: A fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects.

Een joodse koopman in het Polen van de achttiende eeuw verklaart zichzelf tot de nieuwe messias en slaagt erin een massa volgelingen te krijgen.

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Engels | 964 pagina's | Riverhead Books, New York | 2022

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Matthew Quick The good luck of right now

a novel

Een alleenstaande, emotioneel beperkte man van eind dertig schrijft na de dood van zijn moeder brieven aan de beroemde Amerikaanse acteur Richard Gere waarin hij een weg naar vriendschap probeert te vinden.

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Engels | 284 pagina's | Harper, New York, NY | 2014

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Esther Gerritsen Roxy

Een jonge vrouw wordt door de dood van haar man én diens minnares plotseling uit haar angstige, geïsoleerde en beschermde leven getrokken.

Fictie

Engels | 190 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2016

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Hanneke Hendrix The Dyslexic Hearts Club

Drie vrouwen vluchten uit hun gezamenlijke ziekenhuiskamer. Zijn hun brandwonden de enige overeenkomst of is er meer?

Fictie

Engels | 191 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2016

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Fiston Mwanza Mujila Tram 83

Tram 83, een kroeg-restaurant-bordeel, is het middelpunt van het grimmige en vitale bestaan in een Congolese stad.

Engels | 220 pagina's | Jacaranda, London | 2015

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Kristien Hemmerechts The woman who fed the dogs

Het levensverhaal van de vrouw en medeplichtige van de Vlaamse kinderverkrachter en -moordenaar Marc Dutroux.

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Engels | 222 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2015

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Charles Portis True grit

Arkansas, rond 1870. Mattie Ross (14, ik-figuur) is vastbesloten het bloed van haar vader te wreken. Samen met een eenogige, alcoholistische marshal gaat ze op zoek naar de moordenaar. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Engels | 215 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2011

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Geert Mak In America

travels with John Steinbeck

Neerslag van een reis waarin de auteur het spoor volgt van de legendarische schrijver John Steinbeck, die begin jaren zestig samen met zijn poedel Charley een reis maakte door de Verenigde Staten.

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Engels | 550 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2014

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