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Julian Barnes The only story
Een oudere man vertelt in retrospect over de hemelse maar uiteindelijk tragische tienerliefde voor een toen meer dan twee keer zo oude vrouw.
Fictie
Engels | 212 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Joris Tulkens Nicolaes Cleynaerts
christenhond tussen moslims
Beschrijving van het leven van de 16e-eeuwse Vlaamse theoloog Nicolaes Cleynaerts, die Latijns, Grieks, Hebreeuws en Arabisch kende en probeerde moslims en christenen dichter bij elkaar te brengen, maar uiteindelijk door beide godsdiensten verketterd werd.
Fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 265 pagina's | Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, Antwerpen | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Britain Kalai Soderkvist Glass Roses
A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...
Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side
The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Martin Amis London fields
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson...
Engels | 480 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Edna O'Brien The Country Girls Trilogy
Edna O'Brien's beloved classics reveal the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a foreword by Eimear McBride).'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett'A treasure.' New York TimesONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up...
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
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
E-book
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
E-book
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
E-book
Josephine Cox Lonely Girl
De 15-jarige Rosie, enig kind, zou het thuis, op het Engelse platteland, aangenaam moeten hebben, maar haar moeders grillige karakter verstoort de harmonie binnen het gezin.
Fictie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Alice Munro New selected stories
Bundel verhalen uit 1998-2009 over levens van vaak onopvallende vrouwen.
Fictie
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Saskia Noort Stromboli
a novel
Hundreds of thousands of readers enjoy the joined column by writers' couple Sara and Karel on a daily basis, where they report openly about their life as a family. But behind this facade of their bohemian lifestyle a daily life filled with envy, resentment and even violence is festering. After another nocturnal escalation it's game over: Sara decides to leave Karel. Soon after Sara becomes isolated - nobody wants anything to do with her any longer. In order to get her life back on track she checks...
Fictie
Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Hilary Mantel Bring up the bodies
Thomas Cromwell, de belangrijkste raadsheer van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII moet diens vrouw Anna Boleyn het veld laten ruimen voor Jane Semour, op wie de koning zijn oog heeft laten vallen.
Fictie
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Bas Steman Morgan
my love; a novel
'Deeply moving! Many people will be touched by this story.' Adriaan van Dis, international bestselling author. A small town in Wales in 2006. Betrys, now in her late eighties, still longs for Morgan, the love of her life who perished during Operation Market Garden, as the Second World War was winding to a close. A Dutch writer inadvertently gets caught up in this story from long ago, in a way he could have never imagined. Based on a fascinating true story, Morgan, My Love is a surprising, romantic...
Fictie
Engels | 283 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
2018