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Hilary Mantel Vacant Possession
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved 'Every Day is Mother's Day'.Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic.It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and rather...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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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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Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIt is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.''McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us'' Guardian Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [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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Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEA contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.'A triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 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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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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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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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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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 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 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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Emily Bront Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is commonly thought of as "romantic", but try rereading it without being astonished by the extremes of physical and psychological violence' Jeanette WintersonEmily Bront 's novel of impossible desires, violence and transgression is a masterpiece of intense, unsettling power. It begins in a snowstorm, when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2008
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a classic novel loved by adults and children alike. Come laugh and cry with the March family. Meg - the sweet-tempered one. Jo - the smart one. Beth - the shy one. Amy - the sassy one. Together they're the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun and forming a secret society. Through sisterly squabbles,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Puffin, [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 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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Bavo Dhooge De schreeuw van de sax
Een saxofoon vertelt over zijn leven vanaf zijn geboorte in de negentiende eeuw tot nu, waarin hij de gruwelen van de wereldoorlogen beleeft, schittert tijdens de gloriejaren van de jazz en met zijn schreeuw de popmuziek kleurt.
Fictie
Nederlands | 186 pagina's (ePub2, 3,9 MB) | Horizon, Antwerpen, Amsterdam | 2023
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Robert Haasnoot Duinbrand
roman
Jaren zeventig. In vissersdorp Zeewijk strijken op een dag rondtrekkende vreemdelingen neer. Ze installeren zich met hun auto’s en woonwagens in de duinen. Hun aanwezigheid zorgt voor onrust en opwinding. De jonge Paul, opgroeiend in een streng religieus gezin, maakt bij toeval kennis met het meisje Kima, een van de onaangepaste vreemdelingen. Hun geheime vriendschap groeit, terwijl de dorpsbewoners zich door allerlei gebeurtenissen steeds minder veilig voelen. Langzaam keert men zich tegen de nieuwkomers....
Fictie
Nederlands | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | De Geus, Amsterdam | 2020
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