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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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