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Michael Ondaatje The English patient

Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzorgt een Canadese verpleegster een waarschijnlijk Engelse piloot, die in de woestijn is neergeschoten en niet meer weet wie hij is.

Fictie

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Alan Drew Gardens of water

"Stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion."

Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Anne Michaels The winter vault

"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jaspreet Singh Chef

Een chef-kok reist voor de laatste keer per trein van Delhi naar Kashmir en blikt terug op zijn leven dat is bepaald door de verdeling van Kasjmir tussen India en Pakistan.

Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Politieke roman | Psychologische roman

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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D.W. Wilson Once you break a knuckle

Twaalf korte verhalen die zich afspelen in West-Canada met als thema hoe de beste bedoelingen verkeerd kunnen uitpakken.

Fictie | Verhalenbundel

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

"Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Robert Cabot The Joshua tree

"Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...

Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics

"Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"

Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Parker Bilal The golden scales

"Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...

Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

Fictie | Thriller

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw

"This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Simon Scarrow Gladiator

Vengeance

The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....

Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014

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Ciarán Collins The gamal

"Something unspeakable happened and someone chose to turn a blind eye? This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for"

Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Manil Suri The city of Devi

"Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking...

Engels | 400 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment

"`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Robert B. Parker Stranger in paradise

Een inspecteur van politie krijgt hulp van een huurmoordenaar om een maffiabaas in de val te lokken.

Fictie | Detectiveroman

Engels | 210 pagina's (ePub, 2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Barbara Trapido Sex and Stravinsky

Een Zuid-Afrikaan, die in Engeland woont met zijn Australische vrouw, reist voor een conferentie naar zijn geboorteland en ontmoet er zijn jeugdliefde.

Fictie | Romantische verhalen

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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