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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...
Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Hendrik Groen The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old
The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old ... 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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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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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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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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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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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.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
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 | Psychologische roman
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.
Sociale roman
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.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 222 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2015
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Jan Vantoortelboom His name is David
Fictie
Engels | 237 pagina's | World Editions, New York, Amsterdam | 2019
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Leo van Bergen Among the dying
Fictie
Engels | 89 pagina's | Dulce & Decorum, Deventer | 2014
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Charles den Tex | Anneloes Timmerije Finding her
the heartbreaking tale of a couple torn apart by war
Fictie
Engels | 477 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2016
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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.
Non-fictie
Engels | 550 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2014
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