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Juliet Nicolson Abdication

"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...

Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Susan Abulhawa Mornings in Jenin

Het Palestijns-Israëlische conflict mist zijn uitwerking niet op vier generaties van een Arabisch-Palestijnse familie.

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Engels | 480 pagina's (ePub, 2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Liza Cody Monkey wrench

Een zwaargewicht vrouwelijke worstelaar belooft een vriendin de moordenaar van dier zuster op te sporen.

Fictie

Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 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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Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows

"In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...

Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Kamila Shamsie Kartography

"And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"

Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Tishani Doshi The pleasure seekers

Als een 19-jarige Indiase jongeman in Engeland werkervaring komt opdoen, wordt hij verliefd op een Welsh meisje en weigert de verloofde die zijn ouders voor hem hebben gekozen.

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Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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Dirk Wittenborn Pharmakon

Wanneer een Amerikaanse professor een pil ontwikkeld heeft waarvan men gelukkig wordt, is het resultaat voor zijn eigen gezin dramatisch.

Fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Lucy Wood Diving belles

"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...

Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jim Lynch The highest tide

"One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries are to come, indicators of the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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T.C. 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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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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Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant

Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [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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Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax

"Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...

Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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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Tim Adler Hollywood and the Mob

"From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled the moguls and the money, the Mob learned how to be cool from classic films like The Godfather and characters...

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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