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Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers
'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...
Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Gerda van Wageningen Sara's dochter
De dochter van Sara Verschoor verschijnt in Puttershoek, op zoek naar antwoorden over het overlijden van haar vader.
Fictie | Familieroman | Historische roman | Streek- en boerenroman
Nederlands | 182 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Sasha Morgan Escape to Lilacwell
She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more... Adira Summers has spontaneously quit her high-flying career as a barrister in London. She needs to escape from the rat race and, encouraged by her bohemian gran, has bought a campervan to do so. Taking off for a tour around Britain, disaster strikes early on when her van breaks down outside the quaint village of Lilacwell. But things look up after she meets handsome Jasper, who is visiting to check on his ailing uncle and his crumbling...
Engels | 8 uur 4 minuten (360 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Teresa F. Morgan Cocktails at Kittiwake Cove
Be swept away to Cornwall in this summery tale of love and new beginnings! After a tough break-up, Rhianna is determined to put her heart on hold and focus on opening her beachside cocktail bar. But fate has other plans when she reconnects with her holiday fling, the irresistible Joe Trescott. As Joe helps Rhianna navigate her new town and business, sparks fly and old flames reignite. But will Rhianna resist Joe's player charm and stay true to her career aspirations? Escape to Cornwall's sun-kissed...
Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Peter Gortworst De glimlachende dode
Een Syrisch gezin komt in een gemoedelijk Zeeuws dorp te wonen. De reacties op hun komst zijn gemengd, maar een jongeman bewijst dat ook Syrisch zand gemengd kan worden met Zeeuwse klei.
Fictie | Streek- en boerenroman
Nederlands | 228 pagina's | Pumbo, [Zwaag] | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Simone Foekens Winst voor het leven
Na het overlijden van haar moeder vindt een vrouw op zolder een overlijdensverklaring van een kindje met dezelfde geboortedatum als haar nicht. Samen gaan ze op zoek naar het ware verhaal van hun familie.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | ePub2, 13 MB | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Clemens Wisse Nieuw geluk na oud verdriet
Tonnie, de dochter van een rijke boer, groeit nauw op met Harm, de zoon van diens knecht. Zo nauw dat ze diepe gevoelens voor elkaar beginnen te koesteren. Tonnies vader Hein vindt dat maar niks: hij wil dat zijn dochter rijk trouwt en heeft al een man voor haar op het oog. Dat zijn dochter de welgestelde Bart maar een gemene man vindt, maakt hem niet uit. Al voor haar achttiende stapt ze met Bart in het huwelijksbootje. Toch zijn Heins problemen daarmee nog niet opgelost. Op de achtergrond is Harm...
Nederlands | 157 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Evelyn Grijze Anne
een ongrijpbare schaduw
Tekst op achterflap: "Als Anne wakker wordt en er een vreemde man naast haar bed zit, is ze beland in een mistige wereld en heeft ze geen vat meer op haar verleden. Ze kan op veel vragen alleen maar antwoorden: “Ik weet het niet.” Langzaam trekt de mist op, maar in haar herinnering blijven nog zwarte vlekken. Ze probeert haar leven weer op de rit te krijgen, maar dan wordt ze slachtoffer van pesterijen en aanslagen. Wie, waarom, waarom ik? Anne kan geen antwoorden vinden op deze vragen en angst gaat...
Fictie
Nederlands | 210 pagina's | Uitgeverij Boekscout, Soest | 2023
Gedrukt boek
L. Goerdayal Terugkeer van Pershad
Een biotechnologe en een oncoloog in opleiding worden verliefd op elkaar en maken een spirituele reis door India. Niet lang na hun huwelijk slaat het noodlot toe, maar de vrouw weigert te accepteren dat haar echtgenoot voorgoed verdwenen is.
Fictie
Nederlands | 400 pagina's | aquaZZ, Arnhem | 2023
Gedrukt boek