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Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Twee magiërs weten in het Engeland van begin 19e eeuw de toverkunst nieuw leven in te blazen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 943 pagina's | Vassallucci, Amsterdam | 2004
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family
"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", Le Fanu’s tale combines a lot of elements – horror, romance, thriller, and drama – to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape. All this, together with the countless secrets, murders,...
Engels | 1 uur 36 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Joseph Pearce Land van belofte
een familiekroniek
De ervaringen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de uit Breslau afkomstige familie van de joodse schrijver.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 346 pagina's | Uitgeverij Vrijdag, Antwerpen | 2015
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Lily Graham A Cornish Christmas
Nestled in the Cornish village of Cloudsea, sits Sea Cottage – the perfect place for some Christmas magic ... At last Ivy is looking forward to Christmas. She and her husband Stuart have moved to their perfect little cottage by the sea - a haven alongside the rugged cliffs that look out to the Atlantic Ocean. She’s pregnant with their much-longed for first baby and for the first time, since the death of her beloved mother, Ivy feels like things are going to be alright. But there is trouble ahead....
Engels | 7 uur 18 minuten (337 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Zadie Smith White teeth
Het leven van een Bengaalse migrantenfamilie in Londen verloopt niet volgens de verwachtingen.
Fictie
Engels | 461 pagina's | Hamilton, London | 2000
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Helen Cox Het laatste woord
Deel 6 in de Kitt Hartley-serie. Kitt Hartley en haar tweelingzus Rebecca bereiden zich voor op een vakantie in Schotland als cruiseschip-entertainer Errol Jackson voor de deur staat. Errol brengt het nieuws dat Bryce Griffin, een voormalige smokkelaar en een oude vriend van Kitt, is vermoord: zijn lichaam gevonden aangespoeld bij een vuurtoren, met een schotwond. Kitt haalt Rebecca over om hun reis te annuleren en boekt samen met Kitts assistent Grace Edwards en beste vriendin Evie Bowes de volgende...
Fictie
Nederlands | 225 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Libba Bray De roos van de strijd
Engeland, 1896. De grens tussen het rijk en de echte wereld vervaagt, met desastreuze gevolgen. Om de juiste keuzes te maken zal Gemma (ik-figuur) de duistere kanten van haar ziel onder ogen moeten zien. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Schoolverhaal | Sprookjes
Nederlands | 453 pagina's | Full Moon, Amsterdam | 2010
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Jeffrey Archer To Cut a Long Story Short
The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession – and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to the creative financial talents of a member of...
Engels | 7 uur 42 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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J a Andrews I Let Her Go
Some secrets should have stayed buried... Lucy Mitchell was abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself in foster care. This is where she met Amber and Josh, but living in a strict foster home brought fears of its own. Fears that brought Amber and Lucy closer together. Amber and Lucy formed a pact. They said they would be friends for life and often found solace in the local woods to escape from their foster carer, Linda. This was a place they used to hide together, but when one day only...
Engels | 8 uur 26 minuten (384 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elena Wilkes The Man I Married
An addictive debut psychological thriller for fans of "The Girl on the Train", Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley. This is the story of Lucy and Paul. They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married. Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted. Until she found the photograph, the text messages. Until she uncovered Paul’s secrets. Now Lucy realises she doesn’t really know her husband. She doesn’t know if she can trust her own mind. She doesn’t know the lengths Paul would go to keep his perfect...
Engels | 9 uur 47 minuten (424 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Turncoat's Drum
The country is in turmoil in this thrilling historical adventure of the English Civil War. It is 1643, and the struggle between Parliament and the King erupts in the West Country, tearing families apart and setting village against village. But for some, this fight is not only about crown and country: it is far more personal than that. Royalist soldier Hugo Telling wishes Parliamentarian William Sparrow dead. This rivalry will take them across battlefields the breadth of England, and all for the...
Engels | 11 uur 25 minuten (504 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde’s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" depicts an execution and the harsh circumstances of life in prison. Based on Wilde’s own experience in prison, the poem contains details that do not judge but simply describe, in poetic terms, that which both horrifies and moves. The famous ballad from the late...
Engels | 31 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ian Buruma Anglomanie
Aan de hand van meningen van anglofiele intellectuelen en persoonlijke ervaringen probeert de auteur een antwoord te vinden op de vraag of de integratie met Europa de Britse identiteit zal schaden.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 365 pagina's | Atlas, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2000
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Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Author Frances Eliza...
Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Nadat zijn moeder is gestorven, moet David Copperfield van zijn stiefvader gaan werken in een fabriek. Hij wordt in huis genomen door een oud-tante, die hem in de leer doet bij een advocaat.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Nederlands | 828 pagina's | Brilliant Books, [Leeuwarden] | 2005
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Olly Jarvis Cut-Throat Defence
There is no man richer than a man without a price... Jack Kowalski is a young and newly qualified barrister, who finds himself working on the biggest drugs importation trial ever played out on English soil. With the assistance of his equally inexperienced instructing solicitor, Lara Panassai, Jack argues a savage ‘cut-throat’ defence – a risky tactic where the defendants blame each other – and quickly embroils some of the most eminent QCs in the land. As the son of Polish immigrants, the sensitive...
Engels | 9 uur 19 minuten (426 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Olly Jarvis Unconvicted
In a razor-sharp legal thriller, Jack Kowalski must win two challenging trials to save his reputation and his career. Junior barrister Jack Kowalski is crushed. His client Timothy Smart appears to have committed a monstrous crime while on bail – a bail application Jack fought hard to win. When a high-profile Polish footballer is charged with rape and demands a fellow countryman represent him, Jack must overcome his guilt and get back to work. Before long he takes on a second case, a GBH for instructing...
Engels | 9 uur 13 minuten (426 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Scarlett Peckham De graaf die ik ruïneerde
De geheimen van Charlotte Street - deel 2
Zij is mooi, rijk en roekeloos… Hij líjkt de meest saaie politicus van de House of Lords… Wanneer Lady Constance Stonewell per ongeluk het leven van de graaf van Apthorp verwoest met haar roddelcolumn, doet ze wat een eervolle vrouw moet doen: Ze biedt hem aan te trouwen, of op z’n minst te doen alsof ze zich verloven om zijn reputatie te redden. Ook al zal ze dan maanden met de saaiste man van Engeland moeten doorbrengen, die haar ook nog veracht. Julian Haywood, Graaf van Apthorp kan zich eindelijk...
Nederlands | 252 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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