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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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P.D. James Death comes to Pemberley
Op de vooravond van een belangrijk feest in het begin van de 19e eeuw wordt de rust in het huis van de Darcy's verstoord door een zus van de vrouw des huizes die beweert dat haar man ergens in het bos vermoord is.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 310 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2011
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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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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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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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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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Connie Willis Zwarte winter
Een Engelse studente in de middeleeuwse geschiedenis die in 2054 een tijdreis naar het Engeland van 1320 maakt, komt door een berekeningsfout in het Oxfordshire van 1348 terecht.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Nederlands | 528 pagina's | Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2011
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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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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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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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Maryrose Wood Nachtschade
Jessamine (16) staat onder invloed van de duivelse Prins der Giffen. Hij belooft haar naar Weed te brengen, haar grote liefde die plotseling verdwenen is. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 164 pagina's | Fantoom, Amsterdam | 2011
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Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw
A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...
Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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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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Nicola May Het winkeltje in Cockleberry Bay
100 procent Britse feelgood, dat is 'Het winkeltje in Cockleberry Bay' van Nicola May. Het zit hoofdpersoon Rosa Larkin niet mee. Haar leven in Londen is een complete puinhoop. Als ze een vervallen winkel erft in een dorpje in Devon, denkt ze eerst aan verkopen. Het geld kan ze goed gebruiken om de boel op orde te krijgen. Helaas voor haar zit er een clausule bij de erfenis waarin bepaald is dat het winkeltje niet verkocht mag worden. Ze mag het alleen nalaten aan iemand die het verdient. Rosa besluit...
Fictie
Nederlands | 298 pagina's (ePub2, 7,9 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2020
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G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven
The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, "The Dragon and the Raven" is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven"...
Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Brenda Rickman Vantrease Anna van Praag
De liefdesgeschiedenis in het 15e eeuwse Engeland tussen een uit Praag gevluchte kopiiste, volgeling van de hervormer John Wycliffe en een priester, aflaathandelaar en spion van de aartsbisschop van Canterbury.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 473 pagina's | De Banier, [Apeldoorn] | 2010
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