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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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Donna Ashcroft The Christmas Countdown
It’s that time of year again, snowflakes are fluttering and the countdown to Christmas has begun! Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the two people she loves the most, she flees to her eccentric Aunt Clara’s cosy cottage to hide away over the winter season. But kind, impulsive Aunt Clara has other ideas... She’s not about to see her favourite niece wallowing in sadness during the most wonderful time of the year. So, with the help of her close...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Justin David Tales of the Suburbs
Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city. Will he choose to play it safe in Welston or take a chance on a new...
Engels | 3 uur 2 minuten (133 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Deborah Jenkins Braver
Nominated for the Writer’s Guild Best First Novel Award! Hazel has never felt normal. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, she isolates herself from others and sticks to rigid routines in order to cope with everyday life. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Virginia, a church minister, Hazel begins to venture outside her comfort zone. Having rebuilt her own life after a traumatic loss, Virginia has become the backbone of her community, caring for those in need and mentoring disadvantaged...
Engels | 8 uur 27 minuten (370 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Pauline Rowson The Chale Bay Murders
Meet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses. Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller. An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor. When he observes mysterious lights out at sea, he reports them to the police. The local police think...
Engels | 8 uur 20 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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
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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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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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
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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
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Pauline Rowson The Isle of Wight Murders
A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf course. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he’s on holiday trouble follows him... On an abandoned golf course, Horton finds a distraught, young woman with a gun in her hand, crouching over one of the derelict bunkers. Then the smell hits him. A dead man lies there. Dressed in walking gear, his body decomposing. The woman with the gun says she’s his sister....
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Julian Barnes Alsof het voorbij is
‘Alsof het voorbij is’ van Julian Barnes gaat over de tijd, die Tony Webster lijkt te hebben ingehaald. Opeens is hij een man van middelbare leeftijd, die zonder weemoed terugkijkt op zijn schooljaren. Maar het geheugen is niet perfect. Het kan altijd verrassen, zoals een brief van een notaris zal bewijzen. ‘Alsof het voorbij is’ is een lang nazinderende vertelling over ouderdom, berouw en herinneringen die je altijd weer te grazen hebben.’ – de Morgen Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 4 uur 24 minuten (253 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2018
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Jill Mansell Stuur me een berichtje
Stuur me een berichtje van Jill Mansell is een hartverwarmende en romantische feelgood over een vrouw die opnieuw moet beginnen. Voor iedereen die houdt van de romans van Jojo Moyes en Sophie Kinsella. Waarom moest Essie ook zo nodig haar ware gevoelens in die brief zetten? Hij was alleen voor haar beste vriendin bestemd, en niet voor het hele internet. Dan had ze nu nog gewoon een huis, een baan en een vriend gehad. Aan de andere kant, als ze niet opeens alles was kwijtgeraakt, zou ze Zillah en...
Nederlands | 9 uur 51 minuten (567 MB) | Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2018
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Arthur Conan Doyle De hond van de Baskervilles
Een mysterie in het Engelse Dartmoor. Een bloeddorstige hond dwaalt rond door de mistige heuvels. Hij heeft het schijnbaar gemunt op de Baskervilles. Nadat Charles Baskerville op raadselachtige wijze om het leven is gekomen, vreest zijn erfgenaam Henry Baskerville voor zijn leven. Zijn de lokale volksverhalen juist en rust er een vloek op de adellijke familie? De excentrieke detective Sherlock Holmes onderzoekt de zaak, daarbij geholpen door zijn goede vriend Dr. Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle schreef...
Nederlands | 5 uur 31 minuten (555 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2018
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Arthur Conan Doyle Zilverbles
Onder mysterieuze omstandigheden verdwijnt het renpaard Zilverbles, vlak voor een belangrijke wedstrijd. Een verdwaasde staljongen en een dode trainer blijven achter. Kan Sherlock Holmes het waardevolle dier terugvinden? Samen met zijn goede vriend Dr. Watson reist hij af richting Dartmoor, de plaats des onheils. Zilverbles is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes van de hand van Arthur Conan Doyle. Het verhaal verscheen in de bundel De memoires van Sherlock Holmes. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 1 uur 6 minuten (94 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2018
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Isa Maron Eindspel
De Noordzeemoorden 4
In een kleine woning in Amsterdam-Noord worden de gruwelijk toegetakelde lichamen van een hoogbejaard stel gevonden. Rechercheur Maud Mertens stort zich op de zaak, terwijl ze samen met haar collega Niels werkt aan een zaak waarbij er hoofden zijn gevonden in de tuin van de villa. Kyra Slagter vertrekt naar Londen, de seriemoordenaar die meer lijkt te weten van de verdwijning van haar zus wil praten. Ze komt steeds dichterbij, gevaarlijk dichtbij... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 12 uur 41 minuten (731 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2017
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Julian Fellowes Belgravia
Een grandioze roman van de man achter Downton Abbey
Welkom in Belgravia… Op een steenworp afstand van Buckingham Palace, achter de deuren van Londens meest imposante huizen, hebben schandalen en intriges vrij spel. Op 15 juni 1815 organiseerde de hertogin van Richmond in Brussel een groots bal ter ere van de hertog van Wellington. Vlak na middernacht kwam onverwacht het bericht dat Napoleon de grens was overgestoken, waardoor Wellington zijn mannen op stel en sprong de oorlog in moest leiden. Veel officieren die op het slagveld omkwamen, droegen...
Nederlands | 15 uur 47 minuten (909 MB) | AW Bruna, Amsterdam | 2016
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Keris Stainton The One Who's Not the One
A feel good, laugh out loud romantic comedy
‘I absolutely loved this book! I was laughing out loud at certain scenes and when I tried to go to bed I ended up giggling myself into a fit thinking about them. Absolutely amazing… A delightful, HILARIOUS book.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars Cat’s life has hit a brick wall. Since her ex ditched her without ceremony five years ago she’s quit stand-up comedy, landed in a steady but dull job, and lives in a tiny flat with roommates she knows only as The One Who Eats All My Food and The One Who Has Really...
Engels | 6 uur 41 minuten (294 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Kate Ryder Beneath Cornish Skies
To an outsider, Cassandra Shaw's life looks perfect. She lives in a beautiful, luxurious house in the English countryside, with a handsome, wealthy boyfriend who insists she needn't do a day's work in her life. But Cassie knows that something is not right. Her boyfriend has grown colder, treating her more like a housekeeper than a future wife. And her time feels empty and purposeless. Cassandra has always been riddled with insecurities and self-doubt, but, just for once, she decides to take a chance...
Engels | 10 uur 35 minuten (465 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sue Watson Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake
Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake is a truly heart-warming and hilarious read about sisters, love and finding the courage to be yourself – one snowflake at a time. For Tamsin Angel, Christmas is always the biggest and best... chic parties and a little showbiz sparkle are a must. This year though, things aren’t going quite as planned... With bailiffs suddenly at the door and her husband nowhere to be found, it looks like Christmas just got downsized. Moving into her sister’s flat, she wonders...
Engels | 9 uur 2 minuten (400 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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