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Julia Quinn | Shonda Rhimes Koningin Charlotte
Koningin Charlotte van Mecklenburg-Strelitz moet na haar huwelijk met George III haar weg vinden in de politiek van het hof, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd haar hart moet bewaken.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 428 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2023
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Sarah Ladd De erfenis van Hollythorne House
roman
In het Engeland van de 19e eeuw gaat een weduwe een onzekere toekomst tegemoet wanneer ze naar een afgelegen landgoed vlucht met haar zoontje. Een onverwachte ontmoeting met een oude geliefde zet alles op scherp.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 333 pagina's | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2023
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Ken Follett De wapens van het licht
Kingsbridge, 1792. Een Engelse spinster probeer het hoofd boven water te houden en haar zoon een zo goed mogelijk bestaan te bieden, maar het industriële tij lijkt zich tegen de arbeiders te keren. Ondertussen groeit de macht van Napoleon Bonaparte, tot grote zorg van de omliggende landen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 653 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2023
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Agave Kruijssen Leonora
de eerste hertogin van Gelre
Prinses Eleonora (1318-1355) wordt als veertienjarig meisje uitgehuwelijkt aan Reinoud II van Gelre (1295-1343). Tegen de achtergrond van de Honderdjarige Oorlog probeert ze van haar huwelijk een succes te maken, maar dan begint Reinoud geestelijk achteruit te gaan en neemt zijn raadsheer de macht over.
Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 286 pagina's | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
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Julie Klassen Een schrijfster aan zee
'Een schrijfster aan zee' is een historische roman van Julie Klassen en het tweede deel in haar serie De kust van Devonshire. Pension Sea View opent opnieuw de deuren voor geheimen en romantiek. Als de hertog en hertogin van Kent intrekken in de aangrenzende vakantiewoning, wordt de zussen gevraagd onderdak te bieden aan hun mannelijke personeel. Ondertussen besluit Emily haar schrijversdromen te vervullen en krijgt ze hierbij hulp van de aantrekkelijke secretaris van de hertog. Maar wanneer een...
Nederlands | 12 uur 13 minuten (704 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2024
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Audrey Blake De assistente van de chirurg
‘De assistente van de chirurg’ van Audrey Blake is het eerste deel van de serie over Nora Beady. Londen, 1845. Nadat haar hele familie is overleden aan cholera, groeit Nora Beady op bij chirurg Horace Croft. Daar ontwikkelt ze zich tot een onmisbare assistente: ze plaatst hechtingen, maakt anatomische illustraties en voert experimenten uit. Alles in het diepste geheim, want het is voor vrouwen streng verboden om geneeskunde te beoefenen. Wanneer dokter Daniel Gibson de praktijk komt versterken, moet...
Nederlands | 11 uur 2 minuten (635 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places
"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sasha Morgan Return to Lilacwell
Can love bloom in Lilacwell once more? Newly engaged couple Jasper and Adira have finally settled into The Laurels manor, and officially bid farewell to their respective city lives. Inspired by their journey, Rory, Adira’s friend and ex-colleague, yearns for a fresh start and rekindles his relationship with Lilacwell’s innkeeper, Cassie. But Cassie has been loved and left before and is reluctant to trust Rory. Will she dare to trust again, or will the allure of his promising law career sway his...
Engels | 8 uur 5 minuten (359 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
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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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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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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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Kennedy Kerr Dreams of Magpie Cove
Ellie McTavish’s world turns upside down when a deadly diagnosis comes out of nowhere. Feeling adrift as she recovers from life-saving surgery at home, she impulsively bids on a vintage caravan, only to discover the next day that she’s won it. So she grabs her friend Fee and takes it on an impromptu road trip...well, that’s the plan, until it breaks down outside the tiny village of Magpie Cove in Cornwall. Unexpectedly stranded, the two women don’t have much choice but to stay there until it’s fixed....
Engels | 6 uur 27 minuten (291 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lilac Mills A Stitch in Time in Applewell
It’s not just hems that are frayed in Applewell... Gracie rescues old clothes and cast-offs from Applewell’s charity shop, making them into cute and fresh outfits, which she then sells in her little shop. Turning a profit is hard at the best of times, let alone when new arrival Lucas appears... After running away from the village in his teens, Lucas has finally returned to an uncomfortable amount of fanfare and gossip. His job requires him to streamline homeless charity, UnderCover, and his plans...
Engels | 9 uur 38 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lilac Mills Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell
George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love. George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and keeping social interactions to a minimum, but his carefully balanced system is now under threat... Nessa Millbrook can’t wait to get settled into her new home in quaint, rural Applewell. Everyone in the village is so friendly – except her neighbour, George, who wants nothing to do with her....
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Teresa F. Morgan Mistletoe at the Manor
A heart-warming Christmas romance set in Cornwall! Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Victoria Walters, Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley... Can Beth learn to open her heart this Christmas...? Between setting up her boutique and raising her six-year-old son, single mum Beth Sterling has little time for romance. When she moves her business into a cosy converted stable on the scenic Trenouth Estate, she finds herself clashing with the handsome but aloof owner of the estate, Tristan Trenouth. When...
Engels | 8 uur 29 minuten (378 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Kiley Dunbar Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
A fairytale ending isn’t just for fiction... The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months after the winter flood that destroyed all its wares. When newest resident Joy Foley arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl, she is set to drag the Bookshop into the 21st century by virtue of her tech expertise. But Joy has a secret. She is on the run from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere... So when Radia Pearl befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman...
Engels | 10 uur 2 minuten (444 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Teresa F. Morgan Sunsets and Happy Ever Afters
Escape to Somerset and Cornwall in this fun and flirty romance! After a painful divorce, Maya Rosevear is determined to find love again. But with her busy schedule running a mobile beauty business and raising her kids, she turns to online dating. Along the way, she unexpectedly forms a friendship with Sam Trescott, the father of her daughter’s best friend. As they navigate their own emotional baggage, Maya and Sam can't help but wonder if they're destined to be more than just friends. Will...
Engels | 7 uur 41 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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