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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
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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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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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Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance
Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...
Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 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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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (292 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Leopard Man's Story
"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart. Who is the murderer and why did he hate the lion trainer so much? Who does the "Leopard Man" suspect and will he be able to reveal the truth? What will happen to...
Engels | 10 minuten (7,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The 200,000 Franc Reward
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. There is a mystery to be solved. A baroness and a great deal of money have disappeared from Paris, and neither her husband nor the police can find any trace of her. Enter the infamous Arsene Lupin, master thief, gentleman burglar and greatest criminal mind of all time. "The 200,000 Franc Reward" is a story about robbery, betrayal, and criminal investigation, great for readers who want to dive into a classic detective series,...
Engels | 44 minuten (32 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Infernal Trap
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When Dugrival commits suicide, his widow swears revenge and sets an inescapable trap for our hero... The fourth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic detective series perfect for readers who love Arthur Conan Doyle’s...
Engels | 52 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Sign of the Shadow
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. On 15th April, every day, Louise d’Ernemont leaves the house in the morning with her daughter and does not return home until nightfall – and nobody knows where she goes. It turns out that she is in fact the granddaughter of the wealthy d'Ernemont, who was guillotined on that exact date years earlier. A lost fortune, hidden jewels, a family mystery, it’s time for Arsene Lupin to step in to help the heirs of d’Ernemont. The...
Engels | 47 minuten (34 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Red Silk Scarf
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Arsene Lupin is suddenly and suspiciously willing to share some secrets with Inspector Ganimard which will help the police unveil a murder. But is Lupin helping out of the goodness of his heart or does a large jewel connected to the deceased have anything to do with it? The fifth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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M J Lee The Killing Time
As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing... Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious Shanghai, an explosion is long overdue....
Engels | 9 uur 1 minuut (419 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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M J Lee The Murder Game
A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts – and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov... someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more bodies start appearing, time is running out to solve...
Engels | 9 uur 30 minuten (440 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet
"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...
Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen
"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henrik Ibsen Little Eyolf
In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility’. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of desire towards Alfred and is jealous of everyone who comes near him. But when little Eyolf is lured away by the Rat-Wife and drowns in a lake, the couple must...
Engels | 2 uur 36 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and seductive Hilda Wangel, who also plays a part in Ibsen's previous drama "The Lady from the Sea." The Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)...
Engels | 2 uur 56 minuten (128 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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