• Celia Rees Pirates!

  "When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Celia Rees Sorceress

  "As Witch Child ends so Sorceress begins. Alison Ellman is still searching for information about Mary Newbury; she has a diary and some scattered information about other people in Mary's life, but Mary has disappeared into the forests and Alison has no way of following her. But when she meets Agnes Herne, Alison encounters the person who is going to tell her all about Mary's life after she leaves Beulah. Agnes is a descendant of Mary's and has a special skill which allows her to be in touch with...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots

  "When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...

  Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014

  E-book

• Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

  "Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

  Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

  "It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Robert Cabot The Joshua tree

  "Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Matthew Bishop | Michael Green The road from ruin

  "Bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes, lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous 30 years. Capitalism based on markets, especially"

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Marie Lu The Young Elites

  I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina''s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family''s good name and standing in the way...

  Engels | ePub3, 3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014

  E-book

• Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics

  "Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Parker Bilal The golden scales

  "Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Edward Thomas Smith Luck

  "For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the tough, flinty Yorkshireman, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck....

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

  Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

  Fictie | Thriller

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

  E-book

• Jack Beatty The lost history of 1914

  "In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard account of the war's outbreak, Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Alan MacDonald | Mark Beech Trolls go home!

  "After a nasty incident with a goat, the Troll family are forced to leave their native Norway and make a new home somewhere else. Unfortunately they choose the quiet suburb of Biddlesden. Faced with the prospect of `Baked Beans' for dinner, and the awful spectre of `The Shower', things are going to get ugly (and possibly hairy and smelly, too). But worst of all, they have moved next door to the Priddle family. Big mistake."

  Engels | 128 pagina's (5,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• J.A.E. Curtis Manuscripts don't burn

  "The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published at all, and his plays reached the stage only with huge difficulty. His greatest masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel written in the 1930s in complete secrecy, largely at night, did not...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Network with confidence

  "Are you fed up with trawling round networking events that take vast amounts of time for little return? Do you feel queasy stepping into a room of total strangers to represent yourself or your business? Then this is the book you've been waiting for.Networking is something that can really improve our career prospects, but it is something that many people actively dread. With advice on how to conquer your nerves, ask the right questions, find out about the right events (and work out which ones to avoid),...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Herbie Brennan Faerie wars

  "Attack by the Faeries of the Night. But time is against Pyrgus Malvae and soon he is relying on Henry and Mr Fogarty not just to get him home but also to solve the puzzle that surrounds his exile.A wonderful, gripping, page-turning read full of the kind of detail that will ensure that this fabulous fantastic novel will have readers young and old holding their breath as the story unfolds."

  Engels | 368 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw

  "This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

  E-book

• Simon Scarrow Gladiator

  Vengeance

  The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....

  Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014

  E-book

Paginanavigatie