• Richard Eyre National service

  "During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders

  "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Hugh Barker Hedge Britannia

  "Creations. Fromformal garden features to emphatically rustic barriers, Hugh exploresour hedges in all their diversity. Hedge Britannia offers a wittyinsight into the history of hedges and the way they relate to ourculture as well as our landscape. Hugh travels the breadth of Britainmeeting fellow enthusiasts who range from horticultural experts to theBrixton man who lovingly cultivated a whale-shaped hedge and ran intotrouble with the local council."

  Engels | 336 pagina's (13 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock

  Een advocaat uit Gibraltar helpt een joodse vriend, die in Marokko wordt beschuldigd van de moord op een jong meisje.

  Fictie | Detectiveroman

  Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Keith Jeffery MI6

  "A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world."

  Engels | 864 pagina's (8,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Dominic Barker Blart

  the boy who was wanted dead or alive - or both

  "The four corners of the earth by a bloodthirsty army, they must locate their comrades from the original quest. Together they may stand a chance of proving that Capablanca's was an innocent mistake, by finding the answer to a great mystery - what exactly did they do with Zoltab? And how could they be so careless as to forget...And so begins another hilarious and unforgettable adventure (with pigs) and a brilliant cast of characters including newcomers Uther Slywort the merchant and sociopathic Baron...

  Engels | 352 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Emma Smith Maidens' trip

  "In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine...

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

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• Lorenza Clifford Interview others

  "Interviewing prospective job candidates can be a real challenge, and sometimes the interviewers are just as nervous as the interviewee! If you are new to interviewing and need to learn some essential skills, Interview Others is the book for you. Full of advice on how to get the best from others and from yourself, it covers everything from preparing for an interview, to dealing with different types of interview situations, to the right (and wrong) questions to ask, to making a job offer. This book...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Emerald Fennell Shiverton Hall

  "They slowed as they reached the gate; two stone columns, each with its own crumbling angel perched on top. The angels held up a rusty, wrought-iron arch that read, in curling, serpentine letters: SHIVERTON HALL.Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall, which, as it turns out, is an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. And it is just as well that Shiverton Hall has made its offer, because Arthur had a horrible time at his previous school, and was desperate to leave....

  Engels | 300 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Carolyn Burke No regrets

  "Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Suzanne Braun Levine The woman's guide to second adulthood

  "Second Adulthood is a new stage of life for women over fifty. The first generation of socially emancipated women have reached an important frontier; they have fulfilled all their roles - daughter, wife, mother, career woman. Yet with longer life expectancy and better health they have no intention of retiring from the world. At the same time these women are experiencing an often bewildering array of physical readjustments: their brains experience a growth very similar to that in adolescence, they...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Dominic Barker Adam and the Arkonauts

  "That a woman matching Adam's mother's description left a letter with authorities in a city on the other side of the world. Unknown to Adam and the Doctor, Scabelax has lured them to the city to complete his terrible plan for world domination. As the different elements of the plot converge, a spectacular finale awaits . . ."

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Dominic Barker Blart

  the boy who set sail on a questionable quest

  "Innocent - who believes what everyone says all the time - and Kupverstich the Strange - an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one thing in common: they're all wrong. They must"

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Niki Segnit The flavour thesaurus

  "Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspirationfor what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is thefirst book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair.The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. The back section lists,alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and lesswell known flavour matches for each. The front section contains anentry for every flavour match listed in the back section and isorganised into 16 flavour themes such...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

  A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #15

  Toxic

  #1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fifteenth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna barely survived their most recent encounter with A. And it's not over yet . . . The police don't believe that the real A is still out there, but the girls know whatand whothey saw. If they don't track down this final tormentor soon, A will silence them forever.Full of unexpected twists and...

  Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #16

  Vicious

  #1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe explosive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been through a lot since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared five summers ago. A stalker named "A" has harassed them for their past mistakes and revealed their darkest secrets to the world. They've been on TV, hounded by the press, kicked out of school, arrested,...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Michael Mansfield Memoirs of a radical lawyer

  "A radical lawyer with an unparalleled commitment to his clients, driven by anger at injustice and hypocrisy, intelligent, handsome and dynamic, Michael Mansfield has been tearing down the citadels of arcane legal conventions for more than forty years. Unafraid of rejection or failure, Michael has taken on the most difficult and challenging cases of our times and despite the odds, won plenty. In Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael dissects many of them, revealing his motivations, meticulous approach...

  Engels | 512 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Lucy Wood Diving belles

  "Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...

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

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• Rodney Bolt Lorenzo da Ponte

  "By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cosí fan tutte and Don Giovanni. After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (4,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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