• Colum McCann Let the great world spin

  In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.

  Fictie

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

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• Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes

  "Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune

  A Novel

  From theNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,...

  Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant

  Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...

  Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Stella Rimington Rip tide

  MI5-agent Liz Carlyle doet onderzoek naar de achtergronden van een Britse Pakistaan die bij een poging om een schip van een grote hulporganisatie door een Frans marineschip is gearresteerd.

  Fictie | Thriller

  Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Celia Walden Harm's way

  Een 19-jarige Engelse gaat na haar eindexamen een jaar naar Parijs, waar ze bevriend raakt met een 40-jarige Ierse, wier flatgenoot hun vriendschap verstoort.

  Fictie

  Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Kate Worsley She rises

  Halverwege de 18e eeuw monstert een vijftienjarige jongen door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden in de havenstad Harwich in Groot-Brittannië aan bij de marine.

  Fictie | Historische roman | Zeeverhaal

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

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• Cynan Jones The Dig

  Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2014

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• D.W. Wilson Once you break a knuckle

  Twaalf korte verhalen die zich afspelen in West-Canada met als thema hoe de beste bedoelingen verkeerd kunnen uitpakken.

  Fictie | Verhalenbundel

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

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• Jesmyn Ward Salvage the bones

  Twaalf dagen uit het leven van een 15-jarige zwanger meisje, dat in 2005 met haar vader en drie broers de verschrikkingen van orkaan Katrina doorstaat.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub, 0,6 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Javier Cercas The speed of light

  Een schrijver probeert een roman te schrijven en slaagt daar ten slotte in wanneer hij een oorlogsverhaal op het spoor komt.

  Fictie

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

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• Anne Michaels The winter vault

  "Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

  Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Jaspreet Singh Chef

  Een chef-kok reist voor de laatste keer per trein van Delhi naar Kashmir en blikt terug op zijn leven dat is bepaald door de verdeling van Kasjmir tussen India en Pakistan.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Politieke roman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Jessie Burton The Miniaturist

  A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel

  The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....

  Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Will Self Umbrella

  Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.

  Fictie

  Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Michael Sims Dracula's guest

  "Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...

  Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

  "As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness

  "Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Juliet Nicolson Abdication

  "England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 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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