• Howard Jacobson The Finkler question

  Een niet-joodse man doet alle moeite om zich om te scholen tot jood, hetgeen hem erg veel moeite kost ook al wordt hij gesteund door joodse vrienden.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Patrick McGrath Constance

  Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller

  Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 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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• Michael Ondaatje The English patient

  Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzorgt een Canadese verpleegster een waarschijnlijk Engelse piloot, die in de woestijn is neergeschoten en niet meer weet wie hij is.

  Fictie

  Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Michèle Roberts Ignorance

  Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog zitten twee Franse meisjes samen op school; mede door de oorlogsomstandigheden worden ze gedwongen keuzes te maken met verstrekkende gevolgen.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 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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• Dirk Wittenborn Pharmakon

  Wanneer een Amerikaanse professor een pil ontwikkeld heeft waarvan men gelukkig wordt, is het resultaat voor zijn eigen gezin dramatisch.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller

  Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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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• Toni Morrison Beloved

  Discover Toni Morrison s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2014

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• William Boyd Restless

  Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerekruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader.

  Fictie | Spionageroman

  Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Tishani Doshi The pleasure seekers

  Als een 19-jarige Indiase jongeman in Engeland werkervaring komt opdoen, wordt hij verliefd op een Welsh meisje en weigert de verloofde die zijn ouders voor hem hebben gekozen.

  Fictie | Familieroman

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

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• Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through

  "The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax

  "Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory

  "Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Magnus Mills The restraint of beasts

  Een kersverse voorman van een Schots bedrijf wordt met een ploegje werkschuwe arbeiders voor een grote opdracht naar Engeland gestuurd, waar hij merkt hoe hij langzaam aan wordt geïndoctrineerd en zo meewerkt aan hun sabotage.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub, 0,4 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Tim Adler Hollywood and the Mob

  "From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled the moguls and the money, the Mob learned how to be cool from classic films like The Godfather and characters...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge

  "On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment

  "`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Jane Rusbridge The devil's music

  Als een dertiger na het overlijden van zijn vader terugkeert naar het vroegere vakantieverblijf van zijn ouders, roept dit herinneringen op aan zijn destijds spoorloos verdwenen moeder en zijn problematische kindertijd.

  Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Christine Sneed Little known facts

  "Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, Anna and Will, their father's fame threatens to permeate every aspect of their lives. For Anna - a diligent medical student with a promising future ahead of her but not so promising romantic prospects - the exploits of her celebrity father are a source of embarrassment and, at best, bemusement. Her brother...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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