• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Liza Cody Monkey wrench

  Een zwaargewicht vrouwelijke worstelaar belooft een vriendin de moordenaar van dier zuster op te sporen.

  Fictie | Detectiveroman

  Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Helen Cross Spilt milk, black coffee

  "Handsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade of blank and bashful beauties, he remains a slave to boozy blonde goddess Jackie, his fellow-worker at the department store in town. Pushing forty, with bubblegum hair and a filthy laugh, Jackie is an unlikely muse. She is openly entertained by Amir's teetotalism and moral sincerity, but behind her whip-smart wit is a forgiving...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• 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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• 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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• Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic to the Stars - Book 7

  Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs . . . or at least she will be, once her husband Luke introduces her to his new A-list client Sage Seymour.Becky sets her heart on a new career she's going to be a stylist to the stars! And when a chance encounter thrusts her into the limelight, she grabs her opportunity. But in between choosing clutch bags and chasing celebrities, Becky loses touch with her family and her best friend . . . Caught up in the whirlwind of Tinseltown,...

  Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 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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• 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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• Gail Godwin Flora

  Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.

  Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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• 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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• Kamila Shamsie Kartography

  "And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"

  Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows

  "In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat

  The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband...

  Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014

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