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Lyn G Farrell Wacky man
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'An astonishing tour de force!' -- The Daily Mail'Book of the Year!' -- Clio Gray, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted authorA striking debut from the winner of the 2015 Luke Bitmead BursaryMy new shrink asks me, 'What things do you remember about being very young?' It's like looking into a murky river, I say. Memories flash near the surface like fish coming up for flies. The past peeps out, startles me, and then is gone... Amanda secludes...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matt Wilven Blackbird Singularity
Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home. ' -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash LandingVince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn
As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Amanda Prowse Another Love - No Greater Courage
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HUSBAND'S WIFE. In the early years, she was happy. Romilly loved her stunning house, her kind husband and gorgeous daughter. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large glass of wine at the end of the day couldn't fix. But then a glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle became two. Once, Romilly's family were everything to her. Now, after years of hiding the drinking, she must finally admit that she has found another love... PREVIOUS...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Amanda Prowse Imogen's Baby
A Short Story - No Greater Miracle
Can Imogen overcome life's challenges and have the baby she longs for? It's hard enough having a baby on your own. But for Imogen, 24 years old and blind since birth, it will be harder than most. Her journey will take her from heartache to hope and back again. But Imogen has never let blindness rule her life, and she isn't going to start now... Inspired by a real-life story, this is a moving and gripping read from number 1 bestseller Amanda Prowse. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 98 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Fischel Witchwild - Witchworld
Flo is a thoroughly modern witchgirl. She has a spellstick, travels about in her skyrider and wouldn't know a cauldron if she fell into one. But when her grandmother turns up on an actual boomstick, warning that ghouls are about to attack Witchworld, Flo realises that everything she's been told about being a witch is just hocus pocus... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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P.K. Lynch Armadillos
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'P. K. Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound... Read this one' -- Jeanette Winterson'A truly stunning debut' -- Matt Bendoris, The Scottish Sun'Just wonderful, haunting, real... ' -- Fiona Shaw'... a brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable. ' -- Vicky Feaver**Featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour**Aggie is fifteen, a 'sub' from a 'sub' family, one of Texas' downtrodden. Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out....
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Anne Rogers Ben
Diary of A Heroin Addict
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all.... but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that...
Engels | PDF, 1,8 MB | M-Y Books ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Cline The Girls
‘Take it to the beach and savour every page’ Observer
A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction.If you’re lost, they’ll find you…Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It’s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful.If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Markus Zusak The Book Thief
The life-affirming number one international bestseller
Life affirming, triumphant and tragic ... masterfully told... but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the...
Engels | ePub3, 11 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Hendrik Groen The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old
The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old ... 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Elizabeth Fremantle The girl in the glass tower
Arbella Stuart is kandidaat voor de troonopvolging van Elizabeth I en wordt daarom opgevoed in complete isolatie uit angst voor complotten tegen haar maar met hulp van dichteres Aemilia Lanyer gaat ze op zoek naar vrijheid.
Fictie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Jonathan Safran Foer Here I Am
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns...
Engels | ePub3, 3,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Cathy Cassidy Broken Heart Club
De vrienden Eden, Hasmita, Andie, Ryan en Tasha hebben gezworen dat ze voor altijd beste vrienden zullen blijven. Niets kan hun band verbreken. Of toch wel? Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Gijsbert Hanekroot | Sebastiaan Vos David Bowie
the seventies
Fotoboek met korte biografie, persoonlijk verhaal en context bij de foto's.
Non-fictie
Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 128 pagina's | Uitgeverij Conserve, Schoorl | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Paul Gellings Café Egidius
gedichten
Poëziebundel met eigen werk en vertalingen.
Non-fictie
Duits | Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 66 pagina's | Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Alfred Birney The interpreter from Java
Een man probeert zijn wrede vader beter te leren kennen die in Nederlands-Indië is opgegroeid.
Fictie
Engels | 480 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The labyrinth of the spirits
Alicia Gris, die in dienst is van de geheime dienst van Franco, vormt met Vargas een duo dat de verdwijning van schrijver en ex-gevangenisdirecteur Mauricio Valls onderzoekt.
Fictie
Engels | 805 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Dickensian
De personages uit de romans van Charles Dickens wonen allemaal bij elkaar in de buurt in het Victoriaanse Londen. Nieuwe verwikkelingen doen zich voor na de moord op Jacob Marley, de zakenpartner van Ebenezer Scrooge.
Fictie
Film
Allison Pataki Sisi
empress on her own; a novel
Het leven van Elisabeth ‘Sisi’ van Beieren (1837-1898) vanaf 1868 tot aan haar dood.
Fictie
Engels | 446 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2017
Gedrukt boek
2016