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Tan Twan Eng The house of doors
Somerset Maugham reist in 1921 naar Penang (Malesië) voor een bezoek aan zijn jeugdvriend.
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Engels | 306 pagina's | Canongate, Edinburgh | 2023
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Kevin Jared Hosein Hungry ghosts
Trinidad, jaren veertig. Na de vermissing van haar man krijgt een welgestelde vrouw een verhouding met een arme man die tijdelijk als nachtwaker op haar boerderij komt werken. Het lot van hun families raakt met elkaar verweven op manieren die ze niet hadden kunnen voorzien.
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Engels | 327 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2022
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Eleni Kyriacou The unspeakable acts of Zina Pavlou
Een Grieks-Cypriotische vrouw wordt in 1954 in Londen beschuldigd van moord op haar schoondochter.
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Engels | 375 pagina's | Head of Zeus, an Aries book, London | 2023
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Jon Fosse A shining
Een man rijdt in zijn auto zonder te weten waar hij heen gaat, slaat linksaf en rechtsaf en komt vast te zitten. Het wordt donker en begint te sneeuwen. In plaats van hulp te halen, loopt hij een pad in het bos af, wetend dat het dwaas is om te doen.
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Engels | 48 pagina's | Fitzcarraldo Editions, London | 2023
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C.S. Forester Payment deferred
Bankbediende William Marble staat aan de financiële afgrond als er plotseling een rijk jong familielid voor de deur staat.
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Engels | 186 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2023
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Nikola Scott The life I stole
Een vrouw neemt na de Tweede Wereldoorlog de identiteit van een overleden vriendin over.
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Engels | 288 pagina's | H Review, London | 2023
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Victoria Mackenzie For thy great pain have mercy on my little pain
Twee Engelse mystici uit de 14e eeuw vertellen beurtelings over hun visioenen van Christus tegen de achtergrond van pest, rebellie en de opkomst van ketters.
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Engels | 163 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
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The marsh king's daughter
Een man ontvoert een meisje en houdt haar meer dan jaren gevangen in een onherbergzaam gebied in Amerika. Samen krijgen ze een dochter die haar vader adoreert maar langzaam ontdekt wat zijn ware aard is.
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Laura Shepperson The heroines
Prinses Phaedra wordt op zestienjarige leeftijd als bruid meegenomen door prins Theseus van Athene.
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Engels | 338 pagina's | Sphere, London | 2023
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Dianna Wilson Sirkovsky Just one pebble
Als de 9-jarige Braeden op een dag een man langs de weg ziet zitten die geen eten, geen spullen en geen huis heeft, bedenkt hij een plan om hem te helpen. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal. Prentenboek met gekleurde illustraties. Vanaf 5 jaar.
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Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2023
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lotte Kirkeby The Reunion
Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated...
Engels | 3 uur 20 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate
Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing
Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister...
Engels | 13 uur 50 minuten (606 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Damion Hunter Empire's Edge
Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain… Centurion Faustus Valerianus has already proven his bravery and skill, marching alongside Julius Agricola for six gruelling years to conquer the north of Britain. But that was just the beginning... With Agricola back in Rome, Faustus is given a new mission: to journey to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar and help him reclaim his rightful throne. But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia, fears grow that the...
Engels | 13 uur 35 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places
"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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