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Neil M. Gunn Highland river
Na de loopgraven van de Eerste Wereldoorlog keert de volwassen Kenn Sutherland terug naar zijn geboortedorp in het noorden van Schotland, op zoek naar de rust en volmaaktheid die voor hem verloren zijn gegaan.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 242 pagina's | Canongate, Edinburgh | 2018
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Carys Davies West
Een Engelse kolonist en weduwnaar jaagt zijn droom na, bijna ten koste van zijn jonge dochter die bij zijn strenge zus achter moet blijven.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 149 pagina's | Granta, London | 2018
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Lex Croucher Reputation
Het leven in het huis van haar oom en tante is vreselijk saai tot Georgiana Frances ontmoet, hart en ziel van de feestjes waar Georgiana graag naar toe gaat.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 432 pagina's | Zaffre, London | 2021
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Julia Quinn Ten things I love about you
Baron Newbury, een oudere, welgestelde, weduwnaar is op zoek naar een jonge vrouw die voor een erfgenaam kan zorgen.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 377 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2021
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Joseph Conrad The secret agent
Een armoedige Londense winkelier blijkt een Russische spion te zijn. Hij krijgt de opdracht een aanslag te plegen op het Greenwich-observatorium. Met kleurenfoto's, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 83 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2010
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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time
Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...
Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth McNeill The Storm
When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...
Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Ian Ross War at the edge of the world
Cactus, een centurion in het Romeinse leger, voert strijd tegen de Picten in Schotland om Brittannië te behouden.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 389 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2015
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Arthur Conan Doyle | Patrick Nobes The hound of the Baskervilles
In de spookachtige sfeer van de eenzame en mistige moerasvlakten in Devonshire speurt Sherlock Holmes naar de oorzaak van de mysterieuze dood van Sir Charles Baskerville. Met zwart-witillustraties en opdrachten. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 104 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2019
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Olivia Lara Someday in Paris
Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...
Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jim Eldridge Murder at the British Museum
Daniel Wilson en zijn partner Abigail Fenton gaan in 1894 op onderzoek naar de dader van een moord in het British Museum.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 346 pagina's | a&b, London | 2019
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Jess Kidd Things in jars
Londen, 1863. Een vrouwelijke privé-detective gaat op zoek naar een ontvoerd meisje, half mens, half waterschepsel, en wordt daarbij geconfronteerd met haar eigen verleden.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 410 pagina's | Canongate, Edinburgh | 2019
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Dewey Gram Gladiator
Verhaalbewerking van de gelijknamige film over een Romeinse gladiator.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 75 pagina's | Pearson Education, Harlow | 2001
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Pat Barker Toby's room
Een jonge Engelse probeert te achterhalen wat er is gebeurd met haar broer die tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog als vermist en vermoedelijk overleden is opgegeven.
Fictie | Historische roman | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 263 pagina's | Penguin Books, London [etc.] | 2013
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A. Frank. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
In this High Victorian detective novel, Dyke Darrel investigates the robbery of the Central Railroad’s midnight express, during which Dyke’s friend Arnold Nicholson, a messenger, was murdered. He is helped by his sister Nell, with whom he was supposed to go on holiday. Dyke Darrell turns "the Gotham of the North" - as he calls Chicago - upside down in search of the culprit. On the way he encounters old ennemies, kidnappers and masquerades, as he tries to solve "the most audacious crime of my remembrance."...
Engels | 3 uur 58 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace
Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...
Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...
Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver
Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jane Davis At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock
London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. Like most working-class daughters, Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger. Star of the silver screen, Ursula Delancy, has just been abandoned by the man she left her husband for. Already hounded by the press, it won’t be long before she’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Patrice...
Engels | 14 uur 34 minuten (635 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Storming Party
Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War. 1643: Sir William Waller’s army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament’s bastion in the West – Bristol. The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has precious few men and even fewer guns with which to defend them. And to make matters worse, rumour has...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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