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Sebastian Faulks Snow country
Een Oostenrijkse journalist en een ongeletterd meisje die een kortstondige ontmoeting in Wenen hadden in de jaren '20 van de vorige eeuw, ontmoeten elkaar in de jaren '30 weer in een psychiatrische kliniek waar zij serveerster is en hij artikelen komt schrijven.
Fictie | Historische roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 353 pagina's | Hutchinson Heinemann, London | 2021
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Hafsa Zayyan We are all birds of Uganda
Een jonge Engelse advocaat van Indiase afkomst ontdekt zijn Ugandese roots.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Engels | 370 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2022
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia Velvet was the night
Mexico City, begin jaren '70. Een secretaresse en een crimineel zijn onafhankelijk van elkaar op zoek naar een verdwenen studente en een fotorolletje.
Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 284 pagina's | Jo Fletcher Books, London | 2022
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Morowa Yejidé Creatures of passage
Nephthys Kinwell vervoert passagiers in een oude magische taxi in een mythisch Washington DC in de laten jaren zeventig. Via hulp aan haar passagiers en veel drank probeert zij de dood van haar tweelingbroer Osiris te vergeten.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 349 pagina's | Jacaranda, London | 2022
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Rose Tremain Lily
a tale of revenge
Engeland, 19e eeuw. Een 16-jarig weesmeisje kijkt terug op haar jeugd in een pleeggezin op het platteland en in een Londens weeshuis en makt duidelijk warom ze eem moord heeft gepleegd.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 275 pagina's | Chato & Windus, London | 2021
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Orhan Pamuk Nights of plague
Een sultan van het Ottomaanse Rijk isoleert in 1901 een eiland nadat daar een pestepidemie is uitgebroken. De inspecteur die hij stuurt wordt al snel dood gevonden, dus moeten zijn nicht en haar echtgenoot de situatie uitzoeken.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Engels | 683 pagina's | Faber, London | 2022
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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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Diana Gabaldon Go tell the bees that I am gone
a novel
Amerika, 1779. De familie Fraser is weer herenigd met de familie MacKenzie en hun kinderen maar de Onafhankelijkheidoorlog woedt en komt steeds dichter bij Fraser's Ridge, de nederzetting van Jamie Fraser.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 902 pagina's | Delacorte Press, New York | 2021
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Adam O'Riordan The falling thread
Cruciale gebeurtenissen uit het leven van drie kinderen van een welvarende eigenaar van een katoenspinnerij in Manchester tussen 1890 en 1914.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 257 pagina's | Bloomsbury Circus, London | 2021
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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 Harvest of Swords
Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale. As they struggle through the bitterly cold Dorset winter, their hard-won experience is enough to lead their men, but never...
Engels | 12 uur 21 minuten (541 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter King's Men Crow
It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one...
Engels | 12 uur 10 minuten (535 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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Stacey Halls Mrs England
Engeland, 1904. Nanny Ruby May vertrekt naar Yorkshire om te zorgen voor de drie kinderen van de familie England maar al snel ontdekt ze dat er veel niet klopt in dit gezin waardoor ze tegelijkertijd geconfronteerd wordt met haar eigen verleden.
Historische roman
Engels | 419 pagina's | Manilla Press, London | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Lark Returning
Can Lark take the path of the woman who went before her and learn to follow her heart? Lark is a much-loved forces sweetheart spreading comfort as she sings in the music halls while Scotland’s sons fight in the Great War. But despite her fortune, Lark yearns for a life away from the crowds. She sets out to make a fresh start in the Border country seeking the contentment that has eluded her. Decades earlier, Lark’s great-grandmother, Jane, found herself in the same hills, in unhappy circumstances....
Engels | 12 uur 55 minuten (565 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill
She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...
Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth McNeill Turn of the Tide
They have survived the worst they could imagine – now they must face the future. After a catastrophic storm tears through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile, Jessie, her sister-in-law, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie, the lynchpin of the family, who...
Engels | 5 uur 32 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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T.A. Williams Chasing Shadows
Amy had it all – money, brains and beauty. And then the accident happened. The Present Day: Left blind and without her family, Amy feels she needs to escape. On a trip along the Camino de Santiago - the Way of St James - she is accompanied by the mysterious and troubled Luke. Having been set up to help Amy by a mutual friend, Luke finds he is running from his past... 1314: A Templar Knight, Luc, is also running. He meets the wife of a former comrade, now blinded in a terrifying attack: Aimee....
Engels | 10 uur 49 minuten (471 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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