Emma Leads Claire

historical roman

Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...

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Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022

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Bas Steman Morgan

my love; a novel

'Deeply moving! Many people will be touched by this story.' Adriaan van Dis, international bestselling author. A small town in Wales in 2006. Betrys, now in her late eighties, still longs for Morgan, the love of her life who perished during Operation Market Garden, as the Second World War was winding to a close. A Dutch writer inadvertently gets caught up in this story from long ago, in a way he could have never imagined. Based on a fascinating true story, Morgan, My Love is a surprising, romantic...

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Engels | 283 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021

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Herman Adèr Father, mother

In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how very evocative various scenes are. It could be said that the novella deals with Death. With the sudden death of the father, and with the slow, painful deterioration of the mother into her dementia, followed...

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Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2) | Johannes van Kessel Publishing, Huizen | 2017

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Jan Siebelink In my father's garden

Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...

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Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013

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Hilary Mantel Bring up the bodies

Thomas Cromwell, de belangrijkste raadsheer van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII moet diens vrouw Anna Boleyn het veld laten ruimen voor Jane Semour, op wie de koning zijn oog heeft laten vallen.

Fictie | Historische roman

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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Sophie Kinsella Mini Shopaholic - Book 6

Like mother, like daughter...!Shopaholic Becky Brandon (n e Bloomwood)'s two-year-old is ... spirited. She knows what she wants, whether it's a grown-up Prada handbag or a toy pony (40% off, so a bargain, surely?) When yet another shopping trip turns to mayhem, Becky decides it's time to give Minnie her own pocket money. Is it a bad sign when Minnie goes instantly overdrawn?Minnie isn't the only one in financial crisis. As the Bank of London collapses, people are having to Cut Back. Everyone needs...

Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010

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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic & Baby - Book 5

Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual...

Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009

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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic Abroad - Book 2

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need - and she's really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to them all. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few...

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009

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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic Ties The Knot - Book 3

For once in Becky Bloomwood s life, things are going smoothly. She s got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people s money and getting paid for it). She s got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They ve even opened a joint bank account (although they can t quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense).Then Luke proposes and all of a sudden life gets hectic. Becky s mum in rural Surrey wants one thing, Luke s mother in New York wants the...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009

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