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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Wedding Ring
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Yvonne d’Origny’s life is full of misery, hatred and fear. She has tried to divorce her malicious husband, but he is willing to go to great lengths to get what he wants – and that’s her. He even uses their son as a pawn. How will Yvonne’s story unfold, and what will Lupin’s role be in it? The second story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsène Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene...
Engels | 39 minuten (28 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Suzanna Jansen De hemel is goud
biografie van een race
De hemel is goud van Suzanna Jansen, bekend van de bestseller Het pauperparadijs, verkent de grens tussen ambitie en overmoed. In mei 1903 scheuren honderden coureurs en één dame over bochtige zandwegen in de beruchte automobielenrace van Parijs naar Madrid. De tocht kent zo'n dramatisch verloop dat ze al in Bordeaux moet worden gestaakt. De roekloosheid van de renners en het lot van pioniers als Renault en Bugatti weerspiegelt de nietsontziende drang om te winnen. Door deze geschiedenis vlecht...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Tamara McKinley Eiland in de wolken
Een jonge vrouw die de armoede in Schotland in 1855 is ontvlucht en een nieuw, succesvol bestaan heeft opgebouwd in Australië vertelt haar levensverhaal aan haar dochter en kleindochter.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 306 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2018
E-book