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The Glassmaker
2024 || Paperback || Tracy Chevalier || The Borough Press
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to control.
Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime.
Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follo...
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The Ghost Theatre
Utterly transporting historical fiction, Elizabethan London as you've never seen it
2024 || Paperback || Mat Osman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BOOK OF THE YEAR - EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER and THE TIMES
'Beautifully written and completely convincing' Observer
'An excellent novel - riotous and abundant, full of vivid, dirty life' Guardian
On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar.
Together they create The Ghost Theatre: ...
Wolves of Winter (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Head of Zeus
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun.
Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them - and why.
What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in their work, they have the mea...
Ivar the Viking
A Romantic History Based upon Authentic Facts of the Third and Fourth Centuries
2024 || Paperback || Paul Belloni Du Chaillu || The Old Publishing House
Embark on a thrilling journey through the annals of history with "Ivar the Viking: A Romantic History Based upon Authentic Facts of the Third and Fourth Centuries." This captivating historical fiction masterpiece seamlessly weaves together real historical events and an imaginative narrative, immersing readers in the heart-pounding world of the Vikings.
Join the enigmatic Ivar on his epic quest across the tumultuous third and fourth centuries, where every page pulses with the pulse of battle, ...
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Glorious Exploits
2024 || Paperback || Ferdia Lennon || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves.
'Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
'A very special, very clever, very entertaining novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
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It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected, and h...
The Armour of Light / Druk 12 (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Ken Follett || Pan
The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.
Revolution is in the air
1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert.
Kingsbridge is on the edge
Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, makin...
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
2024 || Paperback || Douglas Westerbeke || Jonathan Cape
If you could never stay, where would you go? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets The Midnight Library in this dazzlingly epic debut novel.
Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she begins to succumb to a mysterious illness.
When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees ...
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The Ghost Cat
12 decades, 9 lives, 1 cat
2024 || Paperback || Alex Howard || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. 'The Ghost Cat is an Edinburgh delight: "mizzle-ridden" days were made for books like this!'LUCY RIBCHESTER, author of The Hourglass Factory'A beautiful story' Tiktok's @beansthegingercat'Enchanting, entertaining and engaging ...
Costanza
2024 || Paperback || Rachel Blackmore || Renegade Books
Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story.
In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes upon each other, a fatal attraction is born.
Their secret love burns with a passion that consumes them. But wit...
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Night Wherever We Go
2024 || Paperback || Tracey Rose Peyton || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A hugely impressive debut' Sarah Waters '[A] haunting and moving story' The Sunday Times 'A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to be missed' Nathan Harris