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The Midnight Hour
2024 || Paperback || Eve Chase || Michael Joseph
The new novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage, available to pre-order now!
Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return . . .
With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of antiques and shadowy figures, far from the grand stucco terraces. There she befriends another young person living on their wits. But can he help solve t...
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Transatlantic
Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction
2023 || Paperback || Julie Orringer || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The book that inspired the beautiful Netflix series
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The Wonder
Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
2022 || Paperback || Emma Donoghue || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the best-selling author of Room, a story of love pitted against evil and a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
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The Shadow Key
2024 || Paperback || Susan Stokes-Chapman || Harvill
There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?
Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to ...
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Blackfort's Crown
Paperback || Lars Stevens || Brave New Books
On a warm day in October of 1900, king Percival I dies at the palace in the capital. The state mourns his death. However, in the hours after the king's death, strange things happen. Adam Blackfort and Lucy Carston's parents vanish. Soon after, both Adam and Lucy are wanted for crimes against the state. Their history teacher, Mrs Wiggins, informs them of a coverup which happened long ago. Something that involved the king, the queen, Lucy's great grandfather, and Adam's uncle. The king, nor the...
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Frankenstein
The Modern Prometheus
2024 || Paperback || Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley || Mijnbestseller.nl
Embark on a chilling journey into the depths of the human psyche with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." This timeless gothic masterpiece unfolds the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who, consumed by ambition, creates a living being from lifeless matter. His creation, though seeking companionship and understanding, faces rejection and fear from his maker and society. This groundbreaking novel weaves themes of creation, responsibility, and the consequences of playing God, all ...
The Scarlet Letter
2023 || Paperback || Nathaniel Hawthorne || TimelessTomePublishing
Discover the timeless masterpiece that continues to captivate readers across generations—Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." This riveting novel takes you on a journey to 17th-century Puritan New England, where secrets and scandal shroud the lives of its inhabitants.
At the heart of the story is Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears an illegitimate child in a society that ruthlessly enforces its moral code. Branded with the scarlet letter "A" as a symbol of her sin, Hester must nav...
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Gafouré
Songs of an African Angel
Paperback || F. Driessen || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Gafouré is an ancient river spirit from the Niger river delta. Since times immemorial he has been the guardian of all living creatures in this earthly paradise.
However, when two of his protégés get captured by slave traders and are being sold to work on plantations in the America's, his world gets torn apart. He decides to follow them to the other side of the world.
Three generations later he manages to help them escape to the young Kingdom of the Netherlands, but even here they remain ha...
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A Room With A View
2023 || Paperback || E.M. Foster || Uitgeverij De-Luxe-Aap
A young English woman, who grew up in a protected and rigid environment, meets a freethinker in Florence who thoroughly disrupts her world.
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The Nightingale's Castle
2024 || Paperback || Sonia Velton || Abacus
Erzsébet Báthory, whose infamous place in history characterises her as the 'Blood Countess', is rumoured to have murdered 600 peasant girls. The Nightingale's Castle tells the gripping story of an intelligent and capable woman fighting to hold onto her wealth and independence, in a world where the poor and the wealthy alike face savage challenges.
In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gave birth to an illegitimate child. The infant, a girl, was swiftly bundled up and handed to a loc...