Zoekfilters
Resultaten (32)
vandaag verzonden
The Housekeepers (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Alex Hay || Headline
A riotous historical heist, introducing an extraordinary alliance of women you'll never forget...
morgen verzonden
Een nieuw begin
Hoe kan Clara de kinderen beschermen als het weeshuis gesloten wordt?
2024 || Paperback || Lizzie Page || Oceaan
'Ik hou van de manier waarop Lizzie Page feiten met fictie vermengt, en hoe haar personages tot leven komen. Ik ben een groot fan van haar werk.' Jill Mansell
'Wat bereikt Clara toch veel bij "haar" kinderen door aandacht te hebben voor ieder kind an sich. Een feest van herkenning en erg ontroerend.' Trudy Coenen, Leraar van het jaar
Voor de lezers van Diney Costeloe en Anne Jacobs
1949, Shilling Grange weeshuis. Na de breuk met haar verloofde probeert Clara haar leven weer op te pakken. Als lei...
Medici Heist
2024 || Paperback || Caitlin Schneiderhan || Atom
'A stunning debut. Weaving together a cast of loveable rogues, a richly detailed historical setting, and a cinematic thrill ride of a story, Medici Heist knocked us flat!'
The Duffer Brothers, creators of Netflix's STRANGER THINGS
Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal.
Sharp-witted conwoman Rosa Cellini arrives in the city the same day that the Medici Pope, Leo X, returns to take up the reins of power. This is not a coincidence. The new Pope is extor...
morgen verzonden
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...
morgen verzonden
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 ...
vandaag verzonden
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 ...
vandaag verzonden
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...
morgen verzonden
Sharpe's Command (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Bernard Cornwell || Harper Collins UK
SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.
morgen verzonden
The Revels
2024 || Paperback || Stacey Thomas || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'An evocative piece of storytelling that weaves sublimely like its witch knots' - Susan Stokes-Chapman The stage is set for the witch-hunt to begin...
morgen verzonden
This Other Eden
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2023
2024 || Paperback || Paul Harding || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2023.
Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian
'Begs to be read' Spectator
'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys' descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. But during one tumultuous summer at the dawn of the twentieth c...