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'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan

'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris

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After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she...

Flor has a gift: she can predict when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake her sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death? Or someone else's? Does she have other motives?

Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come.

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.

Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not.

Howeve...

One family's search for a better life: an immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko

FOUR GENERATIONS. THREE SISTERS. ONE DIVIDED NATION.

India, 1898. Pirbhai is thirteen when he steps into a dhow on the vague promise of work. The voyage is long. He has no money, no voice, no power -- and will make impossible choices in the name of survival.

Sonal is fierce and loving, always willing to fight for what she believes in. When a young man called Pirbha...

'Your job is to bind the books, not read them.'

When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home. As Peggy moves between her narrowboat full of memories and the demands of the Press, her dreams of studying feel ever more remote. She must know her place, fold her pages and never stop to savour the precious words in front of her.

From volunteer nurses to refugees fleeing the ho...

t is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.

Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley's friendship with Willie grow...

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life on a tiny Greek island: Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy.

De bundel heeft geen motto. Hoewel een aantal verzen ook als één geheel kunnen worden gelezen zijn het merendeels korte gedichtjes.

Thank you for providing the clarification. "The Man" is indeed a novel written by Bram Stoker and published in 1905. Here's a summary of the novel:

"The Man" is an Edwardian novel by Bram Stoker that explores themes of identity, duality, and morality. The story follows Stephen, a young man who inherits an estate in England. Stephen is a good-natured and honorable individual, but he begins to experience strange and unsettling changes in his behavior. He starts to exhibit a darker side of his p...

Mexican history and Mesoamerican mythology meet in this thrilling historical fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, romance, and adventure.

The empire of Moctezuma II has long fallen, a city raised on the bones of Tenochtitlan. None dare whisper the names of their gods- or speak of the magic that once graced the land, of the witches who hunted as jaguars, the warriors who soared as eagles.

Until a new name emerges- a curse on the lips of the Spanish, a hero in the hearts of the people. A ma...