Zoekfilters
Resultaten (5)
morgen verzonden
Dry
THE ABSOLUTELY COMPELLING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
2024 || Paperback || Jane Harper || Little Brown UK
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY?I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that.Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty.Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his y...
morgen verzonden
*Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One
Playscript. With the conclusive and final dialogue from the play.
2023 || Paperback || J.K. Rowling e.a. || Little Brown UK
The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a play by Jack Thorne.The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his yo...
morgen verzonden
Shorto*Amsterdam
A History of the World's Most Liberal City
2014 || Ongedefinieerd || Russell Shorto || Little Brown UK
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto's mast...
morgen verzonden
The Underground Railroad
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017
2022 || Paperback || Colson Whitehead || Little Brown UK
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, ...
morgen verzonden
Casual Vacancy
2024 || Paperback || J.K. Rowling || Little Brown UK
JK Rowling The Casual VacancyBiographyJ K (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in the summer of 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent where she went to Wyedean Comprehensive. Jo left Chepstow for Exeter University, where she earned a French and Classics degree, and where her course included one year in Paris. As a postgraduate she moved to London to work at Amnesty International, doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. She started writing...