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Jane Davis At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock

London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. Like most working-class daughters, Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger. Star of the silver screen, Ursula Delancy, has just been abandoned by the man she left her husband for. Already hounded by the press, it won’t be long before she’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Patrice...

Engels | 14 uur 34 minuten (635 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Kate Furnivall The betrayal

Een jonge Franse vrouw riskeert haar leven uit schuldgevoel voor de moord op haar vader die niet de man blijkt te zijn die zij dacht. Dan ontdekt ze dat haar tweelingzus ook geheimen heeft.

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Engels | 436 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS company, London | 2017

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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide

At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...

Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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Isabelle Schuler Lady Macbethad

In de elfde eeuw in Schotland spelend verhaal over het avontuurlijke leven van Gruoch, de vrouw die Shakespeare inspireerde voor Lady Macbeth, voordat ze de vrouw van Macbeth werd.

Fictie

Engels | 362 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2024

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Emma Carroll Sky chasers

from a prize-winning idea by Neal Jackson

Magpie woont op straat. Op een dag vraagt een rijke dame of Magpie voor haar een oude doos uit een landhuis van de familie Montgolfier wil stelen. Deze familie is bezig met een groot experiment. Door omstandigheden wordt Magpie de nieuwe hulp in het landhuis. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 279 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2018

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Michael Ridpath Shadows of war

Een Engelse luitenant ontdekt in 1938 een plan van de nazi's om de afgetreden Engelse koning Edward VIII weer aan de macht te krijgen als pro Duitse regeringsleider om zo een bruggenhoofd voor een Duitse invasie te creëren.

Fictie

Engels | 428 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2015

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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time

Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...

Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill

She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...

Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill Lark Returning

Can Lark take the path of the woman who went before her and learn to follow her heart? Lark is a much-loved forces sweetheart spreading comfort as she sings in the music halls while Scotland’s sons fight in the Great War. But despite her fortune, Lark yearns for a life away from the crowds. She sets out to make a fresh start in the Border country seeking the contentment that has eluded her. Decades earlier, Lark’s great-grandmother, Jane, found herself in the same hills, in unhappy circumstances....

Engels | 12 uur 55 minuten (565 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill Wild Heritage

Caught between the past and the future, can friendship survive in changing times? Thirteen years have passed since the railway came to the Borders, bringing changes that would radically alter the lives of the people who lived there. Yet the steam train was not the only legacy from the men who built the railway – in their wake they left several fatherless children. One such child is Kitty Scott. Wild through neglect and an outcast within the community, Kitty is a loner... until she rescues newcomer Marie...

Engels | 19 uur 52 minuten (870 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth McNeill Turn of the Tide

They have survived the worst they could imagine – now they must face the future. After a catastrophic storm tears through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile, Jessie, her sister-in-law, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie, the lynchpin of the family, who...

Engels | 5 uur 32 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth McNeill The Storm

When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...

Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Wilbur Smith | Tom Harper Nemesis

Parijs, 1794. Een man kijkt toe hoe zijn moeder naar de guillotine wordt gebracht en weet dat hij er alles aan moet doen om aan hetzelfde lot te ontsnappen.

Fictie

Engels | 460 pagina's | Zaffre, London | 2023

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Stacy Gregg Nine girls

Als ze verhuist naar een klein plaatsje in Nieuw-Zeeland ontdekt Titch haar familiegeschiedenis. Ze gaat op zoek naar een oude verborgen schat en leert de Maori-verhalen die daarbij horen. vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 285 pagina's | Puffin Books, London | 2024

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Tamara McKinley Ocean child

Door een brief van een Tasmaanse paardentrainer wordt een in Engeland wonende jonge beeldhouwster in 1920 geconfronteerd met het verleden van haar ouders en oudtante.

Fictie

Engels | 393 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2013

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Neil Blackmore Radical love

Londen, 19e eeuw. Een dominee heeft radicale opvattingen over de liefde.

Fictie

Engels | 280 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2024

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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...

Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery

When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel

In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....

Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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