A decade before the story opens two men, Patron and Guide, lead an influential
religious movement. However, when they discover a radical faction plans
to seize a nuclear-power plant, they decide to dissolve the cult in an
act known as the Somersault.
Ten years later, Patron restarts the movement with a small but faithful
core, however his messianic ambitions collide with his followers more violent
expectations. Grand in its themes and beautifully told, Somersault illuminates
the spiritual searching of modern man that makes religious cults so compelling.
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Alessandro
Boffa
You're an animal, Viskovitz!
Prijs Euro 15,95
A snail with two sexes, a parrot who speaks of love, a dormouse who has
erotic dreams, a police dog who's a buddhist, a microbe with an inferiority
complex, a chameleon hoping to find himself, a lion in love with a gazelle,
a scorpion with the fastest sting in the west...
You're an animal, Viskovitz! is a whirlwind of ironic fables:
a series of hilarous metamorphoses like nothing else you've read before
Original title: Sei una bestia, Viskovitz!
Translator: John Casey with Maria Sanminiatelli
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Paul
Theroux
The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro
And other stories
Prijs Euro 13,95
A young American walk, into Sicily's Palazzo d'Oro during the sixties.
Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he
accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling
aristocrat. Their affair - formal and restrained by day torrid and passionate
by night - leads him to a place where nothing, not even his lover, is what
it seems.
This is novel and three other tales explore the lie underbelly of sexual
desire and together make tip one of Paul Theroux's most compelling works
yet
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Sarah
Emily Miano
Encyclopædia of snow
Prijs Euro 12,95
A lost notebook is discovered containing an array of entries about snow
- scientific description, historical accounts and fantastical incidents
which unfold to reveal a series of love stories. It becomes clear by the
end of the book that the unnamed editor's work is intended as a love letter.
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Stella
Rimington
At Risk
The stunning debut novel from the former head of MI5
Prijs Euro 19,95
'Our concern - and we've communicated this over the weekend to all stations
- is that the opposition may be about to deploy an invisible.'
An invisible is CIA speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: the
terrorist who, because he or she is an ethnic native of the target country,
can cross its borders unchecked, move around that country unquestioned
and infiltrate its institutions with ease.
An invisible on mainland Britain was the worst possible news.
For Liz Carlyle, an M15 Intelligence officer, this report from M16 marks
the start of an operation which will test her to the limit and put her
own life in jeopardy. As she sifts the incoming evidence and gets reports
from agents she realizes there is an imminent terrorist threat.
But who or what is the target? And who and where is the invisible? Time
is of the essence in this desperate search and it becomes clear that it
is Liz's intuitive skills, her ability to get inside her enemy's head,
which offer the only hope of averting disaster.
In this terrifying and tautly drawn debut thriller Stella Rimington
takes us to the heart of the Intelligence world.
It is a place she is uniquely qualified to describe.
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Michel
Faber
Courage Consort
Prijs Euro 15,95
The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known acappella vocal ensemble
in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their
latest commission, the complicated Partitum Mutante. But can the piece
be performed?
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Xinran
Sky Burial
An epic story of Tibet
Prijs Euro 19,95
In the early 1960s a rumour circulated through China that one of its soldiers
in Tibet had been brutally fed to the vultures. Xinran was a little girl:
the tale frightenend and fascinated her. She knew nothing about the Tibetan
custom of 'Sky Burial' - indeed few Chinese at the time knew or understood
such rituals. But thirty years later, Xinran met a Chinese woman who could
tell her the astonishing story that lay behind the legend. Her name was
Shu Wen and she had spent most of her adult life lost on the Tibetan plateau...
In 1958, Wen was twenty-six. She and her husband Kejun were young medical
students, fired with the hope and enthusiasm of the early Communist years.
It was this idealism that led Kejun to join the army as a doctor. But only
a few months after her marraige, Wen heard that her husband had been killed
in action in Tibet.
Refusing to believe the news, she too joined up as a doctor and set
out for Tibet in search of him. She entered a landscape that nothing had
prepared her for - the silence, the altitude, the emptiness was terrifying.
But Wen's determination to find Kejun drove her on. It would drive her
when she became seperated from her regiment, and when she was lost in the
mountains of north Tibet.
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James
Siegel
Derailed
Strangers on a train - Lovers in the making - The nightmare begins
Prijs Euro 12,95
The day Charles Schine misses his regular New York train is the day that
changes his life. Sitting opposite him on the next train is Lucinda Harris:
charming, beautiful and a seductively good listener. And despite himself,
despite being happily married, Charles is instantly attracted.
Charles knows the risks he is taking, but not in his worst nightmares
could he have foreseen what is to follow. Suddenly his temptation turns
horrifically sour, and his illicit liaison becomes caught up in something
bigger, more dangerous, more brutally violent. And unless he can find a
way to fight back, his entire life will be spectacularly derailed for good
...
Review: 'Impossible to put down'
Lee Child
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Rose
Tremain
The Colour
Prijs Euro 13,95
Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search
of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch
threatens to destroy them almost before they begin.
When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obsession
with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his
farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern
Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams
of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies.
By turns both moving and terrifying, The Colour is about a quest
for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and explore
the sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of happiness.
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You
can find more titles below or you can look through bookshelves:
Biotechnology has become the buzzword in the campaign of Senator Ashley
Butler, a self-appointed guardian of "traditional American values."
The conservative politician has come down staunchly against stem cell
research. But when he develops Parkinson's disease, the senator makes an
unwilling pact with the very doctor whose groundbreaking - yet untested
- technology he is trying to destory...
In a novel as timely as it is terrifying, Robin Cook tackles one of
the most controversial issues facing the medical community - and humanity
- today.
The press: 'Robin Cook knows how to make the pages fly.'
- Kirkus Reviews
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Tom
Sharpe
Wilt in Nowhere
Prijs Euro 19,95
Henry Wilt is back! In a major publishing event, one of Britain's finest
living writers returns with his greatest creation.
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Helen
Fielding
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Prijs Euro 14,95
Olivia Joules is a fearless, dazzling, independent beauty - journalist-turned-master-spy
and a new heroine for the 21st century - from the bestselling author of
Bridget
Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason.
From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters
of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against
the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor-sharp wits and a very
special underwired bra.
How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo,
with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes
across the globe and a rather dubious French accent? But is it possible
that Ferramo is actually a major terrorist, bent on the Western World's
destruction? Or is it all just a product of Olivia Joules's overactive
imagination?
Join Olivia in her heart-stopping and hilarious quest to save the world
in this witty, contemporary and utterly unputdownable thriller.
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James
Putnam
The British Museum Ancient Egypt Pop-up Book
Prijs Euro 32,95
Take a three-dimensional tour of ancient Egypt in this highly visual pop-up
book. Artful scale replicas of buildings, artefacts, and monuments tell
the story of this fascinating civilization. Full-colour photographs and
lively text bring ancient Egypt to life.
* Open the pages to reveal spectacular pop-up sculptures of an Egyptian
boat, King Ramesses II in his chariot, Queen Hatshepsut's temple, an Egyptian
villa, the Great Pyramid complex at Giza and Tutankhamun's death mask,
mummy, and tomb.
* Additional pop-ups and novelty items include a shaduf, a map of ancient
Egypt, a booklet telling the story of the pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife
Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian game of Snake, a booklet detailing many
Egyptian gods and goddesses, and the Rhind papyrus.
* Includes 25 full-colour photographs of artefacts from ancient Egypt,
such as wall paintings featuring Egyptian life, funerary models, pottery,
the temples of Abu Simbel, giant structures such as obelisks and pyramids,
and fabulous jewellery.
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Jane
Smiley
Good Faith
Prijs Euro 15,95
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not
very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It
Is 1982 and temptation is everywhere. And, as Marcus Burns (Joe's new friend
from New York) says, the old rules are ready to be broken. Marcus should
know: he's just quit his job at the IRS.
But are his ideas about how to get rich really rich - too big and risky
for Joe? And what about the real-estate development at Salt Key Farm: why
is the local Savings and Loan so eager to lend Marcus and Joe the money
for its asking price? And there's Felicity - the daughter of Joe's business
partner - who has finally confessed how fond she is of Joe. But is this
winning, free-spirited (already married) woman really the one he's been
waiting for?
Good Faith is an extraordinary story about ordinary people caught
up in an exotic 1980s version of the American Dream. By turns poignant,
insightful and outrageous, it is Jane Smiley at her funniest and most slyly
astute.
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Tom
Clancy
Red Rabbit
Prijs Euro 13,95
When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world
of political intrigue and conspiracy. Stationed in England, he quickly
finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story
to tell: senior Russian officials are plotting to assassinate Pope John
Paul II.
The CIA novice must forget his inexperience and rely on all his wits
to firstly discover the details of the plot - and then prevent its execution.
For it is not just the Pope's life that is at stake, but also the stability
of the Western world ...
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Henning
Mankell
The White Lioness
Prijs Euro 12,95
In peaceful southern Sweden, Louise Åkerblom, an estate agent, pillar
of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation
and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.
As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing persons case, he
has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has
no conception of how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In
South Africa, meanwhile, Nelson Mandela has wade his long walk to
freedom. Wallander finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade
members of the South African secret service and a former KGB agent, all
of them set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. Faced with a world in
which terrorism knows no frontiers, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime
that means to dam the tide of history.
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Gabriel
García Márquez
One Hunderd Years of Solitude
Prijs Euro 15,95
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the magical story of the Buendía
family, who love, lie, fight and rule for a century in Macondo, their settlement
in the South American jungle.
Part exotic paradise, part nightmare, Macondo is a fantastic world of
miracles and mirages where nothing is as it seems. Its secrets lie hidden
for years in an encoded book, and only Aureliano Buendía, the last
in the dynasty, can unlock its mysteries and discover the fate of this
strange land ...
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Peter
Carey
My life as a fake
Prijs Euro 13,95
In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher
Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity.
But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism
takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy,
sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein
was, haunted and pursued by his own creation.
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Clive
Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
White death
A Kurt Austin Adventure
Prijs Euro 12,95
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser
has forced Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and
colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men.
But when the two of them investigate further, they discover that something
far more sinister is at work. A shadowy multi-national corporation is attempting
to wrest control of the very seas themselves, no matter what havoc results,
and killing anyone who attempts to stop them. When Austin’s boat blows
up and he only barely survives, it seems certain he is the next in line
to die, but he cannot stop now. For the environmental disaster has already
begun, and only he and NUMA stand in the way….
Filled with all the heart-stopping adventure and endless imagination
that are Cussler’s hallmarks, White Death is an exceptional thriller
from a write at the height of his powers.
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Richard
Powers
The Time of our Singing
Prijs Euro 13,95
The press: 'There is no contemporary American writer quite like Richard Powers...
It is rare to find a novel as intellectually and emotionally engaging as
this'
- Guardian
'A serious work, never less than considered and thought-provoking'
- Daily Telegraph
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Nicci
French
Land of the Living
Prijs Euro 13,95
Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded, bound at her hands and
feet. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. A man she never
sees feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now,
but says he will kill her - like the others.
But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody-mindedness on her side. She
counts the seconds she is alone, tells herself stories, remembers her life,
talks to her captor and plots her survival. Above all, she dreams of returning
to normal, careless, everyday life - the land of the living.
Among her memories are a horribly stressful career and a disintegrating
relationship with her boyfriend, Terry. Could there be a connection between
her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in
a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too
much to bear...?
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Jerome
Preisler & Tom Clancy
Cutting Edge
Power Plays
Prijs Euro 14,50
Africa becomes the battle ground in 21st-century war. As fiberoptic
cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control
it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African
fiberoptic ring is his most ambitious—and expensive—endeavor to date. His
nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Trading in black market
commodities with terrorists and rogue states, the cable offers him unlimited
access to a most valuable product: information.
To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world.
He hits Gordian where it hurts—and kidnaps his daughter. Now, Gordian must
trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to
turn the tables against Devane…once and for all.
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Screenplay
by Anthony Minghella
The talented Mr. Ripley
Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel
Prijs van Euro 17.50 voor Euro 7.00
Based or Patricia Highsmith's international best-seller, Anthony Minghella's
screenplay is published to coincide with the major Miramax and Paramount
Motion Picture release starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and
Cate Blanchett
To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape
of sur-drerched Italy in the late 1950's; that is 'la dolce vita' Tom Ripley
craves and Dickie Greenleaf leads. Down and out in a dingy New York basement,
Ripley is commissioned by Dickie's father, a wealthy industrialist, to
journey to Italy and persuade the errant playboy to return home to America.
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Scott
Phillips
The Ice Harvest
Prijs Euro 12,68
It is Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas and snowing steadily. The streets
are deserted, traffic is light and most people have returned homw for the
start of the festivities, but family festivities are the last thing on
Charlie Arglist's mind, and home is the last place he needs to be. For
Charlie has to get out of town. For good, in nine-and-a-half hours, to
be precise. But first there are just a few things he has to do.
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Emer
Martin
Breakfast in Babylon
Prijs van Euro 17,95 voor Euro 7,10
Isolt is down but not out in Paris. She's a sharp-tongued drifter with
a fierce instinct for survival who falls into a darkly comic romance with
Christopher, "the Hoodoo Man."
From Paris to Amsterdam, London to New York, the two run scams, tell
tales, and squat among a riotous band of vagabonds and punk junkies from
around the globe. Begging is their way of life, until Isolt determines
a desperate escape.
Written with razor-sharp humor and raw storytelling verve, Breakfast
in Babylon explores the stark world of a rootless generation - a world
of beggars who choose and beggars who have no choice.
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Edmund
J. Pankau
Hide your a$$et$ and disappear
A step-by-step Guide to Vanishing without a Trace
Prijs Euro 20,15
Thinking of disappearing without a trace?
Want to find someone who has?
Consider these questions ...
• Which is the better place to go, New Zealand or Panama?
• How much cash can you legally take out of the country?
• What are the hot spots the Customs Department targets as suspicious
entry points?
• What is FinCEN and how can it ruin your plans?
• Where is it better to keep money-the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, or
Switzerland?
• Should you seek out the expatriates in your new country or lie low?
• What should you do if someone recognizes you in your new home?
• What happens if you get sick abroad?
Edmund J. Pankau, rated one of the nation's top ten private investigators,
is a world-renowned professional speaker and author of numerous articles
and several award-winning books on privacy and investigation. His experience
and cases have been featured in such publications as Time, BusinessWeek,
People,
USA
Today, and the New York Times. He has appeared on many radio
and television shows and as an expert on privacy issues on America's
Most Wanted.
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Shakespeare
on love + sex
Prijs Euro 10,50
Thumb through the witty words of our greatest playwright as he eloquently
sums up everything you've ever though about love and sex.
This pocket-sized collection of Shakesprearean snippets sparkles with
the timeless wisdom - and humour - of England's most famous son. Plus fascinating
facts about Shakespeare and his time.
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Roddy
Doyle
Rory and Ita
Prijs Euro 15,95
Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely
in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember every
detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people, the politics, idyllic times
in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer.
By the time they put down a deposit of two hundred pounds for a house
in Kilbarrack, Rory was working as a compositor at the Irish Independent
By the time the first of their four children was born he'd become a teacher
at the School of Printing in Dublin. Kilbarrack began to change, and Ireland
too. Through their eyes we see the intensely Catholic society of their
youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland of today.
Both are marvellous talkers, so combined with Roddy Doyle's legendary
skill in illuminating ordinary experience, Rory & Ita makes
for a book of tremendous warmth and humanity.
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Laar
Saarye Christensen
The Half Brother
Prijs Euro 14,95
Barnum and Fred are half-brothers, growing up in sixties Oslo.
Barnum seems to have stopped growing, while his older half- brother,
conceived after the rape of their mother and frustrated by learning difficulties,
is sent away to a special school. Barnum's father is no better than a con
man, giving the appearance of a travelling salesman; while the three women
in the family (mother, grandmother and great-grandmother - the 'Old One')
are all unwed mothers.
Then the Old One is killed by a hit and run driver - and Fred becomes
mute as a result. The two half-brothers embark on their separate courses,
Fred becoming a boxer and Barnum a scriptwriter, hoping to create a new
genre in film, 'the northern' (as opposed to 'western').
This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family
in the 1960s, set apart by extraordinary family members, and of two half-brothers
leading very different and separate lives, until they are brought together
again at their mother's deathbed...
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Matthew
Pearl
The Dante Club
Prijs Euro 13,95
Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's
vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses
of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields
- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy.
The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity,
believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions will prove
as corrupting as the immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members of
the Dante Club fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their
plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge.
Only this small group of scholars realises that the gruesome killings are
modelled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno.
With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future
at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence
and find a way to stop the killer.
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Steve
Perry and Larry Segniff
Changing of the Guard
Tom Clancy's Net Force 8
Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (creators)
Prijs Euro 13,95
Though the head of a major multinational corporation - and a key player
in world affairs - Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about.
But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into
the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as
a former Russian spy.
Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky
for the United States that Net Force is on the job - and is about to prove
that no man is above the law ...
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Karin
Fossum
Don't Look Back
An inspector Sejer mystery
Prijs Euro 12,95
At the foot of the Kollen mountain lies a small village where the children
play unafraid in the streets. But the tranquillity is about to be irrecoverably
shattered by a most sinister crime when a young woman's naked body is found
lying by the lake.
Inspector Sejer - smart, tough, and enigmatic - is called in to investigate.
Only he can uncover the dark secrets of this quiet community, hidden by
deep family ties ...
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Nicci
Gerrard
Things we knew were true
Prijs Euro 13,95
Edie loves Ricky but her parents don't approve. At sixteen she thinks she's
old enough to make her own choices, be her own person. Old enough to know
what she wants from life. But when tragedy turns Edie's world upside down
she's thrown out of the comforting embrace of childhood once and for all.
Twenty years later, with a young family of her own, Edie is called back
home. And now she's full of questions:
What happened to the people who still haunt her dreams?
How long can family secrets remain hidden?
And what became of the things that, at sixteen, Edie knew were true?
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Åsne
Seierstad
The Bookseller of Kabul
Prijs Euro 15,95
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply
books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned,
and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street.
In spring 2002 award-winning Journalist Åsne Seierstad spent four
months living with the bookseller and his family. As Seierstad steps back
from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals
and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment.
The result is a unique portrait of a faintly and a country.
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Lesley
Pearse
Remember me
Prijs Euro 13,95
Mary Broad is just eighteen when, in desperate poverty, she steals a silk
hat and is sentenced to death.
Given a last-minute reprieve, she sets sail with a hundred other convicts
for Australia, a new colony on the other side of the world. For a Cornish
girl who has never been further than Plymouth, this is almost as horrifying
a fate as death.
Courage and determination are Mary's only assets. Faced with the horrific
conditions on board and the unknown terrors of her strange new home, she
makes a vow: she will survive, whatever it takes...
Based on a true story, Remember me is one of the most gripping
and moving tales of human endeavour you will ever read
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Patricia
Cornwell
Portrait of a killer
Jack the Ripper - case closed
Prijs Euro 13,95
Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel.
The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear for months in
the East End, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand
for a serial killer
Jack the Ripper
For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained one
of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. Until now. Using her formidable
range of forensic and technical skills, Patricia Cornwell has applied the
rigorous discipline of twenty-first-century police investigation to the
extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator
of the Whitechapel murders was the world famous artist, Walter Rickert.
With her knowledge of criminal investigation and her consummate skills
as a bestselling writer, Patricia Cornwell has produced a book which is
as compelling as it is authentic - the definitive account of one of the
world's most famous murder mysteries.
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J.M.
Coetzee
Boyhood
Scenes from provincial life
Prijs Euro 13,95
The press: 'This life is described with such skill, such exactitude and such relentlessness
that I found myself gasping for air ... Coetzee has achieved something
universal in his work ... a fine book, probably the best description of
a childhood I have ever read'
- The Times
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Donna
Tartt
The little friend
Pocket edition
Prijs Euro 13,95
Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy
as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved
to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of
them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her
brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family
may never recover.
So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, she
sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish
him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dark an dangerous
journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
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Sandra
Cisneros
Caramelo
Prijs Euro 13,75
Each year the three Reyes' families drive from Chicago via Route 66 to
Mexico City. From the back seat of her father's red station wagon, Lala
can watch their boisterous caravan progress through the States and cross
the border to Mexico. Awaiting Lala there is a further intriguing journey
through her family's legends, secrets and history, and the puzzle as to
why her Awful Grandmother's special treasure - her handmade caramelo shawl
- was left unfinished.
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Henning
Mankell
Firewall
The new Kurt Wallander novel
Prijs Euro 12,95
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably
falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears
without trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness
and when the engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes
a grisly discovery...
Inspector Wallander is sure that these events must be linked somehow.
As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy
group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace.
The terrorists always seem to be one step ahead of the police's next move
and only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them.
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Colin
Thubron
To the last city
Prijs Euro 13,95
To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared
travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives
- find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful
regions on earth. It is a journey which may temper or destroy them. They
confront not only their relationships with one another, but also the enigmas
of the country's past, the dangers of its present, and the limitations
of their own minds and bodies. The 'lost city' of their destination is
Vilcabamba, last refuge of the Inca against the Spaniards, subsumed by
jungle for four hundred years.
In this brilliant exploration of the psychological challenges of travelling,
set within the exotic jungle of South America, Colin Thubron for the first
time joins his highly acclaimed talents as a travel writer with his gifts
as a novelist.
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Pierre
DBC
Vernon God Little
Prijs Euro 14,95
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GO in 2003, the riotous
adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small-town Texas and beachfront
Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts
of the 21 st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity
(all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world
is never less than astonishing.
The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas,
Vernon
God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely
of heroes.
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J.M.
Coetzee
Youth
Prijs Euro 12,95
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been
plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading
poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real
world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and
transform it into art.
Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance.
Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from
which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration,
he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually
tested and continually found wanting.
Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait
of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young
man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce
clarity.
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John
Updike
Seek my face
Prijs Euro 13,95
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz
tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York.
Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American
art and her relationships with the artists who defined thir times.
As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope - interviewer and interviewee
- try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and
time that lies between them. And subtly, as each comes to know the other,
their relationship changes...
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A.S.
Byatt
A whistling woman
Prijs Euro 14,95
This intoxicating novel stands on its own, while forming a triumphant conclusion
to A. S. Byatt's great quartet depicting the clashing forces in English
life from the early 1950s to 1970. While Frederica falls almost by accident
into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county
of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.
A Whistling Woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh -
gloriously sensual, sexy and scary, bursting with ideas, and wonderful
humanity.
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Anita
Shreve
All he ever wanted
Prijs Euro 12,95
It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and
Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning
building with their lives. For Nicholas, it is also a chance meeting that
lights up a lifelong passion, and sets in motion a pursuit of Etna that
is to end in their marriage.
But their life is not everything they could have imagined Many years
later, Nicholas recounts their courtship and their time together. And as
the threads of the story begin to unravel, hat is revealed is a patchwork
of promises, truths, secrets and lies, and a man, madly in love, for whom
his wife is all he ever wanted ...
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Lauro
Martines
April Blood
Prijs Euro 17,95
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family
dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but
Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur, escaped. A
blood-bath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged
that the Pope, the King of Naples and the Duke of Urbino were implicated
in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist
Florence.
If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future
of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been
utterly transformed.
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Alexandra
Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Prijs Euro 12,95
This memoir recounts Alexandra Fuller's life in what was then Rhodesia,
where her parents moved in 1971 when she was just two. While her father
was away fighting for Ian Smith's government, her mother worked the family
farm. This story deals with their time there during the country's civil
war.
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Iain
Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Prijs Euro 12,95
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation
- the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death
in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth - The Dream
of Scipio follows the fortunes of three men, Manlius Hippomanes, a
Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation,
Olivier de Noyen, a poet, and Julien Barneuve, an intellectual who joins
the Vichy government.
The story of each man is woven through the narrative, linked by the
classical text that gives the book its title, and by each man's love for
an extraordinary woman. Dense, dark, erudite and yet, like An Instance
of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms
Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelists.
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Brian
Froud and Alan Lee (ill)
Faeries
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Edited and designed by David Larkin
Prijs van Euro 30,75 voor Euro 28,80
Featuring new art and introduction by the artists
'This enchanting book explores the realm of elves, pixies, leprechauns,
dryads and other mythical creatures. Nearly 200 extraordinary drawings
and full colour paintings combine to produce a book which has stood the
test of time since it was first published.'
- Kindred Spirit
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Andrew
Klavan
Man and Wife
Prijs Euro 13,95
Psychiatrist Cal Bradley runs a highly respected clinic in New England
and shares a contented life with his wife and three children. He is convinced
that a patient of his is not guilty of the murder with which he's been
charged, but revealing the identity of the real killer will destroy Cal.
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Paulo
Coelho
The Alchemist
Prijs van Euro 17,50 voor Euro 14,95
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers
forever. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is such a book. With over
19 million copies sold worldwide, The Alchemist has already achieved
the status of a modern classic.
When one really wants something, the whole Universe conspires to enable
him to realize his dreams. This happens when we learn to listen to the
voice of our heart and understand the language that is higher than the
words, which shows us what eyes cannot see. The Alchemist follows
the adventures of Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd boy, who one day
leaves his herd in order to follow his dreams. With this enriching voyage
through the desert, Paulo Coelho recreates the symbolic language describing
life, the man and his dreams.
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Doris
Lessing
The Sweetest Dream
Prijs Euro 13,95
The Sixties, Hampstead. In a large, slightly run-down Victorian house,
Frances Lennox presides over a table set for sixteen. A dozen or so youths
are expecting to be fed, among them her two teenage sons and a whole host
of runaways, drop-ins and hangers-on. Frances is fantasising that her no-good
ex-husband, Johnny, celebrity of the left and absentee father, is finally
about to relieve her of some of her burden and contribute to his sons'
upbringing. It's a sweet dream, but it's a long way from the truth, and
terrible things are done in the name of dreams, as Frances is about to
discover...
The Sweetest Dream is an absorbing, at times unsettling, journey
through three decades of the lives of three very remarkable women.
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Douglas
Coupland
All families are psychotic
Prijs Euro 12,95
In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her
medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children.
Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any
moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a
bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' - here in Orlando to be the star
of Friday's shuttle mission. WIth Janet's ex-husband and his trophy wife
also in town, Janet spends a moment contemplating her family, and where
it all went wrong. Or did it?
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John
Bayley
Widower's House
The last in the Iris Trilogy
Prijs Euro 15,95
Completing his remarkable trilogy of books that began with Iris and Iris
and the Friends, John Bayley looks back on the happiness of the years,
in sickness and health, which he and Iris Murdoch spent together ... Now
he has to cope not only with Iris' absence but what happens when a widower
is left alone in his house, exposed to the kindness of strangers brandishing
hoovers and bearing odd pies ...
Widower's House gives a searching analysis of the condition of
bereavement, and the void that has to be faced when the loved one is no
longer there to be looked after. As time goes by he finds himself beset
with new and alarmingly unfamiliar problems: he suffers equally from the
helplessness of being alone and the kindly harassment of well-wishers;
discovering too that a widower's life can contain many moments of bizarre
comedy.
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Isabel
Allende
Portrait in Sepia
Prijs Euro 12,95
After the mother dies in childbirth, Aurora del Valle is raised by her
grandmother in San Francisco, but despite growing in this rich and privileged
environment, Aurora is unhappy. Haunted by terrible nightmares and the
inexplicable absence of many of her childhood memories, and finding herself
alone at the end of a love affair, she decides to travel toChile to discover
what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating
effect on her young life.
Bringing together characters from The House of the Spirits and
Daughter
of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia confirms Isabel Allende as one
of the finest and most entertaining novelists writing today.
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Alice
Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Prijs Euro 13,95
In this collection of short stories whole lives come into focus through
single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.
The past, as Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is
remembered, but also what is not. If memories have not been savoured, recalled
in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been- until a moment
when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form, sometimes pleasurably but often
painfully.
Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages when they
were naïve and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding
little ways. Here is underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in Munro's
characters for a fork in the road not taken, a memory supressed in an act
of prudent emotional housekeeping. But there is also hope, and second chances-here
are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have
moved on and can risk conjuring up hidden memories, daring to go beyond
what is actually remembered.
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Ian
McEwan
Atonement
Prijs Euro 12,95
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis
sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain
in the garden of their country hosue. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her
childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for
ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even
imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's
imagination.
Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which
she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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Anita
Shreve
Sea Glass
Prijs Euro 13,95
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling
into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While
Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on
the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both
love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock
market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is
at a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken
by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage
and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind.
Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers,
Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss
and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the
human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.
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W.G.
Sebald
Austerlitz
Prijs van Euro 15,95 voor Euro 13,95
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport
and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from
the boy all knowledge of his identity and lie grows up ignorant of his
past.
Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past
returning to haunt bun and he is forced to explore what happened to him
fifty years before ...
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Phillip
Margolin
The Associate
Prijs Euro 13,95
Daniel Ames is living the American dream. Born into poverty and on the
streets by the age of fifteen, he has overcome every obstacle to become
an associate at Portland's most prestigious law firm.
Then Geller Pharmaceuticals - the firm's biggest client - issued for
manufacturing a drug that allegedly a unspeakable birth defects. Daniel
is certain the claim has no merit - until a memo written by a Geller scientist
implicates the company in horrific lie. As Daniel investigates, he finds
accused of professional incompetence and is fired. Twelve hours later
the man who fired him is murdered Daniel is arrested.
Scrambling to clear his name, he unearths a trail of deceit that leads
back to a series of unsolved kidnappings. Daniel suddenly finds himself
the target of a vicious killer, who will stop at nothing to prevent the
truth from being revealed...
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Alice
Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Prijs Euro 12,95
'My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when
I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood.
My mother liked his border flowers, and my father once talked to him about
fertalizer.'
This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like
her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellors
to help newcomers to adjust, and frineds to room with. Everything she wants
appears as soon as she thinks of it- except the thing she wants most: to
be back with the people she loved on earth. From heaven, Susie watches.
She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member
tries to come to terms with the terrible loss.
Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all
the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite
finished with Susie yet. The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing
novel about life and death., forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting.
It is, above all, a novel which finds light in the darkest of places, and
shows how even when that light seems to be utterly extinquished, it is
still there, waiting to be rekindled.
Robin
Cook
Tom
Sharpe
Helen
Fielding
James
Putnam
Jane
Smiley
Tom
Clancy
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Henning
Mankell
Gabriel
García Márquez
Peter
Carey
Clive
Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
Richard
Powers
Nicci
French
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Jerome
Preisler & Tom Clancy
Screenplay
by Anthony Minghella
Scott
Phillips
Emer
Martin
Edmund
J. Pankau
Shakespeare
on love + sex
Roddy
Doyle
Laar
Saarye Christensen
Matthew
Pearl
Steve
Perry and Larry Segniff
Karin
Fossum
Nicci
Gerrard
Åsne
Seierstad
Lesley
Pearse
Patricia
Cornwell
J.M.
Coetzee
Donna
Tartt
Sandra
Cisneros
Henning
Mankell
Colin
Thubron
Pierre
DBC
J.M.
Coetzee
John
Updike
A.S.
Byatt
Anita
Shreve
Lauro
Martines
Alexandra
Fuller
Iain
Pears
Brian
Froud and Alan Lee (ill)
Andrew
Klavan
Paulo
Coelho
Doris
Lessing
Douglas
Coupland
John
Bayley
Isabel
Allende
Alice
Munro
Ian
McEwan
Anita
Shreve
W.G.
Sebald
Phillip
Margolin
Alice
Sebold
Kenzaburo
Oe
Alessandro
Boffa
Paul
Theroux
Sarah
Emily Miano
Stella
Rimington
Michel
Faber
Xinran
James
Siegel
Rose
Tremain