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Victor Gregg | Rick Stroud King's Cross kid
"Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship...
Engels | 256 pagina's (5,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rick Stroud | Victor Gregg Rifleman
"Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting...
Engels | 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michelle Lovric The book of human skin
Een rijke Venetiaanse, wier leven een hel wordt door haar wrede broer, belandt eind 18e eeuw in een afgelegen klooster in Peru onder het regime van een fanatieke non.
Fictie
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Fairy dust
"Twink has completely settled in to the wonderful, great, oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy. She has two great friends - Bimi and Sooze. Bimi is quiet, thoughtful and supportive, and Sooze is full of energy, a little thoughtless and great fun! It is Sooze who persuades Twink to take some Fairy Dust to perform a prank on some of the other students, but it all goes horribly wrong ...Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers...
Engels | 128 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Fledge star
"Twink can't wait to start her second year in Bluebell Branch at Glitterwings Academy. And even more excitingly she finds out that she is to be substitute for the Glitterwings Fledge team - a fairy flying sport that is high speed and takes skill and daring to play well. But when Twink is unexpectedly called upon to play she fluffs her chance. Twink is so disappointed. How can she get back on the team? And why is Mariella being so nice to her when the rest of the team is being rather horrible to her?...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Flying high
"Glitterwings Academy is the fairy school to go to, and Twink is so excited to be starting her first term. But she is also a little nervous. Will she make friends? Will she be able to find her way round the dizzying, huge oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy? And will she be able to pass the all-important test for new students - that of learning to fly?Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers of the series can be assured...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Friends forever
"Twink can't wait to get back for her Autumn Term at Glitterwings Academy. She loves the lessons - especially the lessons where they learn how to look after other creatures. One day Twink hears a cry for help and discovers that it is a baby wasp. She wants to help it, but is told that wasps and fairies have been enemies for centuries and that she must leave it to its fate. What will Twink do?Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods....
Engels | 128 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Titania Woods Midnight feast
"Twink can't wait to start her second term, the Summer term, at the fairy school, Glitterwings Academy. She loves the wonderful, huge oak tree that is Glitterwings Academy, and all the exciting new lessons. Best of all, she has made some new friends, Sooze and Bimi. But friendships can sometimes run into difficulty, as Twink is about to find out.Glitterwings Academy is a lovingly created series by acclaimed author Lee Weatherly, writing as Titania Woods. Readers of the series can be assured of accomplished...
Engels | 128 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Anna Reid Leningrad
"On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different.Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal...
Engels | 512 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Lucy Wood Diving belles
"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rodney Bolt Lorenzo da Ponte
"By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cosí fan tutte and Don Giovanni. After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining...
Engels | 448 pagina's (4,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston Mysterious wisdom
"A devotee of the great visionary William Blake, Samuel Palmer became the lynchpin of the first British art movement. Leading a band of fellow artists - the brotherhood of Ancients - out of London to the village of Shoreham in Kent, he set out to create a new rural ideal. His paintings of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, of mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, capture a world in which landscape and politics, religion and culture all meet. They reflect the concerns of the nineteenth...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Nicci French Thursday's Child
A Frieda Klein Novel (4)
Thursday's Child by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. Two crimes, generations apart ... Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town, trained as a psychologist and never went back. Now an old classmate has shown up. She wants help with her daughter, who claims to have been attacked...
Engels | ePub3, 3,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014
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Frank Dikotter Mao's great famine
"Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors...
Engels | 448 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Juliet Nicolson Abdication
"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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John Carlin White angels
"The world over, no sportsman - and maybe no other individual - provokes more fascination, argument and interest than the Londoner with the film-star looks, David Beckham. No sports team exudes more glamour, has won more competitions or possesses a more dazzling collection of superstars than Real Madrid. The fusion of the two has gripped the attention of millions and changed the face of the world's favourite sport, making a clear divide between the Old Football and the New. White Angels is the insider's...
Engels | 384 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Paul Collins The trouble with Tom
"The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars,...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Anna Beer Milton
"For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or a saintly blind man. But, as Anna Beer shows, his personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional one. By close and groundbreaking analysis of Milton's careful editing of his own life, his wider family's affairs, the records of his government work, and the history of...
Engels | 480 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots
"When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Robert Cabot The Joshua tree
"Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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