"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her...
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Auteur: Cusk, RachelSommaire:
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Auteur: Power, CarlaSommaire:
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that...
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Auteur: Eliot, GeorgeSommaire:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
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Auteur: Sherman, SusanSommaire:
In the early 1900s, a young woman escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a domestic servant and finds the world opening to her through her connection with the scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.
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Auteur: De Lint, CharlesSommaire:
Welcome to Newford, where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Meet Jilly, painting wonders in the city streets; Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel...
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Auteur: Cumming, LauraSommaire:
In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the...
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Auteur: McGrath, M. J.Sommaire:
Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone...
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Auteur: Meade, GlennSommaire:
Dr. Laura Pavlov, a forensic archaeologist, discovers two bodies perfectly preserved in permafrost on the outskirts of the Russian city where the Romanov royal family was executed in 1918. What...
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Auteur: McGrath, M. J.Sommaire:
Half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk is in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband in his bid to win the Iditarod. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby in...
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Auteur: Chase, Loretta LyndaSommaire:
Jessica Trent is determined to save her brother from the destructive influence of Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, even if it means facing the devil himself. The trouble is,...
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Auteur: Wood, NaomiSommaire:
Narrated by Hemingway's four wives--Hadley, Fife, Martha, and Mary--this novel paints a complex portrait of the man behind the legend and the women behind the man.
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Siddons, Anne RiversSommaire:
Every August, four women would gather to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. But when one of the girls dies tragically, their vacations are brought to a halt. Years later, a...
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Auteur: McGrath, M. J.Sommaire:
Edie Kiglatuk is working as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her students is found dead in a nearby lake, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the...
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Auteur: Chase, Loretta LyndaSommaire:
Lethally charming Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded...
Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Chase, Loretta LyndaSommaire:
Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London's rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the town, the Duke of Clevedon's...
Genre: Historical fiction