• Jane Davis Small Eden

  Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...

  Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 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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• Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

  ´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...

  Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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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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• Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance

  Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...

  Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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• Tanya Commandeur Uit liefde, meneer Tuschinski

  Tanya Commandeur schreef met Uit liefde, meneer Tuschinski een meeslepende historische roman over de verboden liefde van bioscoopmagnaat Abraham Tuschinski. Abraham Tuschinski en zijn zwagers Hermann Ehrlich en Hersch Gerschtanowitz openen in 1912 een exclusief theater voor film in de Hoogstraat in Rotterdam. Abraham is een man met visie, en vooral met lef. Zelfs in de Eerste Wereldoorlog durft hij zijn filmtheaters uit te breiden en legt hij het slecht bekendstaande buurtje Duvelshoek in Amsterdam...

  Nederlands | 7 uur 7 minuten (410 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Simone van der Vlugt Jacoba, dochter van Holland

  Historische roman

  In deze historische roman kruipt Simone van der Vlugt op overtuigende wijze in de huid van Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436). Jacoba was haar tijd ver vooruit, stak haar feministische ideeën niet onder stoelen of banken en koos ook in de liefde niet altijd voor de makkelijkste weg. Het lot was Jacoba slecht gezind. Op haar vijftiende werd zij al weduwe en snel daarna overleed haar vader, graaf Willem IV. Zo werd zij gravin van Holland, Zeeland en Henegouwen. We leren een vrouw kennen die veel te verduren...

  Nederlands | 8 uur 52 minuten (511 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Simone van der Vlugt Rode sneeuw in december

  Historische roman tegen de achtergrond van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Het is 1552, de vooravond van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Lideweij Feelinck krijgt een relatie met de jonge arts Andries Griffioen, aanhanger van het protestantisme. Om met hem te kunnen trouwen trotseert ze de wil van haar vader, die met haar breekt en haar onterft. Het jonge stel vestigt zich in Breda, waar ze een nauwe band krijgen met prins Willem van Oranje. Maar het politieke klimaat verandert, het protestantisme wint terrein...

  Nederlands | 14 uur 2 minuten (808 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Simone van der Vlugt Nachtblauw

  Historische roman

  In de historische roman Nachtblauw van bestsellerauteur Simone van der Vlugt komt huishoudster Catrijn, die op de vlucht is voor haar verleden, terecht in de plateelfabriek van Evert van Nulandt in Delft. Als de toevoer van porselein uit China stopt, besluit Evert het populaire aardewerk na te maken. En Catrijns talent voor schilderen komt daarbij goed van pas. Er breken woelige tijden aan. Catrijn overleeft in 1654 ternauwernood de Delftse donderslag, die de binnenstad in puin legt, en komt daarna...

  Nederlands | 8 uur 55 minuten (513 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Lily Graham Summer at Seafall Cottage

  ‘Hands down one of the best books I've read in a long time. This story hooks you immediately, one cannot put it down. I even dreamed about the book!’ Goodreads Reviewer 5* Victoria Langley needs to find a refuge when her husband leaves her. She finds it, in the shape of Seafall Cottage on a Cornwall clifftop. The unkempt cottage in the village of Tregollan is a perfect place to recharge - particularly when she finds a fascinating diary from 1905. Victoria determines to solve the secrets the diary...

  Engels | 9 uur 10 minuten (407 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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• Lady Victoria Howard Mirror Hours

  A Change of Direction - a Time Travel Romance

  Victoria experiences a time slip that conjures William into her dreams. Fellow time traveller, Ruth, advises her to return the marble to Jude’s home, which she does, but the pair fall out over the ongoing land dispute. What Victoria knows for sure is that she needs to learn more about William and Molly and she wastes no time in travelling through the mirror to the Victorian era, to discover more truths. Back in the present-day, Victoria visits a Scottish castle with George but again she gets more...

  Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (223 MB) | LUST, København | 2022

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• Lady Victoria Howard Mirror Hours

  Fun and Fury - a Time Travel Romance

  Victoria's adventures continue through the mirror and she embarks on a Viking adventure where she is worshipped in a sexual ritual as a goddess. In the late 1930s, she arrives on the ‘Gone with the Wind’ film set where she has a sexual encounter with Clark Gable dressed as Rhett Butler. In the present-day, she meets the wealthy art collector, George Shervashidze. Then, in Bibury, she meets George’s almost complete opposite, Jude. Victoria finds her mind flitting from various men; Ragnar, George,...

  Engels | 6 uur 24 minuten (280 MB) | LUST, København | 2022

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• Olivia Lara Someday in Paris

  Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...

  Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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• Carlo Gébler I, Antigone

  "I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...

  Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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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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• 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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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild

  Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies. Who kidnapped...

  Engels | 3 uur 30 minuten (152 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Leopard Man's Story

  "King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart. Who is the murderer and why did he hate the lion trainer so much? Who does the "Leopard Man" suspect and will he be able to reveal the truth? What will happen to...

  Engels | 10 minuten (7,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads To Build a Fire

  A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend – a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin. Why is the man travelling through the Canadian frozen lands? Where is he heading to? Will he manage...

  Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw

  A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...

  Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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