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Dear Life
A New York Times Bestseller — A brilliant new collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped — the moment a person turns…
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De Ontdekking van de Hamal
Twee engelen onthullen een ingenieuze manipulatie met de historie en met genetisch materiaal.
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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a complete different world: England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or…
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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent years, the follow-up to The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England. The past is a foreign country — this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ‘Gloriana’: the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as…
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Tulip Fever
In Tulip Fever, acclaimed author Deborah Moggach has created that rarest of novels–a literary tour de force that is also brilliantly, compulsively readable. Not since Patrick Suskind’s Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulip fever has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced…
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An Insular Possession
The author of the acclaimed Sour Sweet presents a sweeping historical novel about corruption and greed, class, race, love and treachery set in Macao and Canton before and during the Opium Wars of the 19th century. Nominated for England’s prestigious Booker Prize.
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The Nancy Mitford Omnibus – Four Novels of Love and High Society
The Nancy Mitford Omnibus – Four Novels of Love and High Society
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets…
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