Uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to describe what life was like for nineteenth-century children of the rich living in the English countryside

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The blockbusting novel is the stuff of writers’ dreams. In How to Write a Blockbuster Sarah Harrison draws on her own experience to tell you what you can do to make that dream into a reality. In this entertaining and inspiring guide she offers advice and observations on: * What constitutes a blockbuster * Ideas…

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In a novel full of poetry and mysterious settings, Hardy unfolds the story of his beautiful, suffering Tess with unforgettable tenderness and intensity.

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Traces Scotland’s history from ancient times to the present day and examines its triumphs, disasters, heroes and villians

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The bestselling, award-winning author of The Radleys is back with what may be his best, funniest, and most devastating dark comedy yet. When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician atCambridge University, the visitor is…

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The funny, charming, and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert & Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated and tattooed according to local tradition, but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus. Beyond the…

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The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIII’s pursuit of Anne Boleyn – and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. This chance for us Howards comes once in a century… 1521. Henry VIII rules over a fashionable court alive with pageant and celebration, the lack of a son…

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A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today’s most versatile and compelling storytellers. It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s…

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Hazel (16, ik-figuur) weet niet hoe lang ze nog te leven heeft. Vanwege die onzekerheid biedt ze aanvankelijk weerstand tegen de toenadering van Gus (17), die zelf kanker overwonnen lijkt te hebben. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

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