Thomas Karel Beek Books

A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila Henríquez-Ureña, a teacher whose mother was Salomé Ureña, famous nineteenth-century political poet from the Dominican Republic.

All were orphans when they met in their teens in the late seventies, and they vowed to be a family. As they reunite at a film party in London, it is Rosalind Madigan, who holds them together. An Academy Award-winning designer, Rosie is troubled by commitments that leave her feeling estranged from herself and her friends: Gavin Ambrose, a Hollywood megastar, a brilliant actor/producer whose personal life is not as successful as it appears... Nell Jeffrey, head of an international public relations firm and Rosie's best friend, a glamorous woman having a secret love affair... and Kevin Madigan, Rosie's brother, an undercover cop in the NYPD Crime Intelligence Division who specialises in fighting organised crime. Into their midst come a dashing French aristocrat and the world's most successful popular singer, two men who disrupt - and irrevocably transform - "the family."

De ex-vrouw van de Amerikaanse zanger Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977) geeft een beeld van zijn turbulente leven.

The bittersweet love story of Elvis Presley's secret passion--and the child he never knew. Elvis Presley was just eighteen when he fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old French dancer--his first and only true love. They kept their passion secret from the world for 24 years. Now Lucy de Barbin breaks her silence and reveals all: the secret meetings, heartbreaking love scenes, tears and tenderness--and the beautiful daughter that Elvis never knew he had.

Een in het Westen opgeleide Maleisische advocate moet zowel zakelijk als privé keuzes maken.

Een ex-huurling wordt ingehuurd als lijfwacht voor een 11-jarig meisje.