Maaike Bijnsdorp Book order (chronological)

'Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until I'd finished' Stylist 'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on display' Sunday Express It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes. Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the 'knowledge' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever. Readers love The Immortalists: 'I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime' ***** 'This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it' ***** 'A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I can't praise it highly enough. A must read!' ***** 'Deserves all the noise around it' ***** 'One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time' ***** 'A perfect book club read' *****

Carcassonne 1942. A spirited and courageous young woman, Sandrine, finds herself drawn into the world of the Resistance in Carcassonne under German Occupation. Her network - codenamed 'Citadel' - is made up of ordinary women who risk everything to fight the sinister battles raging in the shadows around them. As the war reaches its violent and bloody conclusion, Sandrine's fate is tied up with that of three very different men. But who is the real enemy? Who is the real threat? And who is the true guardian of the ancient secrets that for generations have drawn people to the foothills of the Pyrenean mountains?

'This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular. Really, really just amazing' Gillian Flynn: From the author of the highly acclaimed GODS OF GOTHAM comes another vivid, gritty, historical novel set around mid-nineteenth century New York's notorious Five Points

Joining the newly formed NYPD in 1845, Timothy reluctantly assumes his duties near the notorious Five Points slum, where in the middle of the night he hears a little girl's claim that dozens of bodies have been buried in a local forest.

Gebakken lucht is een verpletterend boek dat inzicht geeft in de propaganda van regeringen. De wijze waarop kranten zonder inhoudelijke check 'gevuld' worden, en hoe media verhalen opblazen tot mythische proporties: zo bleek de millenniumbug een zeepbel, massavernietigingswapens onvindbaar, heroïne lang niet zo schadelijk als u denkt en de zogenaamde leider van Al-Quada in Irak, Abuy Musab Al-Zarqawi, een querulant en non-valeur.

From the New York Times bestselling author of I’d Give Anything and I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs—eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother—goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life.

Over the course of an eventful summer, the three Miller women--Janice, abandoned by her wealthy husband for her tennis partner; daughter Margaret, facing bankruptcy; and teenage daughter Lizzie, dealing with the loss of her reputation--do battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, country-club snobs, their own demons, and one another.

Het CSI-team in Miami krijgt melding van de vondst van het lichaam van een jonge vrouw die is aangespoed op een eilandje voor de kust van Florida. Het is inspecteur Horatio Caine al snel duidelijk wat het moordwapen is: een voor haaien bedoelde pijl die de marin gebruikt bij een experimenteel project voor het doden van vijandelijke duikers. Maar als het lijk op de autopsietafel van Alexx Woods ligt, blijkt de doodsoorzaak verdrinking. De pij is na de dood pas afgevuurd... CSI: Miami: Onderstroom is een superspannende thriller van Donn Cortez, gebaseerd op de in Amerika met vele prijzen bekroonde televisieserie.

Recounting the early life of arguably the most evil person who ever lived, Norman Mailer's account of Adolf Hitler's upbringing is appropriately narrated by someone who was there at his conception - one of Satan's devils.

Als een crimineel in Miami wordt vermoord, lijkt het om een bendeoorlog te gaan.