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Ton Heuvelmans

    Sunset Park
    The Lonely Hearts Hotel
    Niets verdwijnt
    Trainspotting
    The Millstone
    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    • Classic / British English Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?

      Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
      3.9
    • Een Engelsman en een Amerikaan worden verliefd op hetzelfde meisje; zij vraagt een guru om raad.

      The Millstone
      3.9
    • Trainspotting

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life. 'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius.' Sunday Times

      Trainspotting
      4.2
    • Niets verdwijnt

      • 401 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Tijdens een bezoek aan zijn oude college in Oxford wordt de vrouw van Alex Petersen, de mooie en levenslustige Rachel, vermoord. Alex' leven verandert ingrijpend. Een halfjaar na de moord keert Alex terug naar Oxford. Stap voor stap probeert hij het mysterie rond haar dood te ontrafelen. Alex wordt in Oxford hartelijk ontvangen door Harry, voormalig docent en mentor van Rachel, een man die tijdens haar leven overal bij betrokken lijkt te zijn. Maar welke rol speelt Harry? En wat hebben haar universiteitsvrienden, Anthony en Cissy, ermee te maken? Zij deelden een voorliefde voor verboden activiteiten met Rachel. Langzamerhand leert Alex dat noch zijn eigen leven noch zijn liefde ook maar enigszins is wat hij dacht. 'Een literaire thriller verpakt in een whodunit-liefdesverhaal.' - John Boyne, auteur van 'De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama' 'Superieur. Een uitzonderlijke roman. De plot is overtuigend zonder afgezaagd te zijn.' - The Observer 'De spanning van Nicci French en de bruisende intelligentie van Donna Tarts De verborgen geschiedenis. Lees dit boek nu voordat iedereen erover praat.' - Elle

      Niets verdwijnt
      3.9
    • A novel about childhood damage and the redemptive power of art from an author twice listed for the Women's Prize and the Giller Prize

      The Lonely Hearts Hotel
      4.0
    • Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago.What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father - a confrontation he has been avoiding for years.Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

      Sunset Park
      3.7
    • All That Is

      • 290 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It was a time when publishing was still a private affair - a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe - a time of gatherings in fabled apartments, parties into the night. It is a world in which to immerse himself, a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad; another fails to happen; and, finally, he meets a woman who enthralls, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose, All That Is fiercely, fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change: a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, of the small shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

      All That Is
      3.4
    • The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: - What President Trump's staff really thinks of him - What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama - Why FBI director James Comey was really fired - Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room - Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing - What the secret to communicating with Trump is - What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

      Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House
      3.4
    • De genoegens van mannen

      • 335 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Spitalfields, Londen, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul woont in een vervallen huis in de East End. Ze heeft weinig vrienden en weinig om de dagen door te komen, behalve haar eigen rijke fantasie. Maar dan vindt er een moord plaats. En nog een. De moordenaar heeft het voorzien op vrouwen en stopt als een soort merkteken haar in hun mond en vouwt hun armen en benen onder hen zodat het eruitziet als geknakte vleugels. Terwijl Catherine nieuwsgierig het nieuws over de moorden volgt, beseft ze langzamerhand dat geheimen uit haar eigen verleden verband houden met deze moorden en dat ze leeft in een wereld waarin niets is wat het lijkt, een wereld van seksuele obsessies, verraad en moord, en van een waarheid die beangstigender is dan iemand zich kan voorstellen.

      De genoegens van mannen
    • BlackBirds: The Picture of Dorian Gray

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Een jongeman is gedoemd om uiterlijk zijn stralende jeugd te behouden, terwijl het geleidelijk achteruitgaan van zijn portret zijn toenemende innerlijke aftakeling onthult.

      BlackBirds: The Picture of Dorian Gray