M.V. Versluys Books

Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Until war places in jeopardy all they held dear - love, family and country.From the Left Bank of the 1930s to Nazi-occupied Paris, A FAREWELL TO FRANCE is a magnificent epic, played out against the tumultuous background of the time: a decadent French government, the life of a foreign correspondent, the grandeur of the champagne regions and the glory of the French Resistance.

Sam McCready serves Britain as Chief of Covert Operations for the Secret Intelligence Service. He's competent, dedicated, in his prime. Why then this push to get him out? The options are painful -- early retirement or an administrative backwater. But he has one other option: it's a wild card, confrontational, risky. Risky because McCready knows too much. He senses the move is more about destabilizing SIS than settling a score with him. Who wants him out, and why? And what happens if he refuses to go quietly?

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent -

Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of glamour, endless parties, and luxury among America's top celebrities--simply because she was the beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in one moment of tragedy, her father was dead, and Bettina discovered the truth--he had spent every dime he'd ever earned and run up millions in debt. At eighteen, penniless and alone, she had lost everything except her father's dearest friend, Ivo Stewart. A wealthy, handsome publisher of sixty-two, he offered Bettina a way out: marriage. But only for a time. What lay ahead for Bettina was a life filled with shocks and surprises--and eventually a chance to become a playwright, and a writer like her father. Having learned her lessons dearly, Bettina blossoms into her own person at last.

Amsterdam, 1667. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher, meets the aged, destitute painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and is powerfully drawn into his orbit. Together with a poet named Clara he begins a pursuit of the elusive man's confidence, in a quest that is at once a love affair and a layered, luminous portrait of a most mysterious artist and his world. "Here are the sights, smells, sounds and colours of the Dutch golden age alchemised into fictional gold...The marriage of art, history and fiction has rarely been so alive. A cause for celebration" - "The Times". "It is no mean feat for a young writer to pitch herself against the great master and attempt to achieve in prose the explorations of identity that Rembrandt achieved in paint...Van Rijn returns us to [the paintings] with a renewed sense of wonder" - "TLS". "An enticing journey into the past, well observed and researched, and providing a tour of the alternative artistic life of the seventeenth century" - "Sunday Times".

Het is een doodstille zondagavond in een rustige buitenwijk van Glasgow. De televisie staat aan en het avondeten wordt bereid. Maar de vredige rust wordt wreed verstoord als een gedeukte vrachtwagen voor de deur van een van de huizen stopt. Twee gewapende mannen met bivakmutsen springen eruit en stormen het huis binnen, bedreigen de bewoners met een pistool en eisen geld, veel geld. Verbijsterd zeggen de familieleden dat ze zoveel geld niet bezitten. De overvallers kidnappen de grootvader en verdwijnen in de nacht. De ervaren politievrouw Alex Morrow krijgt opdracht de mysterieuze zaak te onderzoeken. Wie waren deze mannen? En waarom denken ze dat een ogenschijnlijk normaal huishouden zoveel geld heeft te verbergen? De familieleden hebben er in elk geval nooit iets over losgelaten. Als Morrow zich verder in de zaak verdiept, komt ze allerlei diep verborgen geheimen op het spoor.

Een mooie dromerige jonge vrouw en een rijke eenzame man zoeken het geluk.

Het wel en wee binnen het gezin van een rijke Amerikaanse oliemagnaat.

Een geheim agent wordt door zijn eigen mensen achtervolgd en gaat op zoek naar het waarom.

Een Chinese student wordt in 1937 geconfronteerd met een lepra-kolonie, wat zijn levensvisie sterk beïnvloedt.