M.V. Versluys Book order (chronological)

Sabrina beleszületett a milliókba, de mégsem élheti a gazdag nők fényűző életét. Anyja elhagyta a családot, apja korán meghalt és a bányabirodalom igazgatásának gondjai a még csaknem gyereklány nyakába szakadnak. Magánélete nincs, csak az előítéletek, a munka, a folyamatos küszködés. Aztán megjelenik az életében egy férfi. Úgy tűnik, minden rendbe jön, de a boldogság múló illúzió csupán: John, a férje, egy vonatszerencsétlenségben életét veszti. Telnek az évek, Sabrina beletörődik, ho magányosan kell leélnie az életét, fiában sincs sok öröme, ám jóval túl a negyvenen elébe egy őszülő halántékú férfi...

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

A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

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".

Sam McCready is "The Deceiver", one of Special Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and valuable operatives. However, as the Cold War ends, Sam has become expendable and his past career is reviewed at a special hearing to decide his future.

Chili Palmer, a loan shark with a knack for trouble, finds himself working for his old rival, Ray Bones, years after a personal confrontation. Tasked with collecting a debt from the seemingly deceased Leo Devoe, Chili discovers Leo is alive and in Las Vegas with a hefty insurance payout. This revelation leads him into the glitzy world of Hollywood, where he navigates the film industry while pursuing Leo. The journey blurs the lines between crime and cinema, revealing that success in both realms requires savvy and determination.

The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel

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.

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