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M.V. Versluys

    Van Rijn
    Loving
    Get Shorty
    Midnight's Children
    The Deceiver
    A Farewell to France
    • 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.

      Loving2009
      3.7
    • De tuin van de Samoerai

      • 303 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

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

      De tuin van de Samoerai2008
    • Van Rijn

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      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".

      Van Rijn2006
      3.1
    • The Deceiver

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      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?

      The Deceiver2006
      4.0
    • Get Shorty

      • 292 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Press kit includes a listing of cast and credits, a short synopsis of the story and production information.

      Get Shorty1991
      3.8
    • 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 -

      Midnight's Children1990
      4.0
    • 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.

      A Farewell to France1984
      4.1
    • Broederschap van de roos

      • 380 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

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

      Broederschap van de roos1970