Explore the latest books of this year!
Bookbot

Jan Smit

    The Fall of Hyperion
    After River
    The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror
    Gnadenlos
    Smiley's People
    The Client
    • The Long, Long Afternoon

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.

      The Long, Long Afternoon2022
      3.8
    • Let me lie

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      'Another one-more-chapter, stay-up-late sensation' Lee Child 'A work of genius' Joanna Cannon 'No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh' Paula Hawkins -------------------------------------- The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since. Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to ask questions about her parents' deaths. But by digging up the past, is she putting her future in danger? Sometimes it's safer to let things lie . . . Discover the sensational, gripping new page-turner and NUMBER ONE Sunday Times bestseller from Clare Mackintosh, award-winning author of breakout bestsellers I See You and I Let You Go

      Let me lie2018
      3.8
    • Expats - druk 1

      • 367 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Een ex-CIA-agente heeft haar verleden verzwegen voor haar man, die ze samen met hun twee kinderen is gevolgd naar Luxemburg, waar hij als IT-er werkt voor een bank tenminste, dat denkt zij.

      Expats - druk 12014
    • The Playdate

      • 406 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere. I started reading and couldn't stop . . . a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears' Sophie Hannah

      The Playdate2012
      3.6
    • The Cardinal of the Kremlin

      • 626 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      First paperback edition. Spy thriller as an American agent within the Kremlin is about to be betrayed.

      The Cardinal of the Kremlin2010
      4.1
    • Het Teken van de Duistere God

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      De voorspelling dat Lodrik, de jeugdige heerser van Tarpol, een belangrijke rol zal spelen bij de terugkeer van de Donkere Tijd lijkt meer dan ooit waarheid te worden. Het Kwade wint terrein en lijkt de overhand te krijgen. Onder invloed van valse vrienden en onbetrouwbare adviseurs wankelt Lodrik onder de druk die van alle kanten op hem wordt uitgeoefend. Niet in de laatste plaats omdat er levensgevaar dreigt voor zijn werkelijke getrouwen en bondgenoten. Maar zo snel geven Lodriks veteranen de strijd niet op, en gelukkig neemt ook in de vrije landen het verzet tegen de demonische macht toe. Op de Vlakte van Telmaran maakt het leger van Lodrik zich op voor een beslissende strijd...

      Het Teken van de Duistere God2009
    • James Bond: Devil May Care

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Bond is back. With a vengeance. "Devil May Care" is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy-an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth on May 28, 1908. An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal, and this urgently bears looking into. Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava. He will need her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet, as a chain of events threaten to lead to global catastrophe. A British airliner goes missing over Iraq. The thunder of a coming war echoes in the Middle East. And a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf a Great Britain in the throes of the social upheavals of the late sixties. Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height of the Cold War in a story of almost unbearable pace and tension. "Devil May Care" not only captures the very essence of Fleming's original novels but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful relevance to our own times.

      James Bond: Devil May Care2008
    • Het Kyoto-virus

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Er waart een dodelijk griepvirus rond, dat een mondiale epidemie veroorzaakt. Het begint in New York, maar binnen luttele dagen vallen over de hele wereld doden. Wanneer kardinaal John Tyler ook ziek wordt, komt reporter Cotten Stone erachter dat de epidemie geen natuurlijke oorzaak heeft. Het onderzoek voert haar van Noord-Korea naar het kasteel van Dracula zelf en dan ontrafelt ze een gruwelijk geheim uit de Tweede wereldoorlog en een groep zelfmoordterroristen die zich hebben bewapend met microben in plaats van explosieven.

      Het Kyoto-virus2008
    • A blockbuster debut thriller in thetradition of Tom Clancy

      Maximum impact2008
      3.7
    • Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart. But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.

      After River2008
      4.2