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Boek The Good Wife, geschreven door Elizabeth Buchan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis - all built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. This book shows how their empire building created the world.

A novel that pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts sc

Oxford Street, two shopping days left to Christmas, and wife and mum Clara Dunphy is

Boek The Stranger At The Palazzo D'Oro, geschreven door Paul Theroux, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

On a spring day in Vermont, 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time th

Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. This book makes sense of this extraordinary man and his controversial and heroic career. It brings out Churchill's strengths and weaknesses, looking at the

Challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. This title examines the political, social and economic changes that transformed Britain. It looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education an

Paperback edition of the bestselling novel. When Glyn Peters finds a photograph of his wife, the certainties of the past and present slip away. National press advertising and review coverage guaranteed. "Deftly edged with humour, hugely pleasurable t

Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Threatened from within by communist workers and governed by desperate British-dominated administration, Shanghai was mesmerising and terrible

Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and wi

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art

In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead. In this book, the author walks in the steps of poet John Clare

Moore's revealing and hilarious 'anti-memoir' is now published in paperback. He presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from from his early life, where he had an uncanny knack of showing up at moments where history was being made. 'Moore has ma

Boek Rules Of Engagement, The, geschreven door Anita Brookner, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewo

Offers an insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped course of Second World War. This title re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler deci

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned

From the violent anger the author suffered at the hands of his mother and father, to the continuous torments at school; from the way in which he coped with rejection from people he trusted, to suffering from bulimia and a wish to take his own life, h

Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years late

Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund.

In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood relative until one day a letter arrived from a broth

Death is not always the final reckoning: Thirty years ago, eleven-year-old Miller McAllister's father, Douglas, was locked up for killing three teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. Now Douglas is dead and Miller-always b

Probes the lives and times of two leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. Tapping into a wealth of documents and tapes, this book uncovers details about Nixon and Kissinger's personal relationship and th

Boek A Stain On The Silence, geschreven door Andrew Taylor, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allons uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across 60 years in this "New York Times" bestseller. "[A] superbly crafted narrative of espionage and foreign intrigue."--"Pu

Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see

Boek Separate Beds, geschreven door Elizabeth Buchan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek England: The Autobiography, geschreven door John Lewis-Stempel, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a successio

Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about thei

Boek What To Do When Someone Dies, geschreven door Nicci French, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if' she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at t

Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can't seem to let go of.

From the outside, Vicky Townsley would appear to have it all. Features Director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she lives alone in London, is single and seriously successful. But she'd give it all up in a heartbeat for marriage, children, a