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Boek Scoot!, geschreven door Katie Blackburn, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / General

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes'He is among the greatest poets of the English language.' F. R. Leavis'Eliot was

Happily ever after was just the beginning . . .

Hedda longs to be free. This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at the National Theatre, London, in December 2016. 'A bold, clear, finally harrowing account of the play.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Forces us to se

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.

'No breath of wind, No gleam of sun Still the white snow Whirls softly down' Outside, the world turns to white and three children and a dog build a snowman, throw snowballs and explore the frozen expanses

It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart. In the 1920s, a young man, grappling with the horrors of

In the summer of 1915, the violent death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house - now much changed - and remembers the two women with whom she onc

** Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020 **'Haunting . Superlative.' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month'A terrific novel.' A. But was it an accident?Twenty years later, Josephine Tey is faced with the accusation that it was murd

Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him.

Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and

'They belong to each other in mood, in tone and by way of certain images and words that form a ricochet of echoes - not least the word "salt".' Mineral, eerie, sensory, the poems in the collection are experienced as encounters - some with the surety

'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are br

For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previous

A title that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in judicious proportions. It is a Joycean web of literary allusions. It also includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made b

Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it's there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he's forced to try to make his own w

The renowned and controversial author of many books of poems, plays, and translations, Robert Lowell was one of the United States' most honoured poets, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Award, and the National B

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last fifty years of his life, editing and arranging Jones' correspondence with a linking commentary to form

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago.

A debut collection of short stories from an author whose work has appeared in the }Guardian, The Stinging Fly{ and }The Dublin Review{

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019Mothers is peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - characters who search without knowing what they seek.

The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time. As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is

Christmas gift edition of Armitage's hugely popular translation: with revised text, and colour illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, desp

In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III.

The Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerLonglisted for the Booker Prize'Books this good don't come along very often.' Maggie O'Farrell'A magically beguiling work, a triumph.' Financial Times 'A thing of total joy .

A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten-year-olds could kill.

Boek Before She Knew Him, geschreven door PETER SWANSON, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Spannende boeken algemeen

A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down the plane killing 164 people to save 70,000. Put on trial and charged with murder, the fate of the pilot is placed in the audi

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time.

Boek Ok, Mr Field, geschreven door Katharine Kilalea, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

A treat for fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and the works of Bill Bryson and Diana Athill.

Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir. Since her mother and sister have left home, Nomi lives with her fath

Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like K

And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric war

Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . But before he drove off he gave me a new flashlight with triple C batteries and I'm grateful for it because this is a very dark, pitch-black part of the world .