Another World

Author

Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....

Author

Andrew Miller

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0802126022

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in "The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares" Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Taken by an older...

Author	Henry Green
ISBN	0099285096

One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe, invading one another's provinces...

Author

Jan Siebelink

Mijn eerste Siebelink! Om de één of andere reden was ik geïntimideerd door “Knielen op een bed violen” en heb ik het wel gekocht, maar niet gelezen. Als “Jas van belofte” is geschreven in een stijl die typerend is voor Siebelink, denk ik dat ik KOEBV een heerlijk boek ga vinden. Ik vond JVB op...

Author	Greg Keyes
ISBN	0345440714

When the legendary Briar King awoke from his slumber, a season of darkness and horror fell upon the Kingdom of Crotheny. Now countless breeds of unspeakable monsters roam the countryside. An epidemic of madness has transformed peaceful villagers from the wildlands into savage, flesh-eating fiends....