Mária Borbás Boeken

Dit is het aangrijpende, imposante verhaal van een eigenaardige familie: de Claery's. Het verhaal begint rond 1900, wanneer Paddy Cleary met zijn vrouw Fiona en hun zeven kinderen naar Drogheda, een groot Australisch landgoed, verhuist. Daar leert hun dochter, de ontembare Meggie haar grote liefde kennen: de knappe en ambitieuze priester Ralph de Bricassart. Maar kan deze liefde standhouden of blijkt het Vaticaan deze liefde onmogelijk te maken...

She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny.

De gefortuneerde oude Griek Aristide Leonides wordt vergiftigd door een overdosis van zijn eigen medicijnen. Al zijn huisgenoten hebben een motief: hun aandeel in de erfenis. Terwijl de zaak nog in onderzoek is, neemt een van de verdachten het heft in eigen handen.

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme!

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.

A quiet English village A shocking murder An unlikely detective Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe. So when he's found dead in the vicarage study, there's no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead. In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven. As gossip abounds in the parlours and kitchens of the parish, everyone becomes an amateur detective. The police dismiss her as a prying busybody, but only the ingenious Miss Marple can uncover the truth . . . Never underestimate Miss Marple. 'Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers.' Val McDermid 'Always keeps her reader enthralled and guessing to the end.' Times Literary Supplement

Herinneringen, anecdotes, korte verhalen en satirische observaties van de auteur en zijn alter ego Kilgore Trout.