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De Clifton Kronieken Reeks

Deze meeslepende, generatie-overkoepelende saga vertelt de levens van één familie gedurende de twintigste eeuw, met reizen van Europa naar Amerika. Dompel u onder in een verhaal vol liefde, verraad, rivaliteit en onverwachte triomfen. Zie hoe personages persoonlijke uitdagingen en belangrijke historische gebeurtenissen doorkruisen en hun lot vormen. De blijvende kracht van familiebanden, ambitie en het nastreven van een eigen nalatenschap vormen de kern van dit boeiende verhaal.

Cometh the Hour
Mightier Than The Sword
Be careful what you wish for
Best Kept Secret
The Sins of the Father
De tijd zal het leren

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    De tijd zal het leren

    4,3(8690)Tarief

    'Er is me altijd verteld dat mijn vader in de oorlog was gesneuveld.' Zo begint in 1920 het epische levensverhaal van Harry Clifton. Harry, de zoon van een havenarbeider in Bristol, heeft zijn vader nooit gekend. De verwachting is dat ook Harry een toekomst op de werf tegemoet gaat, maar dankzij een opmerkelijke gave wordt hij toegelaten tot een exclusieve jongensschool, waardoor zijn leven onomkeerbaar verandert. Als Harry een volwassen man is, komt hij er eindelijk achter hoe zijn vader echt aan zijn einde kwam. De verschrikkelijke waarheid leidt Harry naar een volgende vraag: was Arthur Clifton eigenlijk wel zijn vader? Is hij het kind van een arme havenwerker, of is hij de oudste zoon van de erfgenaam van een scheepsimperium?

    De tijd zal het leren
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    The Sins of the Father

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    • 16 uur lezen
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    A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harry's own.

    The Sins of the Father
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    Best Kept Secret

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    In the third installment of the Clifton Chronicles, set in 1945, the House of Lords faces a tie over the inheritance of the Barrington family fortune. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote significantly impacts Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. While Harry promotes his latest novel in America, Emma searches for a little girl abandoned in her father's office on the night of his murder. As the General Election approaches, Giles is shocked by the Conservative candidate chosen to oppose him. Ultimately, it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who affects his uncle's future. By 1957, Sebastian earns a scholarship to Cambridge, introducing a new generation of the Clifton family. However, after being expelled from school, he becomes embroiled in an international art fraud involving a valuable Rodin statue. The story raises questions about Sebastian's future: Will he become a millionaire? Will he attend Cambridge? Is his life at risk? This installment promises answers while presenting new mysteries to unravel.

    Best Kept Secret
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    Be careful what you wish for

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    • 14 uur lezen
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    While Harry and Emma race to discover the fate of their son after a terrible car accident, Don Pedro Martinez plots to install a puppet chairman at the Barrington Shipping Company and Jessica's nuptials are sabotaged by a poisonous friend.

    Be careful what you wish for
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    Mightier Than The Sword

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    A bomb detonates, leaving the fate of passengers on the MV Buckingham uncertain. Upon arriving in New York, Harry learns from his publisher, Harold Guinzberg, that he has been elected president of English PEN, allowing him to advocate for the release of fellow author Anatoly Babakov, imprisoned in a Russian Gulag for his revealing book about working for Josef Stalin. Harry's commitment to Babakov's cause puts his own life at risk. Meanwhile, Emma Clifton, now Chairman of Barrington Shipping, faces backlash from the IRA bombing of her ship, with some board members urging her resignation while others, including newly elected Sebastian Clifton, support her leadership. Giles Barrington, now a Minister of the Crown, encounters political turmoil following an unsuccessful diplomatic trip to East Germany, exacerbated by Major Alex Fisher's decision to challenge him in the upcoming general election. Sebastian proposes to his girlfriend Samantha, who initially accepts but later withdraws her commitment upon discovering his secretive actions. The narrative culminates in two court trials: a high-profile libel case in London involving Emma and Lady Virginia Fenwick, and a show trial in Russia where Harry is arrested as a spy. Thus unfolds the fifth installment of the Clifton Chronicles.

    Mightier Than The Sword
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    Cometh the Hour

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    Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - all of which went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.

    Cometh the Hour
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    This Was A Man

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    This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank, but only after Hakim Bishara has to resign for personal reasons. Sebastian and Samantha’s talented daughter, Jessica, is expelled from the Slade School of Fine Art, but her aunt Grace comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons. In a devastating twist, tragedy engulfs the Clifton family when one of them receives a shocking diagnosis that will throw all their lives into turmoil. This Was a Man is the captivating final installment of the Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world, and enhanced Jeffrey Archer’s reputation as a master storyteller.

    This Was A Man