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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > First World War fiction
In Belgie loop die negentiende eeu ook ten einde. Elisabeth, die
dogter van die smid, trou met die jong dokter, Guillaume
Duponselle. Dit sal nie ’n gelukkige huwelik word nie. As Elisabeth
agt maande later aan ’n tweeling geboorte skenk, is die
eersgeborene ’n pragtige seun, Valentyn. Die tweede kind is so
mismaak dat Guillaume weier om hom ’n naam te gee. Tog bly Naamloos
lewe. Omdat sy voorkoms sy vader en die dorpenaars ontstel, gaan
Naamloos gesluierd deur die lewe. Dan tree die Eerste Wereldoorlog
op die toneel. Van kant gemaak vertel ’n broeierige verhaal vol
dorpsgefluister. Vir almal verloop die toekoms anders as wat hulle
verwag.
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From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker -
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary
Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance
of Solomon Farthing. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn
ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the
only clue to the truth . . . An old soldier dies alone in his
Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no Will to enact.
Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and fifty thousand
pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit . . .
Heir Hunter, Solomon Farthing - down on his luck, until, perhaps,
now - is tipped off on this unexplained fortune. Armed with only
the deceased's name and the crumpled pawn ticket, he must find the
dead man's closest living relative if he is to get a cut of this
much-needed cash. But in trawling through the deceased's family
tree, Solomon uncovers a mystery that goes back to 1918 and a group
of eleven soldiers abandoned in a farmhouse billet in France in the
weeks leading up to the armistice. Set between contemporary
Edinburgh and the final brutal days of the First World War as the
soldiers await their orders, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
shows us how the debts of the present can never be settled unless
those of the past have been paid first . . .
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Beau Geste
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P.C. Wren, Percival Christopher Wren
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Toe Mata Hari in Parys aangekom het, was sy platsak. Kort daarna is
sy gevier as die elegantste vrou in die stad. As ’n danseres het sy
gehore geskok en verruk, as ’n vertroueling en courtisane het sy
die rykste en magtigste mans van haar era betower. Maar paranoia as
gevolg van die oorlog het Frankryk verteer, en Mata Hari se
leefstyl het haar onder verdenking geplaas. In 1917 is sy
gearresteer in haar hotelkamer aan die Champs-Elysees en van
spioenasie aangekla. Die Spioen is die onvergeetlike verhaal van ’n
vrou wat dit gewaag het om die konvensies van haar tyd uit te daag
en die prys daarvoor betaal het, soos vertel in Mata Hari se stem
in haar finale brief.
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