Nr Titel Auteur Beschrijving Categorie
SCH-04881 The Female Eunuch GREER Germaine The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved. Engelse romans 
SCH-04880 The End of the Affair GREENE Graham Henry Miles, a civil servant, suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf. Maurice has a secret, however: he was once Sarah's lover, and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too ... Engelse romans 
SCH-04879 Our Man in Havana GREENE Graham Jim Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter?s increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their ?man in Havana? he can?t afford to say no. There?s just one problem?he doesn?t know anything! To avoid suspicion, he begins to recruit nonexistent sub-agents, concocting a series of intricate fictions. But Wormold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth than he could have ever imagined? Engelse romans 
SCH-04878 The Comedians GREENE Graham Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself... Engelse romans 
SCH-04877 The Human Factor GREENE Graham A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway and time for him to retire with his African wife, Sarah. Engelse romans 
SCH-04875 The Heart of the Matter GREENE Graham Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences. Engelse romans 
SCH-04874 The Quiet American GREENE Graham Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam. I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress. Engelse romans 
SCH-04873 The Third Man and the Fallen Idol GREENE Graham This volume contains two Graham Greene novels. The Third Man is a thriller set in Vienna after World War II, and The Fallen Idol a psychological drama of personal relationships and a boy's tragic initiation into the world of adult emotions. Engelse romans 
SCH-04872 The Power and the Glory GREENE Graham In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control, God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Engelse romans 
SCH-04869 Brighton Rock GREENE Graham A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'. Engelse romans 
SCH-04868 King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table GREEN Roger Lancelyn King Arthur is one of the greatest legends of all time. From the magical moment when Arthur releases the sword in the stone to the quest for the Holy Grail and the final tragedy of the Last Battle, Roger Lancelyn Green brings the enchanting world of King Arthur stunningly to life. One of the greatest legends of all time, Engelse romans 
SCH-04867 Even Courser Sport GREEN Michael Frederick Humorous short stories about sports. Engelse romans 
SCH-04866 Island Magic GOUDGE Elizabeth Elizabeth Goudge's first novel is set in the Channel Islands during the late 1800s. It's a story of one family's struggle to connect with one another, heal, and persevere. The year is 1888. Rachell and Andre du Frocq live on a run-down farm in the town of St. Pierre, on one of the Channel Islands (between England and the coast of Normandy). The proud parents of five high-spirited children, they have wrestled their happiness out of heartache: they've buried three babies and depleted Rachell's inheritance to keep the farm alive. When a shipwrecked man lands on the island, Rachell takes him in. The man, Ranulph, has spent his whole life refusing to be tied down to anyone or any place, yet he finds the du Frocq family hard to resist. Engelse romans 
SCH-04865 The Other Side GORDON Mary A darkly gripping portrait of an Irish-American family A multi-generational novel set over the course of a day, The Other Side centers on the journey of Vincent and Ellen MacNamara. Married for sixty-six years, the two have seen their share of hardships: emigration from Ireland to America; the bitter disappointments handed down to their children and grandchildren; and, most recently, setbacks to their health. In The Other Side, Vincent returns from a period of convalescence in a nursing home after Ellen, disoriented from a stroke, had pushed him to the ground, injuring him. As family members assemble, the incident becomes a nexus for the anger, anguish, and misunderstandings that have simmered for decades. Engelse romans 
SCH-04863 The Spire GOLDING William Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Engelse romans 
SCH-04862 Lord of the Flies GOLDING William The novel is a catalyst for thought-provoking discussion and analysis, not only concerning the capabilities of humans for good and evil and the fragility of moral inhibition, but beyond. The boys' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks. Ideas of community, leadership, and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power, why, and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be. Engelse romans 
SCH-04849 Killing Me Softly FRENCH Nicci Alice Loudon couldn't resist abandoning her old, safe life for a wild affair. And in Adam Tallis, a rugged mountaineer with a murky past, she finds a man who can teach her things about herself that she never even suspected. But sexual obsession has its dark side - and so does Adam. Soon both are threatening all that Alice has left. Engelse romans 
SCH-04850 Freedom FRANZEN Jonathan From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections comes a darkly comedic novel about family. Franzen's intensely realized characters struggle to learn how to live in an ever-confusing world--one with the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire. Engelse romans 
SCH-04848 Straight FRANCES Dick A jockey becomes the sole inheritor of his late brother's business, horse, mistress, and enemies. Engelse romans 
SCH-04847 The Drowning Pond FORDE Catherine Nikki encounters real evil when she tries to ingratiate herself with the other girls in her school by helping them to pick on an even more unpopular girl, Loopy Loner Lizzie Brownie, by tying her up and throwing her in a pond as people used to do to witches in Scotland. Engelse romans 
SCH-04845 Fat Boy Swim FORDE Catherine Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish teenager who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim. Engelse romans 
SCH-04844 Fifteen Minute Bob FORDE Catherine Rory resents his struggling songwriter father, who regards music above his family, and tensions become worse when two of Rory's best friends begin to collaborate with his father and become an online sensation. Engelse romans 
SCH-04843 Tug of War FORDE Catherine In 2012 The Emergency begins as terrorist bombs shatter cities around the UK and wreak havoc on normal life. Molly?s parents decide to send her and her brother, John, away from Glasgow to safety in the countryside. Molly is sent to Paradise Farm where she is cared for by Pernilla, who has always wanted a child, and gives Molly everything she desires. Pernilla?s youthful enthusiasm is in stark contrast to Molly?s own frumpy, daggy mum. Molly is so caught up in her new life that she fails to take action when her friend, Fergal, tells her that John has been sent to live with an abusive farmer. Engelse romans 
SCH-04842 Atonement EWAN Ian Mc On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. Engelse romans 
SCH-04840 The Millstone DRABBLE Margaret It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood. Engelse romans