Nr Titel Auteur Beschrijving Categorie
SCH-05034 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich SOLZHENITSYN Alexander Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Engelse romans 
SCH-05033 Cancer Ward SOLZHENITSYN Alexander Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Engelse romans 
SCH-05031 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning SILLITOE Alan This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he knows what he wants, and he's sharp enough to get it. Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women become the stuff of local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl and life begins to look less simple... Engelse romans 
SCH-05029 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society SHAFFER Mary Ann & BARROWS Annie It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of life in Guernsey under the German Occupation, Juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name. Engelse romans 
SCH-05028 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society SHAFFER Mary Ann & BARROWS Annie It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of life in Guernsey under the German Occupation, Juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name. Engelse romans 
SCH-05027 Two Fair Plaits SAVILLE Malcolm The second Jillies story is about the kidnapping of a little girl with the two fair plaits of the title. It's atmospheric in its description of foggy 1940s London in the run-up to Christmas, the plot moves at a fair pace, and the involvement of a bunch of children is almost believable Engelse romans 
SCH-05026 The Third Deadly Sin SANDERS Lawrence A high-voltage thriller, this is the story of the Hotel Ripper who stalks New York's nightside and the retired cop named Edward X. Delaney who must stop him. Engelse romans 
SCH-05025 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close FOER Jonathan Safran In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key ... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins Oskar's quest, but will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? Engelse romans 
SCH-05024 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close FOER Jonathan Safran In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key ... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins Oskar's quest, but will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? Engelse romans 
SCH-05023 How I Live Now ROSOFF Meg Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then? Engelse romans 
SCH-05022 How I Live Now ROSOFF Meg Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then? Engelse romans 
SCH-05021 How I Live Now ROSOFF Meg Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful. There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces. How will Daisy live then? Engelse romans 
SCH-05019 Fixation PULMAN Jack Easy reader. The city is clean. There is no crime here. Police Chief Groczek sees to that. The city streets are safe and no shadows trouble Chief Groczek. But a man is coming to the city, a man with a purpose, a fixation. Does he plan to steal $10,000,000 of heroin? Or is he after something else? Somebody else? Engelse romans 
SCH-05018 The Lion in the North PREBBLE John The Lion in the North is a good overview of Scottish history from the formation of Scotland into a single country until it joined the Union and settled in as part of Britain. Prebble admits that this is a personal view of Scottish history. Engelse romans 
SCH-05017 Cry, the Beloved Country PATON Alan Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. Engelse romans 
SCH-05016 A Hungarian Quartet OTTLIK G. e.a. Four contemporary short stories by Hungarian writers. Engelse romans 
SCH-05014 Animal Farm ORWELL George Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain?s most popular novels ? is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. ?All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.? Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Engelse romans 
SCH-05015 Animal Farm ORWELL George Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain?s most popular novels ? is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. ?All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.? Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Engelse romans 
SCH-05008 Nineteen Eighty-Four ORWELL George One of Britain?s most popular novels, George Orwell?s dystopian tale 1984 is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. ?It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.? Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ? even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . . Engelse romans 
SCH-05007 Nineteen Eighty-Four ORWELL George One of Britain?s most popular novels, George Orwell?s dystopian tale 1984 is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. ?It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.? Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ? even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . . Engelse romans 
SCH-05006 The English Patient ONDAATJE Michael In an Italian villa at the end of World War II, a mysterious English patient lies nameless and burned in an upstairs room. Engelse romans 
SCH-05000 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall MILLIGAN Spike Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked This is your enemy . I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train ...' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway'). Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. Engelse romans 
SCH-04999 The Moon and Sixpence MAUGHAM W. Somerset Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius. Engelse romans 
SCH-04998 Catalina. A Romance MAUGHAM W. Somerset Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. Engelse romans 
SCH-04995 Could it be? MARLAND Michael ed. A collection of stories of the supernatural and horrific. Engelse romans