Ready to Read - De negentien van september (Engelstalig)
Normal People
Van Sally Rooney
Een tweede roman van Sally Rooney na Conversations with Friends van vorig jaar. The Guardian is te spreken over Normal People en denkt dat het een toekomstige klassieker zal worden: 'Rooney is such a gifted, brave, adventurous writer, so exceptionally good at observing the lies people tell themselves on the deepest level, in noting how much we forgive, and above all in portraying love.'
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there as they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at a prestigious college, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. Sally Rooney’s second novel is an exquisite love story, wry and seductive, perceptive and bold.
Normal People is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
Cherry
Van Nico Walker
Hebbanrecensent Esa kon niet anders dan de volle vijf sterren schenken aan deze bijzonderde debuutroman: 'Deze anti-fairytale valt zwaar op de nuchtere maag, maar verteert gemakkelijker door de bij tijden poëtische noot en humoristische ondertoon. Door de onbeduidendheid van het alles en het gebrek aan hoop wil je dit boek niemand aanraden. En toch is het noodzakelijk, al was het maar omwille van z’n uitzonderlijke schoonheid en briljantie.' Cherry is geschreven op een typemachine, vanuit de gevangenis waar Walker nog twee jaar van zijn elfjarige straf moet uitzitten.
Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York and he flunks out of school and joins the Army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an Army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at--robbing banks. Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.
Cherry is beschikbaar vanaf 1 september.
Future Popes of Ireland
Van Darragh Martin
Hebbanrecensent Silke over Future Popes of Ireland: 'Martin slaagt erin om een klein verhaal groots te maken. Een simpel verhaal over familie en hun problemen, wordt een kroniek van een land in overgang. Ontspannend? Neen, dat niet. Informatief en met momenten erg entertainend? Zeker weten.' De Independent doet er nog een schepje bovenop: 'A sharp chronicler, you can practically smell the past as it wafts up at you from his pages. And while there's tragedy, and outrage, too, there's whipsmart satire and riotous comedy alongside a type of scholarliness that provides this novel with its zest and ingenuity. Think Zadie Smith. But much funnier.' Auteur John Boyne noemt het 'hilarious and timely, a dazzling debut’.
Bridget Doyle has one goal: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Thirty years later, it seems unlikely any of Granny Doyle’s grandchildren are going to fulfil her hopes. Damien is trying to find the courage to tell her he’s gay. Rosie is a dreamy blue-haired rebel. And John Paul is a chancer and a charmer - but he’s not exactly Pontiff material. None of them have contact with their sister Peg, ever since she ran away from home as a teenager. But that’s about to change…
Future Popes of Ireland is beschikbaar vanaf 1 september. We geven vijf 'limited edition proof copies' weg in ruil voor een recensie mét redactiefeedback. Kijk snel bij de winactie!
Vox
Van Christina Dalcher
Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
This is just the beginning...
Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard.
...not the end.
For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.
Vox is beschikbaar vanaf 1 september. Let op: je kunt het boek winnen in de leesclubinschrijving!
Time’s Convert
Van Deborah Harkness
Set in contemporary Paris and London, and the American colonies during the upheaval and unrest that exploded into the Revolutionary War,A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities for change that braids together the past and present.
Time's Convert is beschikbaar vanaf 18 september.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Van Hank Green
Twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture, a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor. April and her friend Andy make a video with it and upload it to YouTube.There are Carls in cities all around the world, and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is beschikbaar vanaf 25 september.
Transcription
Van Kate Atkinson
The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson, a major publishing event. In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong was reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A work of rare depth and texture, a bravura novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy.
Transcription is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
Salvation
Van Peter F. Hamilton
Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet mankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful...until a crashed alien spaceship is found on a newly-located world 89 light years from Earth, harboring seventeen human victims. And of the high-powered team dispatched to investigate the mystery, one is an alien spy...
Bursting with tension and big ideas, this standalone series highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game, as the interweaving story lines tell us not only how humanity arrived at this moment, but also the far-future consequences that spin off from it.
Salvation is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
The Monsters we deserve
Van Marcus Sedgwick
In a remote chalet in the Alps above Geneva, an author broods on Mary Shelley's infamous creation. Reality and perception merge, fuelled by poisoned thoughts. Humankind makes monsters but who really creates who? This is a book about reason, the imagination, and the creative act of reading and writing. Marcus Sedgwick's ghostly, menacing novel celebrates the legacy of Frankenstein in its bicentenary year.
The Monsters we deserve is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Van Rena Rossner
Raised in a small village surrounded by vast forests, Liba and Laya have lived a peaceful sheltered life - even if they've heard of troubling times for Jews elsewhere. When their parents travel to visit their dying grandfather Liba discovers the secret that their Tati can transform into a bear, and their Mami into a swan. Perhaps, Liba realizes, the old fairy tales are true.
The Sisters of the Winter Wood is beschikbaar vanaf 27 september.
A Line in the Dark
Van Malinda Lo
Jess can live without Angie knowing her real feelings, just so long as they're best friends. But when Angie meets Margot, Jess recognizes that things will never be the same. Dark, disturbing, and full of twists, this cleverly crafted YA mystery that will delight readers craving a queer teenage girl antihero just as morally complicated as her male counterparts.
A Line in the Dark is beschikbaar vanaf 4 september.
Beasts made of Night
Van Tochi Onyebuchi
Seventeen-year-old Taj is the most talented sin-eater indentured by the Guild, a ruthless organization of mages that runs a lucrative trade absolving the rich. In a world where sin can be magically transferred from sinner to "sin-eater" for a cost, gifted young Taj uncovers a dark secret and must rely on his deadly talents to save the kingdom--and his own life.
Beasts Made of Night is beschikbaar vanaf 4 september.
And the Ocean was our sky
Van Patrick Ness
Call me Bathsheba." So begins this haunting novel by the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls, echoing the most famous opening sentence ever written. In And the Ocean Was Our Sky the world of Moby Dick is turned upside down, and we see the story through the eyes of the whale. Bathsheba's tale is of the hunt for a legend and a myth, the hunt for a devil named Toby Wick, whose white hull lurks in the deep. She is bound by an ancient prophecy to find him. But is he really the devil that Bathsheba seeks? A timeless story about the power of obsession and the injustice of war.
And the Ocean was our Sky is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
Art Matters
Van Gaiman & Riddell
A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Be bold. Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters. Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'. This little book is the embodiment of that vision.
Art Matters is beschikbaar vanaf 6 september.
The Corset
Van Laura Purcell
A new Victorian chiller from the author of The Silent Companions. Can the shape of a person’s skull foretell their destiny? For Dorothea, this is fact. But when she is led to teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. But the story Ruth has to tell – of bitterness, betrayal, death and dresses – will shake Dorothea’s beliefs.
The Corset is beschikbaar vanaf 20 september.
Take Nothing with you
Van Patrick Gale
Ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother.
Take Nothing With You is beschikbaar vanaf 1 september.
Ghost Wall
Van Sarah Moss
Teenager Silvie’s life in a hut in Northumberland is an archaeological experiment. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with re-enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie's narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape slowly reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual, as the summer builds to its harrowing climax.
Ghost Wall is beschikbaar vanaf 20 september.
War of the Wolf
Van Bernard Cornwell
Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies old and new, he doesn’t have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their incursion, ever hungry for land. Uhtred – a legendary warrior, admired as an ally, feared as an enemy – is once again torn between his two heritages…
War of the Wolf is beschikbaar vanaf 20 september.
The Winter Soldier
Van Daniel Mason
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.
The Winter Soldier is beschikbaar vanaf 3 september.
Twee bonustitels die je niet mag missen
The Future is Female!
Warning: the visionary women writers in this landmark anthology may permanently alter perceptions of American science fiction. Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The Future is Female! is beschikbaar vanaf 25 september
If Cats Disappeared from the World
van Genki Kawamura
A Japanese million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking tale that asks: when you find out your days are numbered, what would you be willing to give up, for one extra day of life?
If Cats Disappeared from the World is beschikbaar vanaf 20 september.
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