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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

M. John Harrison – The Course of the Heart

M. John Harrison The Course of the Heart recensie, review en informatie van de roman uit 1990 van de Engelse schrijver. Op 7 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Serpent’s Tail Classics de heruitgave van de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver M. John Harrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en van de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

M. John Harrison The Course of the Heart recensie en review

  • “A spare textual elegance and closure-denying restraint that impresses and fulfils.” (Iain Banks)
  • “A gloriously intelligent, beautifully written and thoroughly maddening book.” (Independent)

M. John Harrison The Course of the Heart

The Course of the Heart

  • Auteur: M. John Harrison (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1990
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Serpent’s Tail Classics
  • Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1990 van M. John Harrison

The strange edges of reality are explored in M John Harrison’s extraordinary cult classic, now with an introduction by bestselling author Julia Armfield.

On a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded memories bind them together. Unable to move on, Pam Stuyvesant has epilepsy and is plagued by sensual visions. Her husband Lucas believes that a dwarfish creature is stalking him, and invents histories to soothe Pam’s fears. Self-styled Sorcerer Yaxley becomes obsessed with a terrifyingly transcendent reality. The narrator is seemingly the least effected participant in the ritual: he is haunted by the smell of roses, and his guilt as he attempts to help his friends escape the torment that has engulfed their lives.

Michael John Harrison is born on 26 july 1945 in Rugby, Warwickshire, Engeland. He is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing) and the Goldsmiths Prize (The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again). He lives in Shropshire.

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Benjamin Wood – Seascraper

Benjamin Wood Seascraper review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Viking de nieuwe roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Benjamin Wood. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Benjamin Wood Seascraper review en recensie

  • “A quiet, unassuming book about honest work and modest dreams, about sons and their duty, and those brief, wonderful moments when we glimpse the possibility of living a different life. Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written.” (Douglas Stuart)
  • “Wood is up there with the very best… he packs more poetry into his opening paragraph than many a Booker-winner achieves in their entire oeuvre.” (Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times)
  • “Seascraper shimmers, salt-flecked and rippling. It swells with tense, memorable moments… poignant, authentic and hopeful.” (Spectator)
  • “Seascraper seems, at first, to be a beautifully described account of the working day of a young man, Thomas Flett, who works as a shanker in a north of England coastal town, scraping the Irish Sea shore for scrimps. And it is that: the details of the job and the physicality of the labour are wonderfully captured by Benjamin Wood. But this novel becomes much more than that. It’s a book about dreams, an exploration of class and family, a celebration of the power and the glory of music, a challenge to the limits of literary realism, and – stunningly – a love story.” (Booker Prize 2025 Jury)

Benjamin Wood Seascraper

Seascraper

  • Auteur: Benjamin Wood (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Viking
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Benjamin Wood

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp, spending the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street, and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream.

When a striking visitor turns up, bringing the promise of Hollywood glamour, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. But how much of what the American claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas?

Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in Merseyside. Seascraper is his fifth novel. his previous works have been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award ,the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2014, he won France’s Prix du Roman Fnac. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College, London, and lives in Surrey with his wife and sons.

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Andrew Miller – The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over de strenge winter van 1962 van de Engelse schrijver. Op 24 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Sceptre de nieuwe roman van schrijver Andrew Miller. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter review en recensie

  • “In the depths of Britain’s coldest winter, two neighbouring women forge a friendship in the countryside. It’s 1962 and they have both just become pregnant. Around them, the men are struggling: maimed by father figures, haunted by the past, hampered by the destructiveness of their own desires. As a winter storm wreaks havoc on their lives, these characters become pivotal figures in a community precariously balanced between history and future: between the damage wrought by the war and the freedom for women that lies ahead. In beautifully atmospheric prose, Andrew Miller brings suspense and mystery to this seemingly inconsequential chapter in British history.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “This is a quiet book about quiet lives, but the delicate attention Miller affords his characters’ inner lives makes for incredibly satisfying reading.” (Lucy Scholes, Financial Times)
  • “The Land in Winter is a brilliant novel, but wrap your emotions up tight because Miller steers it expertly towards a desolate, distressing ending.” (Martin Chilton, Independent)
  • “Psychologically acute… For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives… grippin.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter

The Land in Winter

  • Auteur: Andrew Miller (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Sceptre
  • Verschijnt: 24 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Winnaar Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025
  • Winnaar Winston Graham Historcial Prize 2025
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Andrew Miller over de winter van 1962

December 1962, The West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering.

But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.

Where do you hide when you can’t leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?

Andrew Miller was born in 1974 in Bristol, Engeland. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm’s Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. Andrew Miller’s novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.

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Jonathan Buckley – One Boat

Jonathan Buckley One Boat review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman. Op 13 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Fitzcarraldo Editons de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Buckley. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jonathan Buckley One Boat review en recensie

  • “A strange, sly and self-assured novel, in which both nothing and everything happens…. There is a great deal of freight on board One Boat, but it packs so neatly into 168 pages that it never feels overburdened. This is a novel to be returned to as a place in which to think, just as Teresa returns to her Greek town.” (Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “Teresa’s story emerges in non-linear fragments of reminiscence and notebook scribbles…. An understated story about selfhood emerges from the flotsam of memories and jottings. When Buckley at last pulls back the metafictional curtain in the book’s final pages, he formalizes his narrator’s driftings and draftings. What seems at first a set of disparate, unpolished vignettes proves to be a masterfully unified conceit.” (Rachel Armitage, Literary Review)
  • “Following the death of her father, Teresa returns to the small coastal town in Greece she first visited when her mother died nearly a decade before. From this scenario, tacking between the events of the second trip and memories of the first, Buckley creates a novel of quiet brilliance and sly humour, packed with mystery and indeterminacy. The way in which the book interleaves Teresa’s relationship to her mother, her involvement in an amateur murder investigation, and an account of a love affair, raises questions about grief, obsession, personhood and human connectivity we found to be as stimulating as they are complex.” (Booker Prize 2025 Jury)

Jonathan Buckley One Boat

One Boat

  • Auteur: Jonathan Buckley (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Verschijnt: 13 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 168 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99 / £ 7,99
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Benjamin Wood

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly – her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew.

Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John’s; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are.

Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.

Jonathan Buckley is born in 1956 in Birmingham. He is a writer and editor now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel.

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Ben Markovitz – The Rest of Our Lives

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de in Texas geboren Britse schrijver. Op 27 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de nieuwe roman van schrijver Benjamin Markovitz. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review en recensie

  • “When Tom Layward’s wife cheated on him, he stayed for the children but promised to leave when his youngest turned eighteen. Twelve years later, Tom drops his daughter off at college, but instead of driving back to New York he heads west. What follows is a remarkably satisfying road trip full of strangers, friends, and self-discovery. It’s clear author Ben Markovits has spent time teaching. This novel speaks like a much-loved professor, one whose classes have a terribly long waitlist. It’s matter of fact, effortlessly warm, and it uses the smallest parts of human behaviour to uphold bigger themes, like mortality, sickness, and love. The Rest of Our Lives is a novel of sincerity and precision. We found it difficult to put it down.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “We all fear irrelevance as technology and society outpace us, and as the young outgrow us. Yet, reading Ben Markovits’s gentle, powerful and funny novel, we are reminded that family love can ground us and keep us together.” (Philip Womack, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “The Rest of Our Lives is another quiet triumph, an elegant, devastating book that lays bare the way time calcifies our failures, how we find ourselves trapped not by circumstance but by the slow erosion of the will to escape. Markovits has long been one of our most under-appreciated novelists; this is yet more proof that he deserves far greater recognition.” (Alex Preston, Guardian)

Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of Our Lives

  • Auteur: Ben Markovitz (Engeland, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Verschijnt: 27 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Ben Markovitz

When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, the synopsis reads, ‘he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife.

So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son – en route, maybe, to his father’s grave in California. Pitch perfect, quietly exhilarating and moving, The Rest of Our Lives is a novel about family, marriage and those moments which may come to define us.

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. His novels include Either Side of Winter, You Don’t Have to Live Like This, Christmas in Austin, and, most recently, The Sidekick. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and the New York Times, among others. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Winnie de Poeh De kleine dingen in het leven

Winnie de Poeh De kleine dingen in het leven recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek met reflecties uit het Honderd Bunderbos. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Rubinstein ter gelegenheid van 100 jaar Winnie de Poeh, dit boek van Catherine Hapka over het gedachtengoed van schrijver A.A. Milne met reflecties uit het Honderd Bunderbos.

Winnie de Poeh De kleine dingen in het leven recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Winnie de Poeh, De kleine dingen in het leven, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Winnie de Poeh De kleine dingen in het leven

Winnie de Poeh

De kleine dingen in het leven

  • Auteur: Catherine Hapka (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: kinderboek, levenskunstboek
  • Illustraties: Mike Wall
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Bette Westera
  • Uitgever: Rubinstein
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Prijs: 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het Winnie de Poeh boek met reflecties uit het Honderd Bunderbos

Volg Winnie de Poeh terwijl hij door zijn dag wandelt en ontdekt hoe de schoonheid van de natuur, de momenten met zijn vrienden en de vreugde van een druppel honing verwondering en dankbaarheid kunnen oproepen. Dit prachtig geïllustreerde boek voor jong en oud is een aanmoediging om na te denken over hoe de kleine dingen in het leven geluk kunnen brengen.

Het boek is vertaald door Bette Westera en samengesteld door Catherine Hapka. De illustraties zijn van Mike Wall.

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Kasim Ali – Who Will Remain

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijver uit Birmingham. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij 4th Estate de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijver Kasim Ali. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain review en recensie

  • “One of the most gripping novels I’ve read in a long time.” (Samira Ahmed, BBC Radio 4)
  • “An unflinching meditation on fractured loyalties … Reminiscent of the great modernists, Ali has written a quietly seething novel.”  (Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive)

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain

Who Will Remain

  • Auteur: Kasim Ali (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman over Birmingham
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: 4th Estate
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Birmingham van Kasim Ali

A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door.

Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed to keep his head down, worked hard and stayed out of trouble … until now.

When Saqib is killed in a gang fight and Bilal announces his engagement, Amir suddenly loses the two men who keep him grounded. Amir’s university grades are collapsing, he’s running out of money, and pressure mounts from every direction. As tensions flare, the friends left around him start to draw Amir into their more dangerous pursuits, and the family ties that have bound him so completely begin to unravel. Amir decides he only has himself to rely on and must take his future into his own hands.

This is a blistering story of social expectations and social condemnation, of dead ends and divided loyalties, and of what’s left behind when you have nothing left to lose.

Kasim Ali was born and raised in Alum Rock, Birmingham. He is the author of the debut novel Good Intentions, has written fiction for BBC Radio 4 and has a column at The Bookseller. His short fiction has been longlisted for the 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Short Story Prize, and Good Intentions was shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize. He works as an editor in publishing and now lives in London.

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Laurie Lee – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de memoir over zijn vroege leven in Gloucestershire na de Eerste Wereldoorlog en in het vervolg verlaat Lee de veiligheid van Slad, zijn Cotswold-dorp, om op reis te gaan naar Spanje. 

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review en recensie

  • “He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour.” (Sunday Times)
  • “There’s a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down.” (New Statesman)

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Summer

  • Auteur: Laurie Lee (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir uit 1969
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 3,99 / £ 13,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver Laurie Lee

“The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.”

Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for ‘Will you please give me a glass of water?’, he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations.

Laurie Lee was born on 24 Juni 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire in Engeland. Hehas written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. He died on 13 May 1997 is Slad, Gloucestershire, aged 82. He published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can’t Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).

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Toby Clements – A Good Deliverance

Toby Clements A Good Deliverance review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de Engelse historische roman over Warwick in de 15e eeuw. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de paperback van de historische roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Toby Clements. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Toby Clements A Good Deliverance review en recensie

  • “Clements is so convincing on the detail of his characters” lives that it is difficult to believe that he never walked in the brutal, messy world he conjures up on the page.” (The Times)
  • “Enthralling, honest … the past, here, is imagined with ferocity, with hunger to engage.” (Hilary Mantel)

Toby Clements A Good Deliverance

A Good Deliverance

  • Auteur: Toby Clements (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Verschijnt: 3 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische roman over Warwick in 1468 van Toby Clements

From the author of the Kingmaker series, an epic and intimate tale of adventure, myth and the creation of one of literature’s greatest stories.

Warwick, 1468. One drowsy summer afternoon, Sir Thomas Malory – politician, courtier, outlaw, renowned author of Le Morte D’Arthur – is seized from his garden and dragged to Newgate Prison for reasons unknown.

Shivering in his foul-smelling, filthy old cell, Malory mourns his misspent life as he awaits the execution bell. But when the locking bar lifts, he is greeted by a boy of about twelve winters: the gaoler’s son. Giddy with relief, Malory seizes the opportunity to recount his deeds to an audience.

So begins a prison confession of a perilously exciting life full of sieges, battles and court intrigue. A Good Deliverance is the captivating tale of a man at odds with his past and the events that inspired him to write the first great work of prose fiction in English.

Toby Clements was inspired to write the Kingmaker series having first become obsessed by the Wars of the Roses after a school trip to Tewkesbury Abbey, on the steps of which the Lancastrian claim to the English throne was extinguished in a welter of blood in 1471. Since then he has read everything he can get his hands on and spent long weekends at re-enactment fairs. He has learned to use the longbow and how to fight with the poll axe, how to start a fire with a flint and steel and a shred of baked linen. He has even helped tan a piece of leather (a disgusting experience involving lots of urine and dog faeces). Little by little he became less interested in the dealings of the high and mighty, however colourful and amazing they might have been, and more fascinated by the common folk of the 15th Century: how they lived, loved, fought and died. How tough they were, how resourceful, resilient and clever. As much as anything this book is a hymn to them.

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Paul Heiney – One Man and His Hog

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review, recensie en informatie boek en memoir met het verhaal van een varken genaamd Alice. Op 30 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het nieuwe boek van Paul Heiney de Engelse schrijver, journalist en radiomaker.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van One Man and His Hog, The Story of a Pig Called Alice, geschreven door Paul Heiney, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog

One Man and His Hog

The Story of a Pig Called Alice

  • Auteur: Paul Heiney (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, dierenboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 30 oktober 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst memoir en boek van Paul Heiney over zijn varken

‘To call Alice “just another pig” would be the gravest insult.’

Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney’s best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a ‘large, black and expensive’ Christmas present for his wife to her last days as the matriarch of his traditional farm.

In One Man and His Hog, Heiney walks us through why lop-eared pigs are the best to raise (they can’t see you coming), how to escape a sow that’s decided you’re her next mate (throw a bucket and run), and how, actually, pigs might have just got this whole ‘life’ situation sorted out.

Paul Heiney is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. Most recently he has been the presenter of ITV’s Countrywise, and BBC’s Watchdog. He has been an organic farmer, working his land with heavy horses, this experience forming the basis of his long-running column in The Times. He is also the author of several best-selling books, including Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?

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