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E.C.R. Lorac – Still Waters

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters review, recensie en informatie Lake District detective uit 1949 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 10 december 2025 verschijnt bij British Library Publishing de heruitgave van de thriller van E.C.R. Lorac, de uit Engeland afkomstige detectiveschrijfster. Het is deel 32 in de reeks boeken met Chief Inspector MacDonald van Scotland Yard in de hoofdrol. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Still Waters, hoofdinspecteur MacDonald detective van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster E.C.R. Lorac, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters

Still Waters

A Lake District Mystery

  • Auteur: E.C.R. Lorac (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse detective
  • Eerste editie: 1949
  • Uitgever: British Library Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Lake District detective uit 1949 van E.C.R. Lorac

A rare 1950s classic from E. C. R. Lorac’s beloved Inspector Robert Macdonald series, following on from Theft of the Iron Dogs and Fell Murder. Featuring the author’s authentic depiction of her lake district home in Lunesdale, Lancashire. An atmospheric mystery full of memorable characters and period charm.

Trouble is brewing once more for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. The treacherous slopes and still waters of a quarry pool have become the backdrop for strange happenings by night, and after an architect surveying the area is nearly hoisted into the cold waters by an unseen assailant, the suspicions of local farmers become a matter for the CID. Lorac’s authentic writing of the Lunesdale countryside is paired with a twisting plot in this classic of lake district crime fiction, first published in 1949.

E.C.R. Lorac is the pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett who was born E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters English Lake District Detective from 1949 first editionon 6 May 1894 in Hendon, Middlesex, England. She is one of the writers of the golden age of detective fiction and wrote numirous detective novels. She publishe her first crime novel The Murder on the Burrows in 1931. Most of her nvels are about Chief Inspector MacDonald van Scotland Yard. About ten of them are reissued as British Library Crime Classic. She died on 2 July 1958 in the age of 64 at the Caton Green Nursing Home, in Caton-with-Littledale, near Lancaster.

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Lucy Gannon – The Amazingly Astonishing Story

Lucy Gannon The Amazingly Astonishing Story recensie en informatie over dit boek met jeugdherinnering. Op 21 oktober 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Seren Books dit nieuwe autobiografische boek van de Engelse toneelschrijfster Lucy Gannon.

Lucy Gannon The Amazingly Astonishing Story Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van The Amazingly Astonishing Story. Het boek is geschreven door Lucy Gannon. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek met jeugdherinneringen van de Engelse schrijfster Lucy Gannon.

Lucy Gannon The Amazingly Astonishing Story

The Amazingly Astonishing Story

  • Schrijfster: Lucy Gannon (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: jeugdherinneringen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Seren Books
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2020
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Flaptekst van het boek met jeugdherinneringen van Lucy Gannon

By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is Lucy Gannon’s childhood memoir, a frank and surprising look into a child’s tumultuous mind. A soldier’s daughter, Lucy lived in many places but after the death of her mother when Lucy was six, she was lodged with relatives in Lancashire, taken in only because the Army paid an allowance for her care. Escape beckoned when her father remarried but Lucy and her brothers soon found they had swapped one difficult situation for another. The boys fled into the armed forces leaving Lucy behind, a loathed gooseberry in her father’s second and passionate marriage.

Lucy’s escape was her convent school where, though abysmal at maths, she discovered a flair for writing and in the nuns she found warmth and understanding. Forced to leave home at sixteen, she joined the Women’s Royal Army Corps (‘the only organisation desperate enough to take me on’).

Vividly told, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the fifties and sixties, where dreams and reality seem irreconcilable. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between his daughter and his new wife, her irreverent imagination and stubborn determination to enjoy life , all mean that Lucy Gannon really does have an amazing story (including meeting the Beatles in her school grounds) as she finds her place in the world.

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