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Sylvan Greenfield Seven of Druids 1

Seven of Druids, written by Sylvan Greenberg, read by Daniel, an AI-synthetic voice from Eleven Labs. Obsolete human voice: Andrew Adams. Aaron Bishop, an archaeology student from Oxford, is on a holiday trip with his girlfriend Denise, when they are suddenly transported to a mystical realm. Gifted and cursed at the same time, Aaron has an ancient magic growing inside him. A Voidshaper, a merciless entity born of negativity, assaults Denise and turns her into one of them. Aaron's world shatters....

Engels | 10 uur 37 minuten (460 MB) | Luisterdoc, 's-Gravenhage | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anna Grue The Mystery at the Second-Hand Shop

In a quiet provincial Danish town, something is afoot. The volunteers of the local second-hand shop keep dying. Since they’re all OAP's, the police can’t see the problem. It’s the inevitable – if unfortunate – circle of life. However, resident busy-body, and force-to-be-reckoned-with, Anne-Maj Mortensen is not so sure. She may be newly retired herself, but she still has her wits about her and knows when something needs a little investigating... Scandi crime, but not as you’ve ever seen it before....

Engels | 8 uur 26 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lotte Kirkeby The Reunion

Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated...

Engels | 3 uur 20 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Kiley Dunbar Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop

A fairytale ending isn’t just for fiction... The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months after the winter flood that destroyed all its wares. When newest resident Joy Foley arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl, she is set to drag the Bookshop into the 21st century by virtue of her tech expertise. But Joy has a secret. She is on the run from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere... So when Radia Pearl befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman...

Engels | 10 uur 2 minuten (444 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
A. M. Vedsø Olesen The Seer of Midgard

Snehild is born amidst a raid on a stormy, winter night. She is delivered by a mystical jötunn woman and as she slips into the world, the Norns breathe a prophecy over her. Years later, Himlinge, the royal seat of Sialand, is suffering from political unrest. King Tormod suspects his brother-in-law is plotting against him. Royal advisor Brynjulf Raveneye worries about which of the twin princes should be heir to the throne. The high priestess Ragnfrid grows jealous of the local herbalist who is...

Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (584 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Heather J Fitt Open Your Eyes

Can you see danger when it's right in front of you? When Edinburgh reporter Frankie is assigned a high-profile crime story about a series of sexual assaults, she relishes the prospect of her big break. As she begins uncovering the truth behind women's safety, online trolls known as incels start threatening her very existence. Will Frankie uncover the truth, or will she become the next target? This intense and unsettling thriller about resentment and rage is perfect for fans of Pascal Engman's...

Engels | 8 uur 21 minuten (372 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Lion

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Fate

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...

Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...

Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
H. C. Andersen The Little Mermaid

How much are you willing to sacrifice in the name of love? In the beloved fairy tale ´The Little Mermaid´, Hans Christian Andersen beautifully depicts a mermaid princess' tranquil but tragic life under the sea. Curious about humans, the princess daringly ventures above the surface and finds herself drawn to a human prince. However, being unable to do anything about her growing love for the prince, she eventually seeks help from a mystical sea witch, who changes her life forever - but at what cost?...

Engels | 51 minuten (38 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Carole Hailey The silence project

Fictieve memoires van een dochter over haar moeder die via zwijgen en zelfverbranding een sekte stichtte met talrijke volgelingen over de hele wereld die uiteindelijk een grote en gevaarlijke invloed krijgt.

Fictie

Engels | 362 pagina's | Corvus, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Toni Morrison Tar baby

Een door witte mensen opgevoede zwarte jonge vrouw wordt verliefd op een primitief denkende kleurling, maar hun relatie staat onder druk door de grote verschillen tussen hen beiden.

Fictie

Engels | 305 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Claire Douglas The woman who lied

Een schrijfster maakt in haar eigen leven plotseling allerlei dingen mee die ze eerder in haar thrillers heeft beschreven.

Fictie

Engels | 397 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Firebrand

De zestiende eeuw. Catharine Parr treedt in het huwelijk met Hendrik Vlll en wordt daarmee koningin van Engeland. Ze is inmiddels de zesde vrouw van deze vorst. Haar politieke overtuigingen leiden tot spanningen zowel in haar huwelijk als in het land.

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Film
Andrew Joseph White The spirit bares its teeth

Een 16-jarig meisje heeft het moeilijk met haar vrouwenrol in het Victoriaanse Engeland. Ze kiest voor het bestaan als jongen. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 375 pagina's | Daphne Press, UK | 2024

Gedrukt boek
The Harry Potter wizarding almanac

Almanac met allerlei informatie over de verschillende aspecten van Harry Potters magische wereld. Voor lezers van de beroemde serie.

Non-fictie

Engels | 197 pagina's | Bloomsbury Children's Books, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Yomi Adegoke The list

Ola en Michael willen trouwen. Maar op Twitter verschijnt een lijst met de namen van mannen die vrouwen hebben misbruikt.

Fictie

Engels | 372 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
How to have sex

Drie Britse tienermeiden gaan op vakantie naar Griekenland. Ze drinken, dansen en flirten. De groepsdruk om voor het eerst seks te hebben zet de verhoudingen tussen de meiden op scherp.

Fictie

Film
The color purple

Musical van het verhaal van drie zwarte vrouwen begin 20e eeuw die voor beproevingen staan die alleen overwonnen kunnen worden door hun onverwoestbare band.

Fictie

Film