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Schotse roman, Schotse schrijfsters

A.L. Kennedy – Alive in the Merciful Country

A.L. Kennedy Alive in the Merciful Country review, recensie en informatie nieuwe Schotse roman. Op 9 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Saraband de nieuwe roman van de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijfster A.L. Kennedy. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

A.L. Kennedy Alive in the Merciful Country review, recensie en informatie

  • “Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading.” (Sunday Times)
  • “It seems everything [Kennedy] touches turns to art… she continues to impress with her psychological fearlessness and breathtaking affection for language.” (New York Times)

A.L. Kennedy Alive in the Merciful Country

Alive in the Merciful Country

  • Auteur: A.L. Kennedy (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband
  • Verschijnt: 9 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Schotse schrijfster A.L. Kennedy

Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present.

With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.

This is a twisty, heart-racing page-turner and viscerally rendered portrayal of abuse of power by the state, by the police and by the villains much closer to home.

A.L. Kennedy was born 22 October 1967 in Dundee, Scotland. She now divides her time between Scotland and the East Midlands. She has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Award, the Costa Prize, the Heinrich Heine Preis, the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rees Prize. She has twice been included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has written ten novels, one of which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, six short story collections, three books of non-fiction and three books for children. She also performs occasionally in one-person shows and as a stand-up comic.

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Schotse roman, Schotse schrijver

Graeme Macrae Burnet – A Case of Matricide

Graeme Macrae Burnet A Case of Matricide recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Georges Gorski thriller van de Schotse schrijver. Op 3 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Saraband de nieuwe spannende roman van de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijver Graeme Macrae Burnet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Of er een Nederlandse vertaling van de nieuwe roman van Graeme Macrae Burnet verschijnt is nog niet bekend.

Graeme Macrae Burnet A Case of Matricide recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A Case of Matricide, de nieuwe roman van Graeme Macrae Burnet met Georges Gorski in de hoofdrol verschijnt, besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Graeme Macrae Burnet A Case of Matricide

A Case of Matricide

  • Auteur: Graeme Macrae Burnet (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband
  • Verschijnt: 3 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe Georges Gorski van Graeme Macrae Burnet

Chief Inspector Gorski returns… 

In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town’s hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons.

Graeme Macrae Burnet once again pierces the respectable bourgeois façade of small-town life in this, the concluding part of his trilogy of Gorski novels. He injects a wry humour into the tiniest of details and delves into the darkest recesses of his characters’ minds, but above all provides an entertaining, profound and moving read.

Born in Kilmarnock in octobre 1967  Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world. He lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature. After teaching English overseas and working as a researcher in the television industry, he won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and now writes full-time. He is best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted second novel, His Bloody Project, and his fourth novel, Case Study, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Graeme is also the author of a trilogy of French-set detective novels: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014),  The Accident on the A35 (2017), and A Case of Matricide (2024).

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Schotse auteur, Schotse roman, Schotse schrijver

J. David Simons – The Interview

J. David Simons The Interview recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijver. Op 22 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Saraband Books de nieuwe roman van de Schotse schrijver J. David Simons. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

J. David Simons The Interview recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnen van The Interview, de nieuwe roman van de Schotse schrijver J. David Simons, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

J. David Simons The Interview

The Interview

  • Auteur: J. David Simons (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Schotse schrijver J. David Simons

The President is dead. Cal Drummond is hiding out deep in the woods of the American South when he hears the news. Once a famous talk show host, he is now a disgraced man living a solitary existence in a cabin, drinking Jack Daniels, enjoying the cover of the trees, and getting on with life as Hank MacPhearson.

But this news – and the journalist who delivers it – will have consequences that reach far back into Cal’s past. They threaten his new life and identity, but they also throw him one final chance: it was an interview that brought about his downfall, but could it be another one, this time with him in the hotseat, that could bring him back to life?

Taking the reader from Scotland to Mexico and from California to Georgia, The Interview is a novel not only about speaking truth to power, but also about speaking truth to oneself.

J. David Simons (27 augustus 1953, Glasgow, Schotland) is a Scottish author, media journalist and literary editor. His first novel, The Credit Draper, was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize, and his subsequent novels include The Liberation of Celia Kahn (2011), The Land Agent (2014), A Woman of Integrity (2017), The Responsibility of Love (2021), as well as An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful (new edition published in 2023). He has been awarded several bursaries from Creative Scotland and the Society of Authors and in 2012 was the recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.

Simons is also a former lawyer, charity administrator, cotton farmer and university lecturer. His nomadic lifestyle has allowed him to spend considerable time in Israel, Australia, Japan and the United States, and he currently lives in Javea, Spain.

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Culinair, Culinaire boeken

Mike Billett – Peat and Whisky

Mike Billett Peat and Whisky, The Unbreakable Bond recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het whiskyboek. Op 12 oktober 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Saraband het Engelstalige boek Peat and Whistky van de Schotse wetenschapper en schrijver Mike Billett. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar op aangekondigd.

Mike Billett Peat and Whisky recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Peat and Whisky, The Unbreakable Bond. Het boek is geschreven door Mike Billett. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek over whisky geschreven door de Schotse wetenschapper en schrijver Mike Billett.

Mike Billett Peat and Whisky recensie

Peat and Whisky

The Unbreakable Bond

  • Auteur: Mike Billett (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: whiskyboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband
  • Verschijnt: 12 oktober 2023
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 15,15 / € 11,75
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over turf en whisky van Mike Billett

Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond is, as one of the best-known aficionados attests, “among the most important books about whisky ever written.” Part travelogue, part popular science, and a love letter to Scotland’s most famous artisan product, Mike Billett’s account brings together landscapes, geology, ecology, history, people and their whisky, whilst also addressing an important current environmental issue: peatlands and their role in climate change.

The story of peat and its central role in the production and flavour of whisky is engagingly related through the author’s journey around Scotland and into its past – in ancient peatlands and bogs and the places where whisky has been made for centuries. It sheds light on a country and its history, especially through an oft-misunderstood component of the production of whisky. It looks back to a golden age of peat and whisky, as well as forward to a more challenging future.

As our natural resources and landscapes are increasingly contested, this is the essential read for all whisky lovers.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, Faeröer

Donald S. Murray – The Call of the Cormorant

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant Faeröer roman recensie en informatie over de inhoud. Op 11 april 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Sarabant de nieuwe roman van de Britse schrijver Donals S. Murray die zich op Faeröer afspeelt. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de The Call of the Cormorant. Het boek is geschreven door Donald S. Murray. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze Faeröerroman, geschreven door de Engelse schrijver Donald S. Murray.

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant Faeröer roman

The Call of the Cormorant

  • Schrijver: Donald S. Murray (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Faeröer roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband
  • Verschijnt: 11 april 2023
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback

Recensie en waardering van de roman

  • “A powerful novel… A poignant exploration of love, loss and survivor’s guilt.” (Sunday Times)
  • “A moving portrait of a place and its people … a quiet, sad but brilliant novel.” (Times, Book of the Month)
    “Murray is an evocative painter of landscapes and a deeply sympathetic writer… a space for forgotten voices to sound, bearing witness not just to this tragedy, but to the terrible cost of World War I itself.” (Daily Mail)

Flaptekst van de Faeröer roman van Donald S. Murray

From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ‘unreliable biography’ of Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson: an artist and an adventurer, a charlatan and a swindler, forever in search of Atlantis.

As a child in the windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands in the late nineteenth century, Karl Einarsson believes he is special, destined for a life of art and adventure. As soon as he can, he sets out for Copenhagen and beyond, styling himself as the Count of St. Kilda. He’s an observer and citizen of nowhere, a serial swindler of aristocrats and Nazis, fishermen and fops.

But when his adventures find him in 1930s Berlin, he is forced for the first time to reckon with something much bigger than himself. As the Nazis rise to power around him, his wilful ignorance becomes unwitting complicity, even betrayal.

Based on a true story, this is a fantastical tale of island life, of those who leave and those who stay behind, and the many dangers of delusions and false identities.

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