Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004 Winner of the Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies... Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In...
The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation detest everything the family stand for – not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole...
Two young people meet in South East London. Both are Black British, both are artists, both are trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively,...
Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819–92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in...
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--to arrange the...
Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this, she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with...
For more than fifty years, Jip and Janneke have been the Netherlands favourite and most famous preschoolers. They are best friends who play together, argue, get into mischief and eat too...
A new edition of the inventive, prize-winning novel, tying in with a new film adaptation. The movie will star Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent. 'An...
The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and...
Winner Booker Prize 2021! In this masterful new fiction, twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. The characterisations are...
Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric...
As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams,...
The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's "pension" in the shabby rue d'Armaille promises a "first-class family boarding house" and "modern conveniences". One thing is certain:...
The highly acclaimed Booker-shortlisted novel from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In this extraordinary third novel, Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre...
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.'Following the discovery of the body of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat...
For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World War
It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all...
Annie M.G. Schmidt is a household name in the Netherlands, where almost everyone can sing at least one of her songs or recite a couple of lines of her poetry. The jury of the Hans Christian...
For the first time in his life, Jacob RECKLESS is afraid. For years he's stolen across to another world. A dark enchanted place he's loved for its treasure, secrets and danger
I never have been in love;it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.Emma Woodhouse is certain of one thing: that she's an excellent matchmaker . even though she's never...
"Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by...
A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life.
Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity...
Amsterdam bezwijkt onder het toerisme, maar daar is nu iets nieuws en verrassends op bedacht. Bezoek niet de geijkte hoogtepunten die in elk gidsje te vinden zijn, maar word onderdeel van de...
A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the sav
Two stories about Scrumple and her little dog Splotch. Everything gets dirty when these two are together, including themselves! That is why they need a bath. A bath full of foam… Classic...
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
'He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was...
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled...
At only thirteen years old, Theo Boone dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected when he is d
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon is back with a new and utterly unique romance.
Evie is disillusioned about love ever...
Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and...
A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s.A...
China's development over the centuries has purposely diverged from that of the West in term of language, philosophy, and history, and for many decades its nationalism created a form of...
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to...
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Het populairste boek van Fiep Westendorp is nu ook beschikbaar in het Engels! Een perfect cadeau om anderstaligen kennis te laten maken met een van de bekendste Nederlandse illustratoren. Óf...
