Evelyn Roll is als sterverslaggever van de Süddeutsche Zeitung al jaren geobsedeerd door de werking van de hersenen en specifiek het geheugen wanneer een slagader in haar brein scheurt: een aneurysma pericallosa. Het is bijna wonderbaarlijk dat ze het overleeft. Haar interesse in de hersenen lijkt bijna voorbestemd. Want het levensgevaarlijke monster in haar hoofd blijkt herinneringen te hebben blootgelegd waar ze jarenlang niet bij kon. Tijdens de operatie die volgt belooft ze zichzelf dan ...

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck's home. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck's footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest and stumbles across glistening suburbs and boarded-up stores, Mak s...

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.

An investigation onto the patriarchy and how it impacts our day-to-day lives.

Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.

When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help.