Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.

As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killin...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang commit...

Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature.

Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. 'Clever: very...

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Now a major motion picture starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman.Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charli...

Winnaar van de Anton Wachterprijs 2022 voor het beste literaire debuut

Winnaar van het Beste Boek voor Jongeren 2021

Winnaar van de Hebban Debuutprijs 2021

Shortlisted voor de Libris Literatuurprijs 2021 & de Bronzen Uil 2021

De zestienjarige Salomé Atabong zit vast in een jeugddetentiecentrum, omdat ze op een middag twee schoolgenoten ernstig heeft mishandeld. Ze probeert haar hoofd koel te houden tussen de andere meiden, irritante psychologen en treiterende begeleiders. Over een maand mag ...

Stel: je bent zestien going-on zeventien en bent net begonnen aan de vijfde klas gymnasium. Samen met negentien andere leerlingen zit je in één klas. Maar dat is nog niet alles: één van je docenten is een beetje een gestoord wijf – ook al denk ik dat we het er allemaal over eens kunnen zijn dat alle docenten ergens een stekkertje los hebben. De vrouw in kwestie is aardig en is goed in het geven van lessen, maar komt af en toe met de meest debiele plannen aanzetten.

Ook dit jaar heeft ze...

THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023 ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer.

And Richard, a shy Englishman,...

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great...

Mystiek lichaam beschrijft een jaar uit het leven van het gebroken gezin Gijselhart, dat model staat voor de Nederlandse samenleving aan het eind van de twintigste eeuw. Vader Gijselhart, een bejaarde weduwnaar, is belust op geld en macht over zijn naaste omgeving. Dochter Magda, alias Prul, kiest voor het bewust ongehuwde moederschap, maar zal zich ten slotte alsnog verenigen met de joodse vader van haar kind. Zoon Leendert, die in New York in kunst handelde, keert als aidspatiënt terug in ...