'Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture with all the troubling power of myth or dream. A stunning book' SARAH WATERS'It's the book every writer wishes they'd written' CLARE MACKINTOSH'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' ERIN KELLY***He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. .

. Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife - and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, anxious young woman after a whir...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKE. Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel.

Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding.

There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens.

One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (l...

In dit vierde deel van de Ewout Meyster-cyclus bevindt de drieëntwintigjarige Ewout zich op het landgoed De Hartz. Daar, in het landhuis van de Grote Man, volgt hij colleges en lezingen, gegeven door een internationaal gezelschap van hoogleraren en wetenschappers. Maar vooral is dit deel een terugblik op de periode dat hij als achttien-, negentienjarige bij de door hem hooglijk bewonderde Somsen in de leer was.

Ewout volgt een privéopleiding bij hem – zijn kennismaking met filosofie en p...

De indringende psychologisch-realistische familieroman 'Van oude menschen, de dingen, die voorbij gaan...' is voor het eerst gepubliceerd in afleveringen van 'Groot Nederland' in 1905, de eerste boekuitgave verscheen in 1906. Indertijd werd de roman door de kritiek niet al te enthousiast ontvangen maar heden ten dage wordt de roman gezien als een onbetwist hoogtepunt in het oeuvre van Couperus en staat het hoog genoteerd in de Nederlandse literaire canon.

Louis Couperus (1863-1923) wordt door ...

Op een regenachtige nacht in de Indische bergen slaat het noodlot toe: een jonge man en vrouw begaan een misdaad die hen de rest van hun leven zal achtervolgen… Zestig jaar later in Den Haag volgen we de families van deze twee hoogbejaarde mensen. Hun kleinkinderen zijn van plan met elkaar te trouwen. Weten zij wat er vroeger gebeurd is? Wie kent het geheim? Is de last van het verleden niet te zwaar? Is een gelukkig huwelijk wel mogelijk in deze familie?

Deze spannende familieroman uit 1906...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of th...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where...