'De consequenties' van Niña Weijers gaat over Minnie Panis, ooit een piepkleine couveusebaby en ternauwernood levensvatbaar verklaard, en nu een gevierde jonge kunstenares. Met haar eigen leven als basismateriaal maakt ze van de werkelijkheid een laboratorium. Ze staat aan de vooravond van een experiment dat wel eens het hoogtepunt van haar oeuvre kan worden, wanneer het verleden zich aandient in de vorm van een brief en een serie eigenaardige déjà vu's. Hoe ver kan ze de realiteit manipul...

Sam, thuis Samir genoemd, is aangenomen op een elitair lyceum. Zijn broer - die in de zware criminaliteit zit - laat hem een belofte afleggen: Sam moet als enige in de familie zijn vwo-diploma halen. Terwijl vooroordelen, sluimerende criminaliteit en het onbegrip van zijn familie hem blijven achtervolgen, ontvouwt zich een coming of age-verhaal vol drama, humor en seks.

De belofte van Pisa, de debuutroman van Mano Bouzamour (1991), stond enige tijd in de bestseller top 60 en de film-, theater-...

Het diner

Herman Koch, auteur van het Boekenweekgeschenk 2017, brak wereldwijd door met Het diner. Twee echtparen gaan uit eten. Ze praten over alledaagse dingen, maar vermijden waar het eigenlijk om draait: hun kinderen. Er ontspint zich een bloedstollend verhaal dat zich binnen de tijdspanne van een avond voltrekt.

‘De beste Nederlandse roman die ik in maanden heb gelezen.’ – Pieter Steinz in NRC Handelsblad

‘Een grensverleggend, intelligent geschreven en belangrijk boek.’ – No...

'A modern classic.' Guardian'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol OatesSylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century. I was supposed to be having the time of my life .

. . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future.

Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal...

'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of ...

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explore...

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century. 'An amazing writer ...

If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-m...

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...