Tyn gaat op zoek naar het enige familielid dat hij nog heeft: zijn halfzusje Obaa. Alles wat hij over haar weet is dat ze in een dorp aan de Afrikaanse Slavenkust woont. Ze is door zijn vader verwekt bij een Afrikaanse slavin. Tyn wordt scheepsjongen op een schip dat naar Afrika vaart om slaven in te kopen, en weet het dorp te vinden.

Maar Obaa is verjaagd naar het binnenland en moet zich daar verdedigen tegen woedende krijgers, sluwe tovenaars en wrede slavenhandelaren. Vinden Tyn en Obaa e...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .

HÃ¥kan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl. Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . .

. A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child.

Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's ...

'This was where her dreams drifted to if she didn't blot her nights out with drink; this was where her thoughts settled if she didn't fill her days with chat. She remembered this tiny, remote foreign village on a molecular level and the sight of it soaked into her like water into sand, because this was where her old life had ended and her new one had begun.'Portobello - home to the world-famous street market, Notting Hill Carnival and Clem Alderton. She's the queen of the scene, the girl ever...

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, `The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to M...