Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her fathers explosive temper and seek refuge at her mothers ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the familys trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joans grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets...

Poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home

One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels, this is an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece

Niet voor het eerst zit er een onbekende jongen langs de kant toe te kijken als Joey en zijn vrienden aan het voetballen zijn op het trapveldje. Joey nodigt hem uit om mee te doen. De jongen, die Adil heet, vertelt dat hij in het asielzoekerscentrum naast het veldje woont. Al snel blijkt dat Adil bijzonder veel talent heeft, maar toch overal buiten de boot valt. Ook veel vrienden van Joey wantrouwen hem. Joey komt steeds meer te weten over Adils maandenlange reis van Syrië naar Nederland. De...

Kees Spiering staat bekend om zijn schitterende jeugdpoëzie in heldere taal. Nu, bijna vijftien jaar na zijn laatste dichtbundel, is er Jij begint: een prachtig verzorgde uitgave met bijzondere illustraties van de jonge, getalenteerde Alette Straathof.

Kees Spiering schrijft over alledaagse en herkenbare dingen, zoals ruzie, liefde, ouders, school, de pijn van het opgroeien en de angst voor de dood. Zijn gedichten zijn minilandschappen van herkenare gevoelens en gebeurtenissen in het leven v...

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.

Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel. For the first time in their lives, Lois and her sister know what it's like to feel scared because of the color of their skin.

And what can Richard Gere, a beautiful librarian, a struggling priest and a foul-mouthed and troubled young man teach Bartholomew about finding love and happiness?Whatever it is, Bartholomew is in for a lot more than he bargained for . . .'The Good Luck of Right Now is original, compelling, and uplifting . . . His writing is shot through with wit and humanity' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project

George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.

Includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Oscar Wilde's life and works. Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait, rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, rea...