Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic. ‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman al...

Lute werkt als kwaliteitsmanager bij een groot farmaciebedrijf op de Veluwe. Het bedrijf wordt overgenomen door een Zwitserse investeerder, die Lutes hele afdeling boventallig verklaart. Een bittere pil voor Lute: hij moet niet alleen tientallen trouwe collega’s weg zien te werken, maar krijgt ook de opdracht ze over te halen zelf ontslag te nemen. Wanneer Lombard, een freelanceheadhunter, zijn diensten aanbiedt, neemt Lute die van harte aan. Lombard zorgt ervoor dat de werknemers een voor ...

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...

Eus is het even bejubelde als omstreden debuut van Özcan Akyol uit 2012: een tragikomisch en schokkend relaas over een jongen die volledig ontheemd door het leven moet en die zich moet zien te ontworstelen aan zijn turbulente jeugd.

Özcan Akyol is columnist (Algemeen Dagblad, de Stentor, Tubantia, De Gelderlander, Brabants Dagblad, Eindhovens Dagblad, PZC, BN/De Stem, de VARAgids en Helden).

Hij is televisie- en radiomaker (De neven van Eus, Onze man in Deventer, Sterren op het Doek).

Maar ...

Louis Couperus

Noodlot

Louis Couperus (1863-1923) wordt door velen beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste schrijvers uit de Nederlandse literatuur. Hij is auteur van een enorm oeuvre van o.a. psychologische romans, historische romans, reisimpressies, etc. Zijn meest bekende, of best overgeleverde, romans zijn de zgn. Haagse romans die als thema het verval van de gegoede bourgeoisie hebben. Een van de belangrijke thema's in Couperus' werk is het noodlot.

De korte fatalistische roman Noodlot ga...

It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens's original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and sc...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next doo...

An "A" for "adultery" marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby's father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester's partner in adultery and force him to share her disgrace.

Masterful in its symboli...