Lijmen en Het Been behoren tot de canon van de Nederlandse literatuur – en bovendien tot de geestigste boeken die er ooit zijn geschreven.

‘Nu ja, lijmen. De mensen bepraten en dan doen tekenen. En als zij getekend hebben, krijgen zij het ook werkelijk thuis.’ Zo probeert Boorman, de hoofdpersoon, zijn nieuwe assistent in te wijden in het vak dat hij bij uitstek beheerst: lijmen. Boorman heeft Laarmans van de straat opgepikt en maakt hem van de ene op de andere dag medeplichtig. Zijn W...

De langverwachte nieuwe roman van Joost de Vries, een hoogtepunt in zijn oeuvre.

De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een sociaal ambitieuze ambtenaar, geslepen, schijnbaar stoïcijns. Zij is een schrijver in de dop, uitbundig, avontuurlijk, onverslaanbaar bijdehand. Niets hebben ze met elkaar gemeen – behalve dan dat ze niet kunnen ophouden aan elkaar te denken.

Wat volgt is een affaire die door de decennia brandt en zich in geheime kamer...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of ba...

Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.

'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 ...

At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes.

A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery.

As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her...

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