A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger.

Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea.

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...

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...

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...

Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable novel is for anyone who's ever felt not good enough - then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian - half, his mum's side - and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical ...

The true story of the mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny - 'An adult version of LORD OF THE FLIES that is, moreover, entirely true' Evening Standard

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...

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 ...

De bijna veertigjarige Eva lijkt alles te hebben: een mooi gezin, een succesvol bedrijf, en binnenkort het huis van haar dromen. Dan sterft haar moeder en beginnen de nachtmerries. Eva wordt steeds angstiger en raakt ervan overtuigd dat er gevaar dreigt voor haar en haar kinderen - langzaam maar zeker verliest ze haar grip op de werkelijkheid.

Ze gaat op zoek naar de oorsprong van haar angsten in haar vroege jeugd en ontdekt hiaten in haar geheugen. Als ze besluit contact op te nemen met haar ...