After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his disco...

Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men.

Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde...

aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community.

Waar en hoe kun je je geloof beleven? Op vele manieren zoeken christenen naar ervaring en invulling van spiritualiteit. de kerkdienst - de samenkomst - is vanouds een gebeuren waarin dit gestalte krijgt. De liturgie, de orde van de dienst, is daarbij vertolking en leidraad van Woord en geest. In vele gemeenten binnen de zogenaamde gereformeerde gezindte, wordt nog steeds dankbaar gebruikgemaakt van de klassiek gereformeerde opzet van de liturgie zoals die vorm kreeg in de Reformatie.

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