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Odyssey
2024 || Paperback || Stephen Fry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?
Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
Elsewhere
2024 || Paperback || Yan Ge || Faber and Faber
'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' SARAH HALL
'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN
'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' LUCY CALDWELL
'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'
In her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and an...
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A courtyard full of finds
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
The Shock of the Fall
2024 || Paperback || Nathan Filer || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014
The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
2024 || Hardcover || Cormac McCarthy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet
The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most pr...
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Reducing the ecological footprint
1. The flowing of water 2. Refuge 3. Rural wisdom
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
This is a fantastic tale of how humans and nature can work together to manage the Earth. In this case, it is about water. The story takes place around a small area with a dry wadi, which can turn into a raging torrent during torrential rains.
That is the outer side of the story.
What matters to the collaborating people in this fiction is that nature itself gets a say. Globally, this already happens here and there, but nature’s interests are represented there by humans.
It is called a «Parl...
Odyssey
2024 || Hardcover || Stephen Fry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?
Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
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Come and Get It
2024 || Paperback || Reid Kiley Reid || Veltman Distributie Import Books
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about...
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Oldtimers
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience