Korte, poëtische, lichtvoetige dierenverhalen met hartverwarmende illustraties over levensvragen die ieder mens weleens

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Hoe weet je of iemand een echte vriend is, wat houdt wezenlijk geluk in en hoe kunnen we weten wat er gebeurt na de dood? In korte, poëtische dierenverhalen schrijft Tiny Fisscher over levensvragen die ieder mens bezighouden. Fisschers lichtvoetige toon maakt dit. tot een feest van herkenning voor iedereen die weleens over het leven, zichzelf en de wereld om z...

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.

Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, these stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories like 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap - and morality tales like 'The Restaurant of Many Orders, where two hunters become hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortal...

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century. 'An amazing writer ...

If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman

Award winning director Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work.

Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work. Recently adapted into a TV series She and Her Cat is a slice of life story of loneliness, sadness and eventually perseverance expressed by a young woman many people can relate to.

On a rainy Spring day, a young woman finds a cat she would come to call Chobi outside and brings him home with her. Chobi falls ...

A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away . . . only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal.

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.

1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed w...

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father a...

Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths.

On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you tu...

Koning Arthur en de ridders van de Ronde Tafel hebben door de eeuwen heen velen geboeid. In dit boek geeft Nelly Montijn-de Fouw (1891-1957) tien van de meest bekende en beste verhalen over die koning en zijn ridders; alle zijn in een boeiende stijl geschreven. Aan elk verhaal gaat een inleiding vooraf, waarin te lezen is over het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling ervan, wat het boek een bijzondere waarde geeft. De tien verhalen gaan over koning Arthur (zijn opkomst en dood); Walewein en de Groene ...

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range

A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski r...