In Al dat bloot is er soms te weinig aan serveert Johan Stuyck een pijnlijk elegante cocktail voor diep donkere maar ook voor lichtvoetig dromerige dagen. Cynisch en rauw doopt hij zijn pen in emotie, die hij met zinnen van een verbluffende schoonheid in het rond spat.

Elke vertelling laat je achter met een glimlach, gezucht of indigestie en toch zijn 40 verhalen er soms nog te weinig.

A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many ...

A beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced.

Choose life.

'The best book ever written by man or woma...

Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below

'Beautiful in every aspect'

SARAH MOSS, author of Summerwater

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains a...

“Hij drinkt veel omdat hij vindt dat alles plat is. De wereld, de werkelijkheid, het contact met mij. Martim vindt alles plat. Hij kijkt op het leven neer. Hij zit liever in de hel dan bij mij op de bank.”

Drie mensen die niets met elkaar gemeenschappelijk hebben, behalve hun verslaving, zijn opgenomen is een afkickkliniek en worden daar bij elkaar ingedeeld. Alle drie laten ze mensen ‘achter’. Ouders, broer en zus, echtgenote. Maar er blijken ook onverwachte connecties te zijn.

In de...

This book contains 30 illustrations by B. Reith, made in 1917. Only in 1927 the first illustrated edition of Psyche with drawings by Reith was published in the Netherlands. In 2014 an integral edition of Couperus' fairy tales Psyche and Fidessa was published with all of Reith's illustrations, 75 in total. The illustrations for Couperus fit in with the Art Nouveau style from around the turn of the century. Reith's original drawings are kept in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.

Reith (1894-1974) was a...

'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Toibin

After the collapse of his trial, Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by an empty home. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed, except for one mysterious caller.

This Plague of Souls is a story for these fractured times and the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.

From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century Senegal Paris, 1806.

Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. Who was she? Why, in the course of his long life, has he never spoken of her before? As Adanson's daughter sorts through his things, she discovers a notebook. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young...