From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets

The Black Cat, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in August 1843 and included in the collection Tales by Edgar Allen Poe (1845). The story’s narrator is an animal lover who, as he descends into alcoholism and perverse violence, begins mistreating his wife and his black cat Pluto.

When Pluto attacks him in self-defense one night, he seizes the cat in a fury, cuts out one of its eyes, and hangs it. That night a fire destroys his house, leaving him in ...

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.

Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...

The Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters dee...

Wanneer Alkmaar voor de zoveelste keer wordt aangevallen probeert Katelijne haar brouwerij koste wat kost te beschermen tegen het brute geweld van de West-Friezen. Ze hoopt dat haar geheime liefde, koning Willem II, haar woonplaats kan helpen door Alkmaar stadsrechten te schenken. Ze ziet zich echter voor een heel ander probleem gesteld wanneer ze van hem in verwachting blijkt te zijn…

Koning Willem is verwikkeld in een machtsstrijd met West-Friesland en hij doet er alles aan om dat opstand...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Ha...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024‘A writer at the peak of her powers’ The TelegraphTruth...

Walram luistert met open mond naar de mooie woorden van de preker. Hoe overtuigend klinkt zijn oproep om ten strijde te trekken tegen het bedrog van de priesters. Hij kijkt naar het flikkerende mes in de handen van de beeldenstormers. Als hij met hen op pad trekt, krijgt hij er ook een. Maar thuis beeft moeder van angst voor de bendeleden. En als hij zich bij hen aansluit, zal hij wel nooit het hart van die mooie Jenne veroveren.

"Ketters van de Kemmelberg" speelt zich af in de waanzinnige 16...