Nadat haar ouders zijn verongelukt groeit Leda Miller op bij haar oom en tante. Nu ze de veertig nadert, heeft ze haar draai in het leven nog niet gevonden. Als ze op een dag haar jas afstaat aan een vrouw die onwel is geworden en naast haar fiets op de koude straatstenen ligt, ziet ze dat de vrouw sprekend op haar moeder lijkt – als die de leeftijd van zeventig had bereikt. Nadat de vrouw is meegenomen door de ambulance, vindt Leda een sleutel in haar fietstas. Ze achterhaalt het adres en ...

Escribió una historia de espionaje.

Ella quiso vivir una.

Aceptaron el juego. Un juego sin tablero, sin instrucciones y sin salida.

Simularon una misión. Tal vez. Tal vez no.

Lo que empezó como una broma entre un escritor agotado y una mujer al borde de la implosión, pronto se convirtió en una espiral — de un casete VHS, de cartas, de ciudades, de piel, de silencio.

Cádiz, Tánger, Venecia, Scopello: cada lugar una trampa, cada carta un código, cada caricia una posible traición.

Ent...

Bob merkt dat zijn hoogbejaarde moeder bij vlagen haar verleden vergeet. Dat boezemt hem angst in: hij vreest dat ze als zand tussen zijn vingers wegglipt. Maar de verzorgers in het woonzorgcentrum zien dit anders: 'Stop met je paniek!' Hun boodschap: vergeet dementie, onthoud de mens. Stilaan leert Bob haar dementie aanvaarden, met respect en geduld. Iedereen vergeet weleens iets, dat is niet abnormaal. Ze kan nog gelukkig zijn in haar eigen wereld, ook al maakt hij daar geen deel meer van uit.

Vergeet het gaat over liefde, ook als wie je liefhebt langzaam wegkwij...

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...

A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger.

Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...

Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable novel is for anyone who's ever felt not good enough - then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian - half, his mum's side - and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical ...

The true story of the mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny - 'An adult version of LORD OF THE FLIES that is, moreover, entirely true' Evening Standard