Heerlijke feelgoodroman van een groot nieuw talent van eigen bodem!

Wanneer de 23-jarige Mia de kans krijgt om als nanny in Rome te gaan werken, grijpt ze deze met beide handen aan. Het leven bij de Italiaanse filmster Vanessa, regisseur Luca en hun twee zoontjes klinkt als een droom. Maar de realiteit blijkt anders: hysterische woedeaanvallen, ongeschreven schoolpleinwetten en torenhoge taalbarrières…

Mia probeert de harten van kleuter Leo en tiener Tommaso te veroveren en hen on...

In ‘Baltische zielen’ schetst schrijver Jan Brokken aan de hand van uiteenlopende levensverhalen de woelige historie van Letland, Estland en Litouwen. Het boek geeft een onthutsend beeld van de twintigste eeuw, met al zijn illusies, desillusies, doctrinaire twisten en waanzinnige moordlust. Reizend door het heden, door jonge, trotse, onafhankelijke landen, ziet Brokken schimmen uit het verleden opdoemen. Hij laat zien hoe afschuwelijk maar ook hoe bijzonder mensen kunnen zijn. In geen van...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of ba...

A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery.

As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her...

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.

Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.

'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of ...

At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both blac...