Books

Paperback De mens is een beest, zeiden de koningen. Een zondaar, zeiden de priesters. Een egoïst, zeiden de boekhouders. Al eeuwen is de westerse cultuur doordrongen van het geloof in de verdorvenhei...

Paperback In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Inc...

Hardback Vrij Nederland schreef bijna veertig jaar geleden: ‘Dit is wat Brouwers in Bezonken rood is gelukt: schrijven over het vergankelijke op een onvergankelijke manier.’ En met dat ‘onvergan...

Sarah Bakewell Paperback 448 pages Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue M...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Paperback 400 pages The bestselling novel from the award-winning author ofWe Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. The story of two Nigerians making their way in the...

Bill Bryson Paperback 672 pages The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and...

Hanya Yanagihara Paperback 736 pages The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human end...

Ernest Hemingway Paperback 304 pages In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...