Bloemlezing van verhalen van Nederlandse auteurs uit de 19e en 20e eeuw over Italië.

Dimitri Karras and Marcus Clay are old friends, involved in small-time business and drug dealing. But when they cross paths with Wilton Cooper, they enter a world where merciless, unpredictable violence is the only certainty.

Xingjian Gao's novel moves between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution insanities in the China of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the tentative, limited liberalizations of the 1980s and 1990s.

Berlin 1920. A young woman throws herself from a bridge into the Landwehr Canal, intent on suicide. But she is saved. She refuses to give any clue to her identity. She is literally a nobody. After two years of silence, she claims to be Anastasia, the fourth daughter of the Tsar of Russia. For over sixty years she lives with the firm conviction that she is, indeed, a grand duchess. It is only after her death in 1984 that DNA tests establish that the woman could not have been a Romanov. Who, then, was this mysterious woman, who lived a lie and convinced so many others of her fictional identity? And what of her own identity that she drowned that winter's night in Berlin? In The Pretender, Mary Morrissy writes the prequel to the Anastasia myth. She creates a fictional history for Franziska Schanzkowska, the Polish factory worker who so successfully donned the mantle of the doomed princess. From the few facts that are known, Morrissy fashions the biography of a nobody - an impoverished Polish childhood, an adolescence set against the First World war and the ruinous humiliation of Germany in defeat, a young adulthood blighted by violence, trauma and loss. The Pretender is a nesting doll of a book. Morrissy unspools the multiple intricacies of female identity and explores the strategies that women employ to survive in a calamitous world. Was Franziska Schanzkowska a fraud? Was she de

Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence and - most precarious of all - hope. There is mystery, wry humour, sometimes tragedy beneath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years, until, by the end, we have encompassed their lives.

Door het contact met een schizofrene patiënt begint een psychiater ook zelf de greep op de werkelijkheid te verliezen.

Eerste deel over de huizenbouw in het Deense Haderslev en een uitklapbare plattegrond van dit stadje.

Set van twee banden (alleen te koop als set) verschenen t.g.v. de opening van Museum Ludwig, Keulen in 1986 met de highlights in kleur en een bestandscatalogus met afb. in z-w.

Van Alaska tot Zambia, met kleurige foto's en korte toelichtingen.

Met ca. 200 kaarten van de locaties van de oorsprong van de belangrijke religies in de wereld.

Nederlandse vertaling van 'Jezus: the evidence' met z-w en kleurenill.

Met kleurenafbeeldingen van affiches uit de periode 1912-1981.

Over de illstraties van de Tolkien-kalenders.

Here are 101 original and charming solutions to the perpetual one-skein problem. Contributed by yarn shops across the country, there are hats, mittens, scarves, bags, socks, ponchos, baby sweaters, belts, headbands, a cell phone carrier, and even a tea cozy and a set of coasters for the home.

Praktische adviezen voor het vermeerderen van het geluk in het leven en het vergroten van het geluksgevoel.

Journalistiek onderzoek naar leven en carrière van de vastgoedhandelaar Willem Endstra, die betrokken was bij witwaspraktijken van het Amsterdamse criminele circuit en in 2004 werd vermoord.

De strijd tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog op de Atlantische Oceaan, met nadruk op de belevenissen van de betrokken zeelieden.