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.

Over de illstraties van de Tolkien-kalenders.

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.

Lewis follows Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, as he launches his latest company, Healtheon. Clark has his next project in mind as well, a computerized yacht that he can sail remotely from anywhere in the world.

Een oudere man wordt gekweld door de herinnering aan een meisje dat hij veertig jaar eerder onheus heeft behandeld.

15 delen poezie van Bilderdijk, drie delen van zijn vrouw en een biografie van de literator door Da Costa.

Klassieke schelmen- en ontwikkelingsroman uit de Duitse barok over de wederwaardigheden van een simpele man tijdens de 30-jarige oorlog (1618-1648).

Navertelling van de klassieke mythe met autobiografische elementen.