Susan Minot's eagerly anticipated short story collection, in which she returns to doing what she apparently does best, describing that place where lives interact, where human beings try to love one another.--Philadelphia Inquirer.

A panoramic historical novel set in the seventeenth century follows a young aristocrat who goes to sea to find love and an old Jesuit with a boundless scientific knowledge

De verhouding tussen een jonge Vlaming en een Italiaanse vrouw getekend tegen het decor van een mondaine filmwereld, illustreert de onzekerheid en de eenzaamheid van de moderne mens.

Beknopt overzicht van de rol die humor kan spelen in de christelijke geloofsbeleving.

In I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of blots, cogs and bearings that rings his bell. In fact, he's scoured the length and breadth of the land, plunged into the oceans and taken to the skies in search of machines with that elusive certain something. And along the way he's discovered: âe¢ The safest place to be in the event of nuclear war âe¢ Who would win if Superman, James Bond and The Terminator had a fight âe¢ The stupidest person he's ever met âe¢ What an old Cornish institution called Arthur has to do with 0898 chat lines âe¢ And how jean-Claude Van Damme might get eaten by a lion In I Know You Got Soul: Machines with a Certain Something, Jeremy Clarkson tells stories of the geniuses, innovators and crackpots who put the ghost in the machine. From Brunel's SS Great Britain to the awesome Blackbird spy-plane and from the woeful - but inspiring - Graf Zeppelin to Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, they can't help but love them in return. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: 'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars, current affairs and anything else that annoys him in his sharp and funny collections. Born To Be Riled, Clarkson On Cars, Don't Stop Me Now, Driven To Distraction, Round the Bend and Motorworld are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App iClarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store. Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun and the Sunday Times. Today he is the tallest person working in British television, and is the presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear.

Een Afghaanse vluchteling in de Verenigde Staten wordt geconfronteerd met het verleden toen hij als kind een hechte band had met de zoon van zijn huisbediende, totdat een gruwelijk voorval hen voorgoed uit elkaar dreef.

Tijdens een fietstocht door Zweden in 1941 noemen twee 17-jarige vriendinnen zich de Daisy Sisters en dromen van een opwindend leven, maar de dromen worden ruw verstoord.