Roel is al jarenlang kantoorhouder bij een bank. Hij heeft het mooi voor elkaar: duur huis, zwembad in de tuin, mooie vrouw en twee schatten van kinderen. Maar, hij wordt het slachtoffer van een "tigerkidnapping". Hij misbruikt echter deze overval om zelf geld te stelen uit zijn eigen bankkantoor. Roel onderschat de gevolgen hiervan volledig, en raakt verstikt in een web, waar hij niet meer uit lijkt te geraken.

Modern sprookje over twee heel verschillende jonge vrouwen die stage mogen lopen op de bioboerderij van Juffrouw Holle.

Een oudere docent raakt in de kathedraalsbibliotheek in een Engels stadje verwikkeld in een gruwelijke moordzaak met banden naar een onopgeloste moord uit de zestiende eeuw.

Top-100 van door middelbare scholieren in 1989 op hun literatuurlijsten geplaatste werken uit de Nederlandse letterkunde; over dertig daarvan wordt nadere informatie gegeven.

It's 1975. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's Sylvia Cushman, a 45-year-old housewife, who loves driving alone through the desert. They odyssey through western motels and Apache gas stations where Sylvia gives long lectures about Emily Dickinson and drags Bud up into the mesas to search for petroglyphs. After sharing adventures in Detroit, New York, and Amherst, the travelers part... In many ways Let the Dog Drive is an askew detective novel— when a character dies under strange circumstances in Texas, Bud goes to the panhandle to uncover what happened. His strange narration does contain pleasures of the genre: a shootout inside an aquarium; a faked death; another shootout on a chicken farm in Texas...But Let the Dog Drive is also a freewheeling merging of many other genres and concerns-- Hollywood, hardboiled novels of the 1930s, Emily Dickinson's white dress, hallucinatory cacti, The Book of Luke...And dogs.

Een jongen van 19 en een man van 45 beleven hun homoseksuele verhouding als een huwelijk, vooral als een oudere zieke man de rol van kind lijkt te vervullen.

Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him

Arvid has lost his parents and his two younger brothers in a ferry accident. Only he and his brother are left alive. The novel he is writing about his father is stalled, the grief and guilt he feels at having survived are too overwhelming. It is as though Arvid has become dislocated from the flow of life. His only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbour, and a woman whom he glimpses in the flat across the street, whose face seems to mirror his own loneliness and loss. Then slowly, the memories begin to return: of his childhood, of his father, of his two younger brothers. He begins to write again. Poignant, restrained, and at times unbearably moving, IN THE WAKE is informed by terrible tragedy, and by man's sense of the beauty of the natural world, at times our only source of solace.

In his highly anticipated new novel, Albom tenderly explores the themes of family, divorce and regrets, and the wish that we could have just one more day with a lost loved one.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter. The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.

Richard and Sara Everton move to Ibarra, Mexico to reopen Richard's grandfather's copper mine and learn that Richard is dying of leukemia

Het woelige leven van een jonge Italiaan tussen rijke oude homoseksuelen, culturele snobs en gedistingeerde dames.

The Dark Room Tells The Stories Of Three Ordinary Germans: Helmut, A Young Photographer In Berlin In The 1930S Who Uses His Craft To Express His Patriotic Fervour; Lore, A Twelve-Year-Old Girl Who In 1945 Guides Her Young Siblings Across A Devastated Germany After Her Nazi Parents Are Seized By The Allies; And, Fifty Years Later, Micha, A Young Teacher Obsessed With What His Loving Grandfather Did In The War, Struggling To Deal With The Past Of His Family And His Country.

In Mayfair in 1909, Mary Mizen, fresh from the country, is loosed on the lives of three people—wealthy, debauched Quintin Lavery, fiery young artist Leo de Morgan, and ethereal aristocrat Sibell Gifford. Their destinies are bound together until conflict threatens to destroy hopes of happiness.

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An Italian Jew seeks solace for his sense of estrangement in death

The German occupation breaks up a harmonious community of Russian Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians and turns it into a ghetto that almost none survive

A group of women negotiate around the births, deaths, dramas and disappointments that litter their lives, but slowly and surely they begin to discover their real selves