Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes . . . Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think.

Een verlopen detective ontdekt dat er meer achter een moord zit dan het schijnt.

Satirisch feuilleton over een vreemde wedstrijd waarvan de uitslag bepaalt wie de beste Nederlandstalige schrijver is.

In from the coast of Queensland grow the pineapple plantations and the luxuriant lantana that provide the background of Eleanor Dark's delightfully amusing story, in which she gives us a vivid close-up of the life of a small farming community - Lantana Lane. Based on the community at Montville, Queensland, where the author's family lived on a hobby farm for part of each year in the 1950s.

Clem Ackroyd lives with his parents and grandmother in a claustrophobic home too small to accommodate their larger-than-life characters in the bleak Norlfolk countryside. Clem's life changes irrevocably when he meets Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and experiences first love, in all its pain and glory.