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A comic series that first appeared in a Dutch newspaper. Every day there were three pictures and accompanying text.

The struggling singer-songwriter of "Musical Affairs", Amelia Aston, has made it. But her success has taken its toll and her life is no longer her own.
Returning to London, she decides to have some of her old-style adventures, including doubling as a call-girl and consummating a childhood crush.

Fresh out of drama school and a bruising relationship with a fellow student, 21-year-old Jenny is delighted to be taken under the wing of sophisticated actress Alexandra. When Jenny discovers Alex is bisexual, she thinks she has found her own true sexuality, until Alex introduces her to Matt.

Full of a sense of wonder, Sara took hold of his slim hips and pulled him towards her, tacitly giving her consent. Never before had consenting to anything seemed so momentous...' Lottery winners Sara and Guy Kingsley live it up in California, where wealth is a passport to decadent pleasure but everything, and everyone, has a price-tag. There Guy pursues sexual freedom, paradoxically discovering he wants to be tied down - though not by marriage! Realising there's no future for them, Sara retreats to Ireland, where handsome, magnetic Liam O'Connor shows her a secret place in the hills and brings her face to face with her dreams. But will Sara find the courage to start a new life of sensual fulfilment with her 'dream warrior'?

When 27-year-old Danni finds herself deserted by her boyfriend but with two weeks holiday to take, she is seized by a fit of daring and joins a summer circus school. Tutored by the flamboyant, Ivan she is soon bareback riding and fire-eating, and is led into unimagined realms of erotic discovery.

Anna Hazel should be having the time of her life: she has just secured two months working on an archaeological dig in Crete with the eminent Dr Adrian Hamilton. But Anna's boyfriend tries to persuade her instead to spend the summer with him in London.

Anna chooses Crete. On the flight out, she is met by her new colleague, Miranda Sharpe, who is rather more interested in men than Minoans. Thus begins the girls' island summer, hosted by the divine Greek Vangelis, supervised by the deep Dr Hamilton, and clouded only by the local raki...

Nathalie Carron is a management consultant specialising in business analysis and investigation. While building up her own company she is frustrated by the lack of romance in her life, but cannot envisage ever having time to find someone. When she meets a new client little does she suspect the turn her love-life will take.

When the editors of two rival magazines are overheard by their boss arguing over whose readers are the more sexually adventurous, he decides to settle things his own way. They are presented with a series of bets—they or their staff must prove their sexual daring in increasingly outrageous ways.

As a present to herself following a promotion, Clare hires a firm of builders to redecorate her house. Aware of the interest of one of the workmen, she succumbs to his advances, finding pleasure in his physical approach to sex. Now she must decide between high living and rough trade.

Since the reign of the Abassid Caliph at Baghdad al-Mutawakil (847-861) more than eleven centuries ago, the discussion about the nature of the Qur'an has been blocked in favour of the Orthodox view that it is the exclusive verbatim Word of God. The human dimension, which includes the language as well as the recipient, is almost absent. This book aims to reopen the debate by rereading the classical material and addressing the present situation of Muslims in the context of the challenges of modernity. The basic question is whether or not Muslims can modernize their societies without disregarding their own belief. The implicit answer is that this is indeed possible once the human dimension of the Qur'an is regarded. So far, Muslims have only been able to rethink Tradition while the question of the Qur'an is untouched. Those who dared to open the question were condemned as heretics, and some of them were executed. Nasr Abu Zayd, Ibn Rushd Professor at the University for Humanistics (Netherlands), delves into the academic adventure of reopening the debate that has been blocked for so long."

Bij Portugal denk je meteen aan de bruisende steden Lissabon en Porto en aan de zonovergoten Algarve. Met langgerekte stranden van fijn zand en een heerlijk klimaat (het is nooit lang achter elkaar te heet) vormt Portugal de ideale bestemming voor zonaanbidders. De gunstige ligging aan de Atlantische Oceaan drukt niet alleen een duidelijke stempel op het weer, maar beïnvloedde ook de geschiedenis. Ooit stak het land Spanje naar de kroon en bevoeren de Portugese ontdekkingsreizigers trots de wereldzeeën. In de steden zijn nog veel schitterende bouwwerken uit deze glorierijke tijd te bewonderen. Naast de 'bekende' attracties zocht én vond Hansmaarten Tromp plaatsen en bezienswaardigheden die zelfs de ervaren Portugalganger zullen verbazen. Zo ligt diep in het achterland in het noordoosten van Minho het befaamde Parque Nacional Peneda-Gerês, met zijn kleurige dorpen en steden met Moorse invloeden. De provincie Trás-os-Montes ('Over de bergen') heeft de grootste gemiddelde hoogte, een woest landschap en een geheel eigen charme. In het hele land is veel van het Portugese volksleven bewaard gebleven, dat vooral tot uiting komt tijdens feesten, processies en jaarmarkten en in de regionale kostuums, dansen en liederen. Uniek is de muziek van de fado, waaruit het typisch Portugese en onvertaalbare 'saudade' weerklinkt.

Fotoboek met een selectie van monumenten in Nederland.

Columns van de bekende journalist (1959-2009) over zijn bezoeken aan Nederlandse dorpen en steden.

Columns over het leven van de schrijver met zijn gezin in een tweede huis in Frankrijk.