From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets

Een droom. Een bloem. Een gevaarlijk geheim.

Cornelis van Baerle wil geen held zijn. Geen politicus. Geen revolutionair. Hij wil maar één ding: de allereerste zwarte tulp ter wereld kweken. Maar in het Nederland van 1672 — een tijd van oorlog, verraad en jaloezie — is zelfs een bloem levensgevaarlijk.

Wanneer Cornelis onterecht wordt opgesloten in de gevangenis, lijkt zijn droom te vergaan. Maar dan is daar Rosa — dapper, slim, en net zo vastberaden als hij. Samen trotseren ze vijand...

The Black Cat, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in August 1843 and included in the collection Tales by Edgar Allen Poe (1845). The story’s narrator is an animal lover who, as he descends into alcoholism and perverse violence, begins mistreating his wife and his black cat Pluto.

When Pluto attacks him in self-defense one night, he seizes the cat in a fury, cuts out one of its eyes, and hangs it. That night a fire destroys his house, leaving him in ...

They say life is all about choices; that our choices, whether easy or difficult, shape the journey ahead. But what if for every path we choose, another possibility unfolds in a parallel universe?

Roya is a work of historical fiction, telling the story of a young Iranian woman living in a parallel universe, one in which the Iranian Revolution of 1979 did not happen and the Islamic Republic was not established. In this alternate reality, the ayatollahs never rose to power and Iran follows a dif...

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.

Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...

Wanneer Alkmaar voor de zoveelste keer wordt aangevallen probeert Katelijne haar brouwerij koste wat kost te beschermen tegen het brute geweld van de West-Friezen. Ze hoopt dat haar geheime liefde, koning Willem II, haar woonplaats kan helpen door Alkmaar stadsrechten te schenken. Ze ziet zich echter voor een heel ander probleem gesteld wanneer ze van hem in verwachting blijkt te zijn…

Koning Willem is verwikkeld in een machtsstrijd met West-Friesland en hij doet er alles aan om dat opstand...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Ha...

Jeremiah Handown and his three sons Frederik, Johann and Ludwig are shipwrecked alone on an undiscovered desert island - but surviving is only the beginning of the story. When they are captured by Arab pirates, how will they undergo being separated, sold as slaves and dragged into the depths of unexplored African deserts and jungles? But even that is only half of the story, Separately, Jeremiah and the oldest two sons, and Ludwig the youngest, make a strange discovery that leads them on the t...

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024‘A writer at the peak of her powers’ The TelegraphTruth...

Ein ehrgeiziger Kaufmannssohn, eine verbotene Liebe und der erbitterte Kampf zweier rivalisierender Handelsmächte

1593. Die Hanse kämpft um ihr Überleben, misstrauisch beäugen die Kaufleute Lübecks den Aufstieg des rivalisierenden Amsterdam. Der junge Arjen, unehelich in eine Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie geboren und voller Neugier auf die weite Welt, macht sich auf, um in der niederländischen Metropole das Glück zu finden. Dank seinem Geschäftssinn erarbeitet er sich schnell Reichtum un...