THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023 ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer.

And Richard, a shy Englishman,...

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, `The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to M...

Vrijspel van Anna Karolina Caban is een zinderend en verslavend verhaal over de dunne lijn tussen passie en obsessie. 

Olivia de Wilde, gevierd auteur van erotische romans, lijkt op papier het perfecte leven te leiden met een schitterende villa aan de Amstel, een veelbelovende carrière en een verloving met de officier van justitie. Maar haar leven is verre van perfect. Haar boekverkopen dalen, haar inspiratie is opgedroogd, en haar relatie met Stijn is kil en afstandelijk gewo...