Naar aanleiding van haar moeders dood maakte Mensje van Keulen met 'Olifanten op een web' een mengeling van verslag, herinneringen en dagboek. Op intense wijze beschrijft ze de relatie met haar moeder, haar familie en haar verleden. Een universeel verhaal over de onbreekbare band tussen moeder en dochter.Mensje van Keulen werd in 2014 de Constantijn Huygensprijs voor haar hele oeuvre toegekend.

Op zijn negenenvijftigste heeft de schilder Maris Coppoolse een overzichts tentoonstelling in het Stedelijk Museum. De internationale pers schrijft erover, het publiek stroomt toe. Maris staat op het toppunt van zijn roem. In de coverstory van een weekblad wordt de bron van zijn obsessieve werk blootgelegd: een misdaad die hij op zijn veertiende beging. Niemand in zijn omgeving is hiervan op de hoogte. Zijn vrienden en bekenden zijn diep geschokt. Alles begon in een zwart geteerde schuur ...

Nynke ‘Skip’ Nauta is al zeven jaar op zee als het verleden plotseling voor haar neus staat, zomaar, in de jachthaven van Cannes: het echtpaar Zeno en hun briljante puberzoon, Juda. De enthousiaste Zeno’s hebben al eens eerder goed gezorgd voor Skip en ze nodigen haar uit om een zomer door te brengen in hun tuinhuis in Amsterdam.

Schoorvoetend accepteert Skip de uitnodiging en reist terug naar Nederland. Ze treft een stad en een gezin aan waaraan de tijdgeest knaagt. In de overbevolkte, ...

By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.

Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching.

So intimate it seems to be wri...

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attemp...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.

As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killin...

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang commit...

Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature.

Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. 'Clever: very...