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The Devil All the Time
2024 || Paperback || Donald Ray Pollock || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson
A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.
In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O'Connor at her most haunting.
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre...
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On Beauty
2024 || Paperback || Zadie Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Glorious. Wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed... that rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining' New York TimesWHY DO WE FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE WE DO?WHY DO WE VISIT OUR MISTAKES ON OUR CHILDREN?WHAT MAKES LIFE TRULY BEAUTIFUL?Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks...
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Pond
2024 || Paperback || Claire-Louise Bennett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New York Times Book Review
"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." -O, the Oprah Magazine
Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captu...
Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
2024 || Paperback || John Irving || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in T...
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Girl Meets Boy
2024 || Paperback || Ali Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid's Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both