Uitzonderlijke journalistiek, gebaseerd op de oorlogsdagboeken uit het NIOD.

Slechts een paar dagen na de bevrijding van ons land begon het NIOD al met het verzamelen van opgetekende herinneringen aan de oorlogsjaren 1940-1945, in dagboeken, brieven en andere persoonlijke documenten.

Opgroeiend in een Amerikaanse familie die de Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft doorstaan, hoorde journalist Nina Siegal nauwelijks iets over haar familiegeschiedenis, laat staan over het bestaan van deze bijzondere collect...

Bekend van TikTok: een eerlijk en herkenbaar boek over depressie. 

Zolang ze zich kunnen herinneren, kampen Mae en Iris met zware depressies. Al hun hele leven stuiten hun hulpvragen op onbegrip. Want iedereen voelt zich toch weleens wat minder? Ze komen toch niets tekort? En stellen ze zich niet een beetje aan?

In Maar je lacht toch nog ruimen Mae Zaal en Iris de With vooroordelen en misverstanden over depressie uit de weg en doorbreken ze de schaamte en taboes. Openhartig vertellen ze ov...

Een hilarisch avontuur over een kat en een konijn die door een betoverd kattenluik gaan.

Dit wordt je nieuwe favoriete duo: Murray en Bun! Murray is een kat. Hij houdt van doezelen, dommelen en dromen. Bun is een konijn, en hij houdt van… álles! Samen zijn ze niet te stoppen!

Soms komt Murrays betoverde kattenluik gewoon uit in de tuin… maar meestal leidt het naar avontuur! Wanneer Murray en Bun door het kattenluik stappen en in het land van de Vikingen terechtkomen, k...

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in the fascinating book that orginally accompanied his journey for the BBC1 series. 'Stephen Fry is a treasure of the British Empire.' - The Guardian Stephen Fry has always loved America, in fact he came very close to being born there.

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From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. 'Makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong’ TELEGRAPH 'Writing of clarity and brilliance' GUARDIAN In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.' Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit.

For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and ma...

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...

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return.

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The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.Migration is shown by many kinds of animals, including butterflies and other insects, mammals, marine turtles and fish, but in none is it as extensively developed as in birds.

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A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever.

In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event went viral, and Tom found himself inundated with theories about what happened. He became obsessed with trying to find out what the whale had been thinking. He wished he could just ask it. In th...