Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.

Nanoe is dertig geworden. Ze heeft drie jobs, waaronder juf.

Samen met haar lief en een verhuiswagen vol kringwinkelmeubels is ze net verhuisd naar de rand van de stad. Vlees eten doet ze niet, behalve gehaktballen. Ze is bang voor clowns en klimaatopwarming. Ze denkt nogal eens na. Over kinderen en of ze die al dan niet wil, bijvoorbeeld. Maar ook over honden met fluojasjes. Met een azuurblauw potlood in de hand probeert Nanoe het leven beter te begrijpen. In Shit, ik ben al dertig toont ze ...

The million-copy number-one bestseller About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming novel about growing up, staying young, and learning what it means to be responsible.

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History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters.

The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor's toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch.

These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and ...