Arlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtzs terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling. the Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad the mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtzs extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling. Conrads Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date. the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Middlemarch prijkt op nummer 21 van de lijst met de beste boeken uit het Engelse taalgebied.  Middlemarch is een van die boeken waardoor je gehypnotiseerd wordt. Er zijn maar weinig romans die zulke intense emoties oproepen. De beroemde dichteres Emily Dickinson schreef erover: 'Wat ik van Middlemarch vind? Wat ik ook vind van eeuwige roem - behalve dan dat in vele passages deze sterfelijke vrouw zich al met onsterfelijkheid heeft bekleed.' In Middlemarch beschrijft George Eliot het leven van een aantal mensen uit de Engelse middenklasse in een provinciestad rond 1830. Ze doet dat met oog voor detail en gevoel voor drama. De individualiteit van haar personages wordt gevangen in hun woordgebruik en haar beeldspraak. De dialogen hebben de levensechtheid van een Oscarwaardig filmscript.

The literary bestseller that redefines both family and narrative for the 21st century, this moving memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

Een onopgeloste moord is nooit een gesloten boek... Harry Bosch wordt gevraagd terug te keren naar de LAPD, en samen met zijn voormalige partner Kizmin Rider wordt hij op Onopgeloste Zaken gezet. De eerste zaak die ze aanpakken, blijkt meteen politiek heel gevoelig te liggen. DNA-onderzoek toont een verband aan tussen een blanke racist en de moord op de zestienjarige Rebecca Verloren in 1988. Waarom was het politieonderzoek destijds zo slordig? Bosch en Rider ontdekken dat corruptie binnen de politie er voor zorgde dat de zaak onopgelost bleef, en ze worden nu bedreigd door degenen die toen de touwtjes in handen hadden. Harry Bosch stort zich met hart en ziel op het onderzoek en Kiz kan hem daarbij nauwelijks afremmen. En dat is pas het begin...

You can?t stop the future.
You can?t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker?his classmate and crush?who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah?s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.

Een Afrikaans meisje wordt met vele andere illegale vluchtelingen op een strand in Zuid-Spanje gezet. Een ambtenaar vraagt naar haar naam en zij antwoordt: 'Tea-Bag.'
Uiteindelijk belandt ze met een valse identiteit in Zweden, waar ze op een avond een lazing bijwoont van Jesper Humlin, een Zweedse dichter die in zijn nadagen is. Na de lezing ontmoeten ze elkaar. Haar verhaal opent een voor hem onbekende wereld

Terug van een reis naar Rome met zijn vader valt Kurt Wallander in de dagelijkse routine van autodiefstallen en inbraken. Totdat ene Holger Eriksson dood wordt aangetroffen, gespiest op negen bamboepalen. Nog twee andere gruwelijke moorden volgen. De moorden zijn zorgvuldig voorbereid en als openbare executies geënsceneerd. De dader lijkt een boodschap te willen uitdragen.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au coeur de la jungle thaïlandaise, les Japonais ont mis au travail des milliers de prisonniers anglais pour construire la voir ferrée Bangkok-Rangoon.
Vivant symbole de la tradition britannique, le colonel Nicholson oppose aux injonctions et aux sévices de ses geôliers une résistance stoïque, jusqu'au jour où ceux-ci consentent à respecter les conventions internationales sur les prisonniers de guerre. Il met ses talents de bâtisseur et de meneur d'hommes au service de l'édification d'un ouvrage d'art d'une importance stratégique capitale pour la rivière Kwaï. Mais les services spéciaux britanniques ont décidé de tout mettre en oeuvre pour faire obstacle à ce projet. La veille de l'inauguration de la voie ferrée, un commando de sabotage est parachutéà proximité du pont. Qui sortira vainqueur de cette lutte où l'idéal humain de "travail bien fait" s'oppose au patriotisme ?
Roman d'aventures, conte philosophique, cette oeuvre d'une rare vérité compte parmi les "classiques" de notre temps. Elle a inspiré l'un des plus grands succès du cinéma, réalisé par David Lean en 1957.

In ‘Hard-boiled Wonderland en het einde van de wereld’ van Haruki Murakami verwerkt een jonge wetenschapper ultrageheime gegevens tot een numerieke code. Als voorbereiding op deze werkzaamheden heeft hij, zonder dat hij zich dat bewust was, een hersenspoeling ondergaan. Wat volgt is een bizarre speurtocht langs wonderlijke figuren en plaatsen in twee verschillende werelden, die uiteindelijk verrassend goed bij elkaar blijken te passen. Het werk van Haruki Murakami, met romans als ‘Norwegian Wood’, ‘Kafka op het strand’ en ‘De moord op Commendatore’ en verhalenbundels als ‘Eerste persoon enkelvoud’, is in meer dan 40 landen uitgegeven en is bekroond met onder andere de Welt Literaturprijs en de Hans Christian Andersenprijs. Hij wordt regelmatig getipt als kandidaat voor de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur.

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has. Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton's enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a "blind" old man; and an undersexed guide dog.
 

Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.
 

This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details — a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in Afghanistan.

"The most intimate description of an Afghan household ever produced by a Western journalist...Seierstad is a sharp and often lyrical observer." —New York Times Book Review

In the tradition of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children comes an astonishingly ambitious and resonant novel that transports readers to Dublin in the year preceding the Easter uprising--a pivotal time in Irish history and in the lives of two very young men from different backgrounds.

The island of Cephallonia is now familiar as the setting of the novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin . This book explores the turbulent history of the island, focusing on the World War II years of Italian occupation, as well as telling the behind-the-scenes story of how the film version was made. As most buildings on Cephallonia fell to rubble in a 1953 earthquake, the way it would have looked in World War II had to be recreated by sets built for the filming of Louis de Bernieres' now legendary Captain Corelli's Mandolin . But do not expect the novel to be reproduced so faithfully because that is not the film-makers' style. They add their own visions, carefully explained here in an official companion to the movie, and de Bernieres' introduction shows how he anticipated that. All he could do to ensure respectful treatment of his novel was insist it should not be sold to Hollywood. The history of the filming is itself fascinating - the search for the cast, the locations, even the guns for the massacre of the Italians by the Germans and the other battle sequences. Film journalist Clark has done a good job here, aided and abetted by the stunning Greek island setting and ample action and character stills from the film.

A series of vignettes exploring African American life as it relates to social, political and family dynamics. For many, Cane is considered a literary masterpiece from visionary writer, Jean Toomer. He presents a diverse collection of tales with distinct and vibrant characters who populate a world that's all too familiar. HEADLINE: Jean Toomer delivers a vivid depiction of America in the early twentieth century that centers the Black experience, consisting of family, religion, romance and race. It's a detailed work of fiction that's closely rooted in reality. A collection of disparate stories illustrating the challenges and motivations of Black people in the United States. The author uses poetry and imagery to create a world that's recognizable but also unique. In Seventh Street, the narrative follows the happenings of a historic neighborhood with links to World War I and Prohibition. There's also Blood Burning Moon, which highlights a volatile love triangle that leads to tragic results. It's an insightful read that introduces outsiders to a different point of view. Jean Toomer's Cane is highly revered for its unique structure and compelling storytelling. It presents a brilliant contrast of rural and urban living, while acknowledging the racial disparities of both. This modern classic was crucial in establishing and cementing Toomer's literary legacy. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Cane is both modern and readable.

As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to know as much about the chemical details of their ancestry as Victorian heroes knew about their estates. If so, Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides) is ahead of the game. His beautifully written novel begins: "Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. Peter Luce's study, 'Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites.' " The "me" of that sentence, "Cal" Stephanides, narrates his story of sexual shifts with exemplary tact, beginning with his immigrant grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty. On board the ship taking them from war-torn Turkey to America, they married-but they were brother and sister. Eugenides spends the book's first half recreating, with a fine-grained density, the Detroit of the 1920s and '30s where the immigrants settled: Ford car factories and the tiny, incipient sect of Black Muslims. Then comes Cal's story, which is necessarily interwoven with his parents' upward social trajectory. Milton, his father, takes an insurance windfall and parlays it into a fast-food hotdog empire. Meanwhile, Tessie, his wife, gives birth to a son and then a daughter-or at least, what seems to be a female baby. Genetics meets medical incompetence meets history, and Callie is left to think of her "crocus" as simply unusually long-until she reaches the age of 14. Eugenides, like Rick Moody, has an extraordinary sensitivity to the mores of our leafier suburbs, and Cal's gender confusion is blended with the story of her first love, Milton's growing political resentments and the general shedding of ethnic habits. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about this book is Eugenides's ability to feel his way into the girl, Callie, and the man, Cal. It's difficult to imagine any serious male writer of earlier eras so effortlessly transcending the stereotypes of gender. This is one determinedly literary novel that should also appeal to a large, general audience

For years, rumors of the Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.

[It] will reach a huge audience though the writers old-fashioned talents for compelling character, plotting and landscape description the Guardian For sheer escapism pick up Where the Crawdads Sing . . . there is writing that takes your breath away the Times All is not as it seems in this heartbreaking coming-of-age bestseller the i newspaper

Charming, self-deprecating, quick-witted and funny' The New York Times 'The Hating Game is bursting at the seams with love (and hate) and heart' Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners Now a film starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, globally bestselling author Sally Thorne's hilarious workplace comedy is all about the fine line between love and hate. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman sit across from each other every day . . . and they hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. HATE. Lucy can't understand Joshua's joyless, uptight approach to his job and refusal to smile. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy's overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and desire to be liked. Now they're up for the same promotion and Lucy, usually a determined people-pleaser, has had enough: it's time to take him down. But as the tension between Lucy and Joshua reaches its boiling point, it's clear that the real battle has only just begun . . .

Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I?ve Loved Before (now a major motion picture!), Jenny Han.

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer?they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an ?emotional roller coaster? (School Library Journal, starred review) sure to captivate fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H.K. Choi.

In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.

Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can?t go back. Suddenly he finds himself reaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies of all kinds, and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante, dreamy, witty Dante, who can get on Ari?s nerves and fill him with desire all at once.

The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn?t understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he?ll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love.

'It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they cant. the literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian

Wat gebeurt er als de presidentszoon valt voor de prins? Je leest het in 'Rood, wit en koningsblauw' van Casey McQuiston.
 

"Het is bijna onmogelijk om mee te maken hoe Alex voor Henry valt zonder zelf verliefd op hem te worden – op hen allebei, én op dit briljante, geweldige boek." Dat schreef de New York Times Book Review bij verschijning van 'Rood, wit en koningsblauw' van Casey McQuiston. Deze heerlijke romcom gaat over Alex, zoon van de Amerikaanse president, en Henry, Britse prins. Meteen zodra zijn moeder wordt verkozen tot president, wordt Alex Claremont-Diaz gebombardeerd tot Amerikaanse royalty: hij is knap, charismatisch en nog intelligent ook. Het publiek vreet hem op. Eén probleempje: Alex ligt in de clinch met een échte prins, Henry, aan de andere kant van de grote plas. En als de tabloids daar lucht van krijgen, worden Alex en Henry gedwongen om te doen alsof ze het goed hebben gemaakt. Maar wat begint als een nepvriendschap, groeit uit tot iets diepers en veel gevaarlijkers. Kan liefde de wereld redden? Ook als die liefde er anders uitziet dan verwacht? Casey McQuiston sleept je met 'Rood, wit en koningsblauw' mee in een verhaal vol humor en liefde.

Two friends. Ten trips. Their last chance to fall in love... ------ 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us 'A gorgeous romance' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show 'Loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop *Also known as People We Meet On Vacation*

12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.
11 YEARS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.

10 YEARS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way.
7 YEARS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.
2 YEARS AGO: It all goes wrong. THIS YEAR: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives. You and Me on Vacation is a New York Times bestselling love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally, One Day and Casey McQuiston. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex. ------ 'Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year 'So warm and funny' Paige Toon, The Minute I Saw You 'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' Josie Silver, One Night on the Island 'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . .

A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. It's high time for Stella Lane to settle down and find a husband - or so her mother tells her. This is no easy task for a wealthy, successful woman like Stella, who also happens to have Asperger's. Analyzing data is easy; handling the awkwardness of one-on-one dates is hard. To overcome her lack of dating experience, Stella decides to hire a male escort to teach her how to be a good girlfriend. Faced with mounting bills, Michael decides to use his good looks and charm to make extra cash on the side. He has a very firm no repeat customer policy, but he's tempted to bend that rule when Stella approaches him with an unconventional proposal. The more time they spend together, the harder Michael falls for this disarming woman with a beautiful mind, and Stella discovers that love defies logic. Heart-tugging, sexy and utterly joyful - The Kiss Quotient is a book for anyone who has been in love, or in lust...