Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. . . Huxleys ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

De Zeven Koninkrijken zijn verdeeld...

Met de dood van Robb Stark is de opstand van het noorden in één klap een halt toegeroepen. Stannis en zijn leger zijn noodgedwongen ingetrokken bij de Nachtwacht. Achter de Muur loert echter een onheilspellende vijand... En op de IJzerlanden heeft een nieuwe, wrede koning de plaats ingenomen van Balon Grauwvreugd.

In het zuiden is Koningslanding nog altijd niet hersteld van de dood van de monsterlijke kindkoning Joffry en diens grootvader, Tywin Lannister. Cersei heeft de IJzeren Troon in haar macht, maar het is de vraag voor hoelang. De schulden van het rijk lopen op, en oude en nieuwe vijanden dienen zich aan...

This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable.

Het Spel der Tronen is het eerste boek uit George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones - in vertaling Het Lied van IJs en Vuur. Van de serie werden wereldwijd inmiddels 75 miljoen boeken verkocht.

Het spel der Tronen verhaalt van de liefdes, de levens en de ambities van de Baratheons, de Lannisters, de Starks en al die andere grote families van de Zeven Koninkrijken. Het begint allemaal in het zuiden, aan het hof, waar de Lannisters sterke spelers zijn. De macht van de koning is tanende. Zijn Hand is onder verdachte omstandigheden om het leven gekomen. Velen zijn uit op eigen gewin. Als de koning Eddard Stark tegen diens zin benoemt tot zijn nieuwe Hand, wordt zowel hij als zijn familie betrokken bij de meest omvattende machtsstrijd ooit, het levensgevaarlijke spel der tronen.

Great Expectations, Dickenss funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pips journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young mans life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor - Dickenss late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations. 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.

Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, published in one volume for the first time in England in 1988 and in the U.S. in 1990 has been widely categorised as detective fiction among literary scholars and critics. There is, however, a striking diversity and lack of consensus regarding the classification of the trilogy within the existing genre forms of the detective novel. Among others, Auster's stories are described as: metaanti-detective-fiction; mysteries about mysteries; a strangely humorous working of the detective novel; very soft-boiled; a metamystery; glassy little jigsaws; a mixture between the detective story and the nouveau roman; a metaphysical detective story; a deconstruction of the detective novel; antidetective-fiction; a late example of the anti-detective genre; and being related to 'hard-boiled' novels by authors like Hammett and Chandler. Such a striking lack of agreement within the secondary literature has inspired me to write this paper. It does not, however, elaborate further an this diversity of viewpoints although they all seem to have a certain validity and underline the richness and diversity of Auster's detective trilogy; neither do I intend to coin a new term for Auster's detective fiction. I would rather place The New York Trilogy within a more general and open literary form, namely postmodern detective fiction. This classifies Paul Auster as an American writer who is part of the generation that immediately followed the 'classical literary movement' of American postmodernism' of the 60s and 70s. His writing demonstrates that he has been influenced by the revolutionary and innovative postmodern concepts, characterised by the notion of 'anything goes an a planet of multiplicity' as well as by French poststructuralism. He may, however, be distinguished from a 'traditional' postmodern writer through a certain coherence in the narrative discourse, a neo-realistic approach and by showing a certain responsi"

De Strijd der Koningen is het tweede boek uit George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones - in vertaling Het Lied van IJs en Vuur. Van de serie werden wereldwijd inmiddels 75 miljoen boeken verkocht.

Sinds de dood van koning Robert is Westeros in rep en roer. De opvolgingstwisten om de IJzeren Troon bereiken een hoogtepunt als Stannis Baratheon, in raad en daad gesteund door de ambitieuze Melisandre, zich naar Koningslanding begeeft.

Duidelijk is dat koningin Cersei alles op alles zal zetten om haar zoon Joffry te steunen als opvolger van Robert. Niet helemaal duidelijk is wat de geslepen en altijd manipulerende kobold Tyrion Lannister precies in zijn schild voert.

Intussen trekt vanuit het noorden Robb Stark ten strijde tegen de Lannisters en ver weg, op een ander continent, koestert Daenerys Targaryen haar snel groeiende draken, en droomt ze van een terugkeer naar Koningslanding...

In Ziek van liefde sleept Ian McEwan de lezer onherroepelijk mee in het verhaal van Joe Rose, die toevallig betrokken raakt bij een tragisch ongeval met een luchtballon.
Bij het ongeluk vindt een korte ontmoeting plaats tussen Rose en een zekere Jed Parry. Dit lijkt aanvankelijk niet meer dan een onschuldig incident, maar al spoedig blijkt uitgerekend deze ontmoeting het begin te zijn van een angstaanjagende nachtmerrie.

Ziek van liefde is een spannende roman over hoe een obsessieve verliefdheid iemand kan veranderen in een levengevaarlijke stalker. Enduring Love werd verfilmd met in de hoofdrol '007' Daniel Craig.

Een Storm van Zwaarden - Staal en Sneeuw is het derde boek uit George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones - in vertaling Het Lied van IJs en Vuur. Van de serie werden wereldwijd inmiddels 75 miljoen boeken verkocht.

De winter nadert, de Zeven Koninkrijken raken door bloedveten verdeeld. Ondertussen bereiden de leden van de Nachtwacht zich voor op de komst van een leger vogelvrijen uit de ijzige streken voorbij de Muur. De groep wilden van deze woestenij maken zich op voor een invasie van het Noordelijke Rijk, waar de jeugdige Robb Stark nog maar zo kort zijn kroon draagt.

Robb wordt door bittere gevoelens gekweld - zijn zusters zijn verdwenen, dood of overgeleverd aan de grillen van de wrede kindkoning Joffry, die met meedogenloos harde hand het zuiden regeert. Het is niet de vraag of, maar wanneer de strijd zal losbarsten.

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer 'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets. A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...

Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available* Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. 'Exquisite.' Guardian 'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' New York Times What readers are saying: 'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it. 5/5 stars' 'I loved it, every single word of it.' 'It took me wholly by surprise.' 'Utterly beautiful.' 'Essentially perfect.'

Onverminderd geselen kleine en grote veldslagen het continent Westeros. Het Huis Lannister heeft zijn greep op de IJzeren Troon verstevigd, maar het zwarte schaap van de familie, Tyrion Lannister, verzet zich in stilte tegen zijn zuster, die zowel zijn vader als zijn verwende neef manipuleert.

Robb Stark heeft andere problemen. Hij is gedwongen zijn jonge koninkrijk te verdedigen tegen de plunderingen van de verraderlijke Grauwvreugd-clan, die het noorden wil opeisen.

Ook Jon Sneeuw staat voor een moeilijke keuze: vertrekken van de Muur of het hoofd bieden aan de strijdmacht die aan de andere kant optrekt? Een continent verderop nemen de krachten van Daenerys Stormgeboren en haar draken met de dag toe.

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.' Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? 'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games) A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, it isn't long before their innocent childhood games devolve into a savage, murderous hunt ... 'Stands out mightily in my memory ... Such a strong statement about the human heart.' (Patricia Cornwell) 'Terrifying and haunting.' (Kingsley Amis) 'Beautifully written, tragic and provocative.' (E. M. Forster) ONE OF THE BBC'S ICONIC 'NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' What readers are saying: 'Every real human being should read this ... This is what we are.' 'It's brilliant, it's captivating, it's thought provoking and brutal and for some, its truly terrifying.' 'It can be read and re-read many times, and every time something new will appear.' 'There is a reason why this is studied at school ... Excellent read.' 'This is one of the few books I've read that I keep on my Kindle to read again.' 'I revisit this every few years and it's always fresh and impressive ... One of the best books I've ever read.'

Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal. Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00, a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room, even though it's plug has been pulled out. Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night? 'A captivating mood piece, delicate and wistful' Evening Standard

The sensational final instalment in comic legend Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series 'Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy' Times 'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY Read as Adrian continues to struggle with his love life, endures a painfully awkward school play and contemplates the unsettling prospect of applying genital poultice . . . __________ Sunday 1st July NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you are a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt. Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent . . . This laugh-out-loud final chapter in Adrian's story will have you hooked from the first page as you discover what he gets up to next. __________ 'A tour de force by a comic genius and if it isn't the best book published this year, I'll eat my bookshelf' Daily Mail, Books of the Year 'Hilarious. Comic gold' Sunday Times 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy . . . Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet...

Een indringende bildungsroman over romantiek en volwassenheid, over de onmogelijke en dappere liefde van een jonge man.

‘Norwegian Wood’ van Haruki Murakami gaat over Toru Watanabe. een stille en buitengewoon serieuze jonge student in Tokio. Hij is dol op Naoko, een mooie jonge vrouw, maar hun wederzijdse liefde wordt getekend door de tragische dood van zijn beste vriend - haar geliefde, jaren geleden. Toru went aan het campusleven en de eenzaamheid en afzondering die hij daar ervaart, maar Naoko kan de druk en de verantwoordelijkheid van het leven niet verdragen. ‘Norwegian Wood’ is een indringend verhaal over romantiek en volwassenheid, over de onmogelijke en dappere liefde van een jonge man.

Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father.

His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd') and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?).

And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him.

Frustrated, disappointed and undersexed, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything . . .

 Iedereen in de familie Berry is een beetje vreemd, maar dochter Frannie (Jodie Foster) spant de kroon: het ene moment duikt ze met elke man het bed in, de dag erna gedraagd ze zich als een non! Wanneer papa Berry een plan bedenkt om een hotel te openen, is dat voor Frannie het begin van een reeks avonturen die ze nooit zal vergeten. De familie Berry zal nooit meer hetzelfde zijn…

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died'(33).


Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club?before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club?


In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour's first woman P.M. - and to confide in his diary.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice&;not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys&;best friends&;are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.