Josephine Rijnaarts Book order (chronological)

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’s That Night and E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars. Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothing. Seventeen-year-old Leo is sitting in an empty playground at night, listening to the sound of partying and pop music filtering in from the beach, when he sees another, more popular boy strangle himself with the ropes of the swings. Then, in a panic, Leo drags the other to the beach and buries him. Over the next 24 hours, Leo wanders around the campsite like a sleepwalker, haunted by guilt and fear, and distracted by his desire for a girl named Luce. Meanwhile, the teenage summer rituals continue all around him—the fighting and flirting, the smell of salt and sunscreen, the tinny announcements from the loudspeaker, and above all, the crushing, relentless heat... A prizewinning sensation in France and now stunningly translated by Sam Taylor, Heatwave is Victor Jestin’s unforgettable debut—a searing portrait of adolescent desire and recklessness, and secrets too big to keep. *Originally published in France under the title La Chaleur.

De gepensioneerde uitgever Reither ontmoet, na de vondst van een mysterieus boek zonder titel, per toeval Leonie Palm, die net haar hoedenwinkel heeft gesloten. Ze hadden beiden de hoop op een grote liefde al opgegeven, maar een autorit van drie dagen naar Sicilië brengt daar verandering in. Wedervaring is een schitterende kleine roman over literatuur en taal, en over de liefde tussen twee oudere mensen die niets meer te verliezen hebben, slechts alles te winnen.

'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. As Edwidge made a life in a new country, adjusting to being far away from so many who she loved, she and her family continued to fear for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorated. In 2004, they entered into a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Brother I'm Dying is an astonishing true-life epic, told on an intimate scale by one of our finest writers.

The Collector of Worlds is a rare combination of literary achievement and popular accessibility. A bestseller in Germany, the novel is a meditation on the extraordinary life of Sir Richard Burton, one of the most flamboyant figures of the Victorian age. Burton was the first westerner to make the hajj to Mecca, and discovered the source of the Nile with Speke. His translation of the Arabian Nights is one of the great moments in the encounter between Islam and the West, a version of the Arab classic that scandalised his contemporaries with its salty eroticism. Troyanov's novel does full justice to this great, controversial mediator between cultures. The book imagines his encounter with India as a young officer, and other episodes in his life are seen through the eyes of his Indian servant; the Sharif of Mecca, who is conducting an enquiry into Burton's audacious journey and its consequences for the Ottoman Empire; and a former slave who guided Burton to the Nile.

Set in Canada and Europe, "Three-Day Road" follows Niska, a Canadian Oji-Cree healer, and her nephew Xavier, who joins the war at his friend's urging. As both become renowned snipers, they face the moral complexities of war. The novel explores themes of identity, loss, and the heavy toll of violence.

Het eiland Tristan da Cunha vormt het snijpunt van de levens van vier mensen.

A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998

"Die Lektüre dieses Buches gibt nicht nur eine Fülle von Denksanstößen, sie weckt auch tiefe Zweifel ob unsere kulturelle Evolution Schutz davor bietet, Tausenden von Frauen lebenslänglich zu traumatisieren."

Weergave van zes gesprekken van de Duitse feministische journaliste met een van de belangrijkste voorvechtsters van de nieuwe vrouwenbeweging in Frankrijk.