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Een Engelsman en een Amerikaan worden verliefd op hetzelfde meisje; zij vraagt een guru om raad.

MYSTERY & HORROR Through the narratives of Mr Enfield, Mr Utterson, Dr Lanyon and Poole, Jekyll’s butler, the mystery of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is revealed: Dr Jekyll, an eminent scientist, has discovered a drug which changes him into the embodiment of his evil impulses. Which side of Jekyll, the good or the evil, will triumph? Dossiers: London and Crime The ‘Double’ in 19th-century Fiction

The first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam. 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.

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fucking embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you've produced. Choose life.

Tijdens een bezoek aan zijn oude college in Oxford wordt de vrouw van Alex Petersen, de mooie en levenslustige Rachel, vermoord. Alex' leven verandert ingrijpend. Een halfjaar na de moord keert Alex terug naar Oxford. Stap voor stap probeert hij het mysterie rond haar dood te ontrafelen. Alex wordt in Oxford hartelijk ontvangen door Harry, voormalig docent en mentor van Rachel, een man die tijdens haar leven overal bij betrokken lijkt te zijn. Maar welke rol speelt Harry? En wat hebben haar universiteitsvrienden, Anthony en Cissy, ermee te maken? Zij deelden een voorliefde voor verboden activiteiten met Rachel. Langzamerhand leert Alex dat noch zijn eigen leven noch zijn liefde ook maar enigszins is wat hij dacht. 'Een literaire thriller verpakt in een whodunit-liefdesverhaal.' - John Boyne, auteur van 'De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama' 'Superieur. Een uitzonderlijke roman. De plot is overtuigend zonder afgezaagd te zijn.' - The Observer 'De spanning van Nicci French en de bruisende intelligentie van Donna Tarts De verborgen geschiedenis. Lees dit boek nu voordat iedereen erover praat.' - Elle

A novel about childhood damage and the redemptive power of art from an author twice listed for the Women's Prize and the Giller Prize

In an orphanage in Indonesia, Johan watches over his younger brother Adam, as they have no one else. However, when they are adopted by different families, they lose contact. Johan is taken to Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, while Adam remains in Indonesia and is adopted by the Dutch painter Karl. Johan grows up in luxury, while Adam lives in a simple coastal town. But then, in the summer of 1964, civil war threatens Indonesia. Foreigners, especially the Dutch, are increasingly met with hostility. When Karl is arrested, sixteen-year-old Adam decides to do everything he can to find him. What he does not know is that his search will also bring him closer to his brother.

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago.What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father - a confrontation he has been avoiding for years.Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

De voormalige wapensmokkelaars Mace Bishop en Pylon Buso hopen eindelijk een ontspannen leven te gaan leiden in Kaapstad. Met hun nieuwe beveiligingsservice voor welvarende toeristen lijkt dat te lukken, tot Mace ingehaald wordt door zijn verleden. Hij moet nog één gevaarlijke klus klaren en krijgt te maken met een vijand van formaat: Sheemina February, een advocate met ijsblauwe ogen, een passie voor geweld en een zwarte handschoen aan haar linkerhand. Wie is deze engel der wrake?

From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. It is a world in which to immerse himself, a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad; another fails to happen; and, finally, he meets a woman who enthrals, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose, All That Is fiercely, fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change: a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, of the small shocks and grand pleasures of being alive. All That Is is a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime and draws together the great themes of Salter's writing: warfare, love, sex and marriage, and what it means to write.

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: - What President Trump's staff really thinks of him - What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama - Why FBI director James Comey was really fired - Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room - Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing - What the secret to communicating with Trump is - What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

Master storyteller Patrick McGrath, acclaimed for his novel Asylum, weaves a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set against the backdrop of Hogarth's London and the volatile Massachusetts Bay colony, the story introduces a flame-haired heroine whose journey lingers in the imagination long after the last page. Our narrator recounts the life of Harry Peake, a poet and smuggler who tragically lost his wife, Grace, in a fire that left him disfigured. He resorts to displaying his deformed spine in London alehouses, finding solace only in his devoted daughter, Martha, who inherits his fiery spirit but not his passion for gin. As Harry succumbs to alcoholism, he commits a final act of brutality, forcing Martha to flee to the American colonies. There, she becomes entangled in the fervor of rebellion, yet the shadows of her past loom large. Amidst betrayals, she seeks redemption through an unforgettable act of courage. Superbly plotted and absorbing, this novel showcases McGrath's psychological precision and imaginative prowess on a broad historical canvas. It tells the poignant tale of a child escaping a father's twisted love and the colonists' struggle for freedom from their homeland, marking McGrath's finest work to date.

Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine is an orphan, living in her uncle's rambling house in London's East End. Out in the streets, a murderer dubbed The Man of Crows is killing young women. As the city panics, Catherine grows obsessed by the dead girls, thinking they hold the key to uncovering the killer - but in fact, she's already far closer than she realizes . . . 'A charged, fast-paced ride through the dark underbelly of Victorian London. Fans of Sarah Waters will love this.' Good Housekeeping 'Wonderfully ripe, imaginative and gripping, with a spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense.' The Times 'Mesmerising.' The Lady 'A juicy book, with sumptuous period detail and a narrative crammed with intrigue and speculation.' Sunday Telegraph 'Thrilling.' Independent on Sunday 'Intense, intelligent and hugely entertaining, The Pleasures of Men will add Williams to teh ranks of queens of contemporary fiction.' Guardian

/ 9789027469311 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / paperback / 14 x 22 cm / 310 .pp /

Explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters as he flees the Mexican State which has outlawed the church. A theological thriller.

Een jongeman is gedoemd om uiterlijk zijn stralende jeugd te behouden, terwijl het geleidelijk achteruitgaan van zijn portret zijn toenemende innerlijke aftakeling onthult.