Un aller simple - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

Waiting Years, The

The beautiful, immature girl whom she took home to her husband was a maid only in name. Tomo's real mission had been to find him a mistress. Nor did her secret humiliation end there. The web that his...

The Clarinet Polka

Returning to his Polish-American hometown, young Vietnam soldier Jimmy Koprowski feels stifled by the community's unpromising routines, until his sister starts an all-girl polka band and sets in motio...

Il dolore perfetto

Alla fine dell'Ottocento un uomo parte da una città del Sud, una Sapri ancora fresca delle utopie e delle ferite del Risorgimento, per raggiungere Colle, un paesino toscano. È il Maestro, giovane anar...

El Viejo Y El Mar / the Old Man And the Sea

Kissing Kate

Having kissed her friend Lissa one summer evening, Kate becomes confused and so decides to keep her distance from her once-close friend while she tries to get a grip on her feelings and make sense of...

Books for Living

Boek Books For Living, geschreven door Will Schwalbe, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Literaire non-fictie algemeen

UFO FAQ

Since the famed Kenneth Arnold flying saucer sighting of 1947, the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs, and e...

Sugar

I'm the fat Puerto Rican–Polish girl who doesn't feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter. I've always been too much and yet not enough.Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always f...