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Finding Her is based on the true story of Lienke and Guus Hagers, the love of each others' lives. During the Second World War when the Dutch East Indies is in turmoil, they lose all they possess, worse, they lose one another. Guus, one of the best fighter pilots of the Royal Dutch Indies Airways, is sent on a short mission to Australia. Before he is able to return, Japan invades the Dutch East Indies and Lienke is imprisoned. For three years, ...

These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband's Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. In The Wife's Story, Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea o...

On a private estate near the top of a mountain lives the Vandersanden family. Neurotic, aristocratic Mieke grooms her carpets while keeping a close eye on her family and her neighbours. Her husband, the self-made man Stefaan, is building up a career in a pharmaceutical company which is threatened by scandal. Daughter Sarah, overprotected by her parents and curious for the real life, is finding her own path, like a contemporary Madame Bovary or...

Tehran, 1983. Six-year-old Abnousse Shalmani rebels for the first time against the Ayatollah Khomeini by running naked through the school playground. Frank, provocative, intelligent, and lively: this is a woman who refuses to be veiled or silenced. Leaving Iran is the only option for her family: but once in exile, she soon discovers that Paris has its very own 'Beards' and 'Crows' to deal with. Following the publication of Salman Rushdie¿s Sat...

Alphonse moved to the Flemish Westhoek with his girlfriend Kat, away from the hustle and bustle of Brussels and a precarious living as a musician. He is content now, working alone as a handyman. His clients are pleased with his work, they are even more impressed by his presence and open themselves up to him and seek his advice. But Alphonse does not want to be a Jesus figure, a guru.

Speechless is a touching memoir by Tom Lanoye about his mother's final years. After a stroke, she-a butcher's wife and an obsessive amateur actress-loses her ability to speak. Slowly but inevitably she deteriorates, less and less able to communicate with her loved ones. In Speechless, Tom Lanoye takes stock of his colourful childhood, his struggle with love and his role as an author. He writes of conflict with his beloved diva of a mother and...

A new edition of the classic novel from the Canadian author Carol Shields, who died in 2003. The story of 4 people who become entwined in the life of poet Mary Swann.

A new edition of the classic novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning Canadian author who died in 2003. 'In her hands, we believe, anything can happen.' "The Guardian

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Flanders, 1914. David, a young Belgian schoolteacher, stands before the firing squad, sentenced to death as a deserter. Days earlier, he was teaching his fellow soldiers in the trenches to read and write, dreaming of a forbidden love back in Elverdinge, the Flemish village where he had worked as a teacher-and where, despite family tragedy, squalid surroundings, the rigid mindsets of the villagers and the malign influence of the Catholic Church...

When Erik Berggren, a young man, is found brutally murdered Inspector Magnus Kalo and his team are mystified. Other than being an alcoholic, the victim seems to have led a completely normal, if rather lonely, life. Then Erik's mother is visciously attacked in a similar way. Investigating family secrets that stretch back decades, and a trail that leads to to the Argentinian military Junta's reign of terror, Magnus realizes that someone is stalk...

The rich businessman Karl Ástuson left Iceland seventeen years ago to live a Playboy bachelor lifestyle in New York. He has almost everything he could possibly want, but is unable to maintain a relationship longer than a one-night stand. He still pines for his childhood sweetheart Una, so on a whim decides to return to Iceland and find her. They elope to New York City, but Karl's fairytale romance takes unexpected turns as his past and present...

In the summer of 1936, Janna, a young Dutch fencer, is sent away to stay with her father's old friend, a German, Egon von Bötticher. Egon had returned injured and embittered from the front at the end of the First World War, and now teaches fencing, and organizes bloody duels. In this strange world, Janna, intrigued by her unfeeling maître d'armes, starts looking for answers. What happened between Egon and her father? Which of them has to settl...

Harlem, 1969. The air is charged with hope and revolution. The Black Panters are in their prime, crack has not yet hit the streets. This is the backdrop against which The Last Poets wrote their passionate, self-critical poetry. Some twenty years later, young hip-hop bands drew on the Last Poets' legacy, making them the 'founding fathers' of hip-hop. Christine Otten's audacious novel is based on the The Last Poets' life stories, from their yout...