Illustrator Laura Stoddart illuminates a choice collection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens on the subject of love with her genteel watercolour cartoons. Divided into sections on the nature of love, love and marriage, the love affair, this book lets us smile at the silliness of those blinded by love, feel a pang for jilted lovers, and take note of P.G. Wodehouse advising girls that chumps make the best husbands, while enjoying the verse of Sappho, Marlowe and Wordsworth.Chronicle, 2007; 83 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 15,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
Life is good for Mma Ramotswe -the Miss Marple of Botswana-, as she sets out with her usual resolve to fix people's problems and untangle mysteries. This 7th book in the series continues the chronicles of the tiny agency located in Botswana.Pantheon, 2006; 227 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 22,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Charlotte Bronte wrote High Life in Verdopolis at the age of 17, when she was immersed in Gothic literature and fascinated by Byron and his affairs. It is a delightful romance, woven around the characters in her imaginary kingdoms Glass Town and Angria.British Library; 103 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that white South Africa has to offer. As the upheaval in his world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a shift in ideas and actions can avert ruin.Bloomsbury, 2005; 323 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 18,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
How his alter-ego copes with the often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice, on the eve of the Revolution, is described in Dr. Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance. Brilliant stories.Harvill Press; 158 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 19,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
These selected poems celebrate Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing enquiry.HarperCollins, 2006; 267 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics -a new topic for Coetzee- and explores the role of the writer in our times with an extraordinary moral compass. Senor C is an author who has been asked to write his thoughts on the state of the world.Viking, 2007; 231 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
The final curtain is closing on WWII, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition.Bloomsbury, 2007; 324 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a crime committed by one of their ancestors. Sherlock Holmes will uncover the truth.Vintage, 2008; 199 pp.; EN; pbpb € 6,50
Mma Ramotswe has a full caseload at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. She cannot ignore the plea who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. It's seems that one of her husband Mr. Matekoni's apprentices has run off with an older woman.Polygon, 2004; 231 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 22,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Originally published in France in 1963, Le Clezio's debut novel was a literary sensation. Adam Pollo, a very solitary young man, discovers ways of being, ways of seeing. He enters into a tree, into animals, he is at the complete disposal of life.Simon and Schuster, 2008; 243 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 26,00 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 66 %
This beautifully presented collection brings together 40 poems that celebrate spring in all its guises -ecstatic, contemplative, deceptive, seductive, poignant- illustrated with Fritz Kredel's delicate woodcuts of leaves and blossoms.Beacon Press, 2003; 92 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 16,50 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
An elderly man -widower, father, grandfather- undergoing a prolonged and proleptic dark night of the soul in a house inhabited by his daughter and granddaughter, themselves similarly bereaved and beset with demons of mourning, dissatisfaction, and self-recrimination. Auster's unique novels are often like Chinese boxes, continually opening further to reveal new layers....Henry Holt, 2008; 192 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 23,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 65 %
Euripides' devastating tragedy Medea -Medea has been betrayed by her husband, who has left her for a younger woman- is shockingly modern in the sharp psychological exploration of the characters and the gripping interactions between them.Free Press, 2008; 85 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 17,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
This splendid anthology of love poetry makes a beautiful gift book. The volume comes lavishly illustrated in colors of the Oriental palette - lacquer blacks and reds, delicate jade greens, and kingfisher blues.Andrews MacMeel, 2007; 48 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 17,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Containing some of the illustrations from the original manuscripts, this gift book tells the story of Charles Dodgson's lifelong devotion to Alice, and traces the stages through which the manuscripts progressedas it was expanded, given new illustrations by John Tenniel, and finally published under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.The British Library; 64 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; S; hbVan/List Price € 12,95 Voor/Our Price € 4,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
A handsome young man has had his portrait painted, and falls victim to the compliments he receives, lamenting that his appearance will not always be as it is in the painting. A cautionary tale, this Oscar Wilde classic is the story of a man.Dalmatian Press Classics, 2007; 245 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 10,00 Voor/Our Price € 4,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
Bunyan wrote the first part of this allegory while in prison for his faith, and this experience adds extra urgency and depth to his story of Christian pursuing his pilgrimage through Vanity Fair, the Slough of Despond towards the Celestial City.Penguin; 295 pp.; EN; pbpb € 7,50
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder. Set in 1954 in the shadow of WWII, this novel is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, a love story, and a war novel.Bloomsbury; 404 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 18,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
Harry Morgan was hard -the classic Hemingway hero- rum-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys durig the dismal days of the Depression. He ran risks, but it was the only way he could keep his boat and his independence.Arrow Books, 2004; 180 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 18,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Born on Long Island in 1819, Walt Whitman worked in a variety of fields, including journalism, printing, and teaching, before publishing Leaves of Grass in 1855, which was trumpeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson.Phoenix, 2003; 135 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 11,95 Voor/Our Price € 5,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
Years ago, Ismay and her mother came home to find her stepfather dead in his bath, and her 13-year-old sister Heather soaking wet. Now that Heather has a man she hopes to marry, and Ismay a love of her own, she wonders if her sister may kill again.Crown, 2006; 340 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 25,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 66 %
Garden lovers will cherish this collection of prose and poetry inspired by all things green and flourishing. With quotations from down the ages and through the seasons, this book contains words of wisdom on arboretums, pergolas, potting sheds a.o.Summersdale, 2008; 96 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 17,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
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