You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed. Hercule Poirot overhears a young man saying these chilling words, then days later, the man's stepmother, known to all as a sadistic tyrant, is found dead. Black Dog; 255 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 14,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than 40 years, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories, collected in 1 volume for the first time- cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters.Everyman; 509 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 25,00 Voor/Our Price € 10,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich, she has everything, including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they encounter Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip... Black Dog; 351 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 14,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
A Dutch actor and actress travel to 1970s Rome in hopes of finding their big break in this novel by Dutch novelist Arthur Japin. Gala and Maxim have been companions for years, each is overjoyed when the other finds work. But when Gala comes under the spell of celebrated Italian director Snaporaz, Maxim is besieged by worry.Knopf, 2010; 352 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 66 %
Samuel Beckett's first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the young Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. This is a work of extraordinary virtuosity. Beckett delights in the wordplay and sheer joy of language that mark his later work.Arcade Classics, 2011; 241 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 68 %
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. The indian servant in Washington becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. The disturbed Asian West Indian in London, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. The central novel is set in Africa, and its 2 main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa, but now Africa is going sour on them.Picador; 247 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 15,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffors from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived WWII only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. His parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing, but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.Knopf, 2009; 274 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 25,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
The great 17th-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including The Garden, The Definition of Love, Bermudas, To His Coy Mistress, and the Horatian Ode to Cromwell.Everyman's Library, 2004; 256 pp.; EN; S; hbVan/List Price € 12,50 Voor/Our Price € 5,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
A series of poison-pen letters has shattered the peaceful way of life in the village of Lymstock. No one is safe from the scathing accusations and alarming threats contained in these vicious notes. It seems that no one is free of motive. The stakes are raised when one victim apparently distraught over the content of the letter she received, takes her own life. Fortunately, Miss Marple is staying on as the vicar's houseguest...Black Dog; 201 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 14,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
In this masterful portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last minute details of a party she is to give that evening. Flooded with memories, she re-examines the choices she has made, looking ahead to growing old. Vintage, 2004; 172 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 13,00 Voor/Our Price € 5,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 54 %
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