Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. "For this book I have chosen poems that 'travel' easily. Having lived all over the place and being married to a girl from New York City, my poems inevitably ponder on questions of identity, home, language etc...read more

Product Description: Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today. Self-Portrait of an Other is one of the most unique and innovative works in his oeuvre...read more

Product Description: Alfie and Tim are looking forward to their school trip, until Tim gets flu and has to stay behind. Alfie will have to cope without his best friend for once, but at least it's not Full Moon and he won't be turning into a werewolf ...read more

Product Description: Based on a true story, Arthur Japin’s new novel is a tale of consuming love and artistic creation that reimagines the last romance of the legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini.In Director’s Cut we enter the mind of Snaporaz, the lion of Italian cinema, as he slips into a coma in his final days...read more

When Henk’s twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother’s role and spending the rest of his days ‘with his head under a cow’. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. ‘A double bed and a duvet’, advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm? The Twin is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, The Twin is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one’s own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing.

A servant girl in an Italian manor house in the eighteenth century, Lucia is engaged to a young man named Casanova but flees from her beloved when stricken with the pox, embarking on a wanderer's life for sixteen years until she is accidentally reunited with the now legendary lover Casanova. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Min Thein, a lawyer in a provincial town in Burma, has struggled to avoid confrontation with his country's military regime, despite defending its victims. This is a novel about the life of a refugee, descriptions of the fate of Burma's political prisoners blend with Buddhist myth and memories of a carefree childhood.

A servant girl in an Italian manor house in the eighteenth century, Lucia is engaged to a young man named Casanova but flees from her beloved when stricken with the pox, embarking on a wanderer's life for sixteen years until she is accidentally reunited with the now legendary lover Casanova. 15,000 first printing.

The oldest of seven orphaned sisters from a rural part of 1950s Holland watches each of her siblings mature and leave the family bakery in search of self-fulfillment and love, only to return disillusioned, a course that prompts the women to unite and transform the bakery. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The oldest of seven orphaned sisters from a rural part of 1950s Holland watches each of her siblings mature and leave the family bakery in search of self-fulfillment and love, only to return disillusioned, a course that prompts the women to unite and transform the bakery.

When Suzanne's life becomes a whirlwind of uncertainty, she takes advice from an unusual source and soon starts shaking things up in her town by bringing new life to old grudges and past problems.