Best Women's Erotica 2010 delivers ecstatic, heady, and heart-pounding thrills. From the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of longtime lovers, the characters in these steamy stories revel in erotic adventure. In Carrie Cannon's "Straight-Laced," a lingerie...
This first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day. A master of the genre, Louise Erdrich has selected these pieces—thirty works that first appeared in magazines as well as six...
De nieuwe verhalen van Remco Campert worden bevolkt door dromende dichters, aarzelende jongelingen en in de verte is er altijd een meisje dat te mooi is om recht aan te durven kijken. Het zijn de vertrouwde campertiaanse karakters met heerlijke nieuwe en eigentijdse...
In a new hardcover edition of a classic PEN/Faulkner Award-winning collection, a screenwriter discovers the true meaning of glory, a divorced woman learns she is about to lose the last thing of real value to her, an injured rider is forced to face the night alone and more.
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De olifant kan en wil niets anders dan in een boom klimmen en van daaruit naar de verte kijken, ook al blijft hij keer op keer naar beneden vallen. Het is iets in hem waar hij zelf niets over te zeggen lijkt te hebben. Hij blijft het onbereikbare nastreven, terwijl de andere...
Get ready for a long, hard ride.
Is it any wonder that surfers fuel sexual fantasies the world over? All that exposed, sun-kissed skin, those broad shoulders and yearning for adventure make a stud on a surfboard irresistible. Editor Neil Plakcy takes us on a journey into a...
Vaarwel Evelien is het vijfde deel in de Evelien-reeks van Martin Bril, een bundeling van zijn befaamde feuilleton uit het weekblad Vrij Nederland.
Ook in deze nieuwe bundel probeert de beroemde huisvrouw uit Amsterdam-Zuid vergeefs haar geluk te vinden. Op dit feuilleton...
On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian emotions and uncanny tales -...
What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act for the twenty-first century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? In this collection, which...
