Visiting poet: Nhã Thuyên We are very happy to welcome to Mayflower Bookshop Vietnamese poet Nhã Thuyên, this year's Poet in Residence at the 52nd edition of Poetry International (June […]
Dr. Wim Tigges gives a talk on the brilliant fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his place within the history of the English detective […]
Orignally hailing from Scotland himself, avid St Pieter's Church guide and devoted Commissioner of the Leiden 3 October Vereeniging Adrian Young will give a talk (in Dutch) on Scots literature. […]
Prof. dr. Paul Hoftijzer talks on his recently published book: Skinner in Noordwijk, a diary of an English boy at boarding school in Noordwijk at the end of the 18th […]
COMING UP: Mayflower Masterclass: Madness in Literature* On November 27th, Mayflower Bookshop presents a pilot: Mayflower Masterclass, a new format, in which an expert in a specific field leads the […]
After two year’s absence due to the coronavirus, Dinner for One performed by the Mayflower Theatre Company makes a happy return, featuring Freek Bouricius as Miss Sophie and Roland de […]
After two year’s absence due to the coronavirus, Dinner for One performed by the Mayflower Theatre Company makes a happy return, featuring Freek Bouricius as Miss Sophie and Roland de […]
Freek Bouricius reads Dickens’s Christmas classic, first published in 1843. This timeless tale recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his […]
Sunday January 29th, 16h00 – Breestraat 70 Traditionally, Dutch Poetry Week is celebrated in Mayflower Bookshop with a poetry event on the last Sunday of January. This year, Mayflower Bookshop […]
To celebrate Bookweek 2023 (March 11 – 19) Mayflower Bookshop is proud to welcome Maxim Osipov on Sunday March 12 for an interview on his recently published book Kilometer 101, […]
To celebrate International Children’s Book Day, Mayflower Bookshop organises a lecture on the famous Winnie-the-Pooh, hero of the books by A.A. Milne. Who hasn’t grown up with Winnie-the-Pooh and his […]
2023 marks the fourth centennial of the publication of the ‘First Folio’, which was published in 1623, seven years after the death of William Shakespeare. This collection of 36 of […]