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Dinner for One (first performance)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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 […]

Dinner for One (second performance)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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 […]

A Christmas Carol

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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 […]

Poetry Week Event: Burns’ Night

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 […]

Bookweek 2023: Maxim Osipov in Mayflower Bookshop

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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, […]

International Children’s Book Day: Winnie-the-Pooh

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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 […]

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Shakespeare Festival

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

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 […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Leo van Zanen – La Divina Commedia (Dante)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

In La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (Italy, 1265 - 1321) describes a journey he makes through the various departments of life after death. Over the course […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Wim Tigges – Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Melville's Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851) is an American as well as a universal epic, and a stylistic masterpiece. It is the tragic quest of the monomaniac Captain Ahab, who […]

Free

CANCELLED (Poetry International event)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Unfortunately, this year's Poetry International event at Mayflower Bookshop has been cancelled.

Free

GREAT BOOKS – Louis Smit – De Revisor (Nicolai Gogol)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Hypocrisy and corruption unmasked On Sunday August 27th, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature Nikolai Gogol's play ‘The Government Inspector’ (In Dutch: De Revisor) as the third lecture in […]

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PINK BOOKS with Splinter Chabot

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

You are cordially invited to join us on September 1st at 8:00 PM at Mayflower Bookshop, Breestraat 70, for an extraordinary Mayflower Special: "Pink Books," marking the essence of the […]