As the third event in our series Great Loves, we travel to the Italy of Italo Svevo. We would probably never have heard of Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz […]
Great Loves #4: Cathy and Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights On June 30th, Wim Tigges will tells us about the great love between Cathy and Heathcliff in the fourth […]
Coming up – Great Loves: Anna and Alexei – a forbidden love in Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina On Sunday August 25, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature 'Anna […]
On Sunday September 22, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan as the sixth event in the series. Bonjour Tristesse took the world by storm as […]
On Sunday October 27, Mayflower Bookshop Great Loves series presents Theodor Fontane’s masterpiece Effi Briest as the 7th lecture in the series. Published in book form in 1895, Effi Briest […]
On October 16th, Oscar Wilde was born 170 years ago; reason for Mayflower Bookshop to organize a festival on November 10th about this fascinating 19th poet and playwright! Oscar Fingal […]
On Thursday December 19 at 1930, Mayflower’s Freek Bouricius will continue Mayflower’s Christmas tradition with a reading of a slightly shortened version of Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. This timeless […]
Dinner for One, a classic on German television for over 40 years (but less well known in Britain) is a short sketch picturing Miss Sophie’s 90th birthday party, featuring her […]
From January 20th to 26th, the annual Leidse Blues & Jazz Week returns, and once again, Mayflower Bookshop is proud to be part of this exciting event. This year, we […]
New series: Children’s Classics ‘Die jeeste ende daventuren’ (Floris and Blancheflour) Medieval ‘young adult’ stories – Leo van Zanen (lecture in Dutch) After our series ‘Great Books’ and ‘Great Loves’ […]
Nice and Naughty – the rebellious children’s verse of Annie M.G. Schmidt As second event in our series Children’s Classics, we cannot omit Dutch author Annie M.G. Schmidt and her […]
On Monday April 21, Easter Monday, Mayflower Bookshop hosts her annual commemoration of the Bard, on the day closest to his death date and (probable) birthday, April 23. Consisting of […]