Evenementen

On Thursday May 7, join us at Mayflower Bookshop for an evening of poetry by students and alumni of the LAK Poetry Workshop at Leiden University. The aim of the […]

Wim Tigges on Crime & Dickens Charles Dickens was fascinated with crime, and in particular with punishment. These are at least subsidiary themes in all of his novels and in […]

Our June Book of the Month is Eleanor Shearer’s debut novel River Sing Me Home. In Barbados of 1834, a slave called Rachel is told she is free. Reality proves […]

The Art of Making a Forgotten Cup of Tea by Faizah Muhammad. Open Book Club, sessions in English, please sign up: bookclub@mayflowerbookshop.nl

Next in our Great Crime series: Louis Smit on Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (lecture in Dutch) The fifth lecture in Mayflower Bookshop’s Great Crime series will be given by Louis […]

From September 4 to 6, Mayflower Bookshop hosts a Pride Book Fair in the Catharinasteeg during the Leiden Canal Parade. Visitors can browse a selection of LGBTQ+ classics and new […]

The sixth lecture in Mayflower Bookshop’s Great Crime series will be given by Coco Hoek. Her lecture, in Dutch, will examine that greatest of all French fictional detectives, Commissaire Maigret. […]

Open Book Club, sessions in English – please sign up per session: bookclub@mayflowerbookshop.nl

First session of our Queer Book Club We read Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Open book club, sessions in English

Open Book Club, sessions in English - please sign up per session: bookclub@mayflowerbookshop.nl

This year, our annual full-day festival is all about Banned Books. We’ll explore the many faces of censorship, from religion to sexual liberation, with lectures, a panel discussion and theatre. […]