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
“Banned books Are the only books that truly live.” Nâzim Hikmet’s passionate plea for the banned book (see our Poem of the Month) will leave no-one unmoved. It was spread […]
We read Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Who really invented the first motion picture camera, and what happened to him? In Light and Shadow, Laurel Avery explores the mysterious disappearance of Augustin Le Prince, who filmed the […]
