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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Unfortunately, this year's Poetry International event at Mayflower Bookshop has been cancelled.
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 […]
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 […]
On Sunday September 24th, Coco Hoek will give the fourth lecture in Mayflower Bookshop’s Great Books series, featuring the famous novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (In Dutch: Gevaarlijk spel met de […]
On Sunday, October 29th, germanist and performer Hans van der Veen will give a talk on Goethe’s famous epistolary novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The sufferings of young Werther). […]