‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ - Byron’s poetry after 200 years Sunday January 28, 2024: 16.00 In April 1816, the notorious George, sixth Lord Byron, was leaving England for […]
Coming up: Jane Austen’s legacy On Sunday, February 18, linguist and anglicist Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade will treat us to a lecture on much beloved novelist Jane Austen. Not […]
Great Loves series Following our successful 'Great Books' series in 2023, we are now launching a new international series: 'Great loves'. This series will cover different types of love: the […]
Join us for a discussion of three recently published books on artistic explorations of volcanoes, Queer politics and Dutch rugby and a drawing book! - Adam Bobbette, Mira Asriningtyas & […]
This year, our annual commemoration ceremony of William Shakespeare also features our second event in the ‘Great Loves’ series, focusing on the iconic love story of Romeo and Juliet. On […]
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 […]