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 […]
An Evening of Poetry Readings and Pamphlet Launch On Thursday November 26, join us at Mayflower Bookshop for an evening of poetry by students and alumni of the LAK Poetry […]