Visiting poet: Nhã Thuyên We are very happy to welcome to Mayflower Bookshop Vietnamese poet Nhã Thuyên, this year's Poet in Residence at the 52nd edition of Poetry International (June 10 - 12). Since its first edition in 1970, the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam has grown into one of the biggest poetry festivals in […]
Dr. Wim Tigges gives a talk on the brilliant fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his place within the history of the English detective novel. The event will be concluded by the performance of a characteristic passage from ‘The Blue Carbuncle’, played by Freek Bouricius and Simme van de […]
Orignally hailing from Scotland himself, avid St Pieter's Church guide and devoted Commissioner of the Leiden 3 October Vereeniging Adrian Young will give a talk (in Dutch) on Scots literature. An independent kingdom until 1707, when it united with Engeland into the new state of Great Britain, Scotland has not only a long history, but […]
Prof. dr. Paul Hoftijzer talks on his recently published book: Skinner in Noordwijk, a diary of an English boy at boarding school in Noordwijk at the end of the 18th century.
COMING UP: Mayflower Masterclass: Madness in Literature* On November 27th, Mayflower Bookshop presents a pilot: Mayflower Masterclass, a new format, in which an expert in a specific field leads the discussion on a theme in literature. Attendants of the masterclass are asked to read a book of their own choice on this theme in advance […]
After two year’s absence due to the coronavirus, Dinner for One performed by the Mayflower Theatre Company makes a happy return, featuring Freek Bouricius as Miss Sophie and Roland de Ligny as James, under direction of Sigrid de Zwart.
After two year’s absence due to the coronavirus, Dinner for One performed by the Mayflower Theatre Company makes a happy return, featuring Freek Bouricius as Miss Sophie and Roland de Ligny as James, under direction of Sigrid de Zwart.
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 former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, […]
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 marks the theme of Poetry Week 2023 (friendship) by marking the occasion of Burns’ Night on Sunday January 29th. Held throughout the world on January […]
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, followed by a signing session. In March 2022, after criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov fled Russia. First to […]
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 friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga and Roe? Who doesn’t remember phrases such as: ‘It’s time for a little something’ and “I am not lost, […]
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 Shakespeare's works brought together by two of his friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell under the full title of: Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. […]