Coming Up, January 24: Bookshop Jazz
On Saturday, January 24, Mayflower Bookshop participates in the Leiden Blues and Jazz Week with the Daan Schreuder Trio. Daan Schreuder is a promising young jazz pianist from the Conservatorium […]
Coming up, January 5: A Diogenes for Our Times – Oudheid Café: Special Edition
Book Launch & Live Podcast Recording (in English) On January 5, Mayflower Bookshop will host a book launch and live podcast event for Inger Kuin’s Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and […]
Coming up: A Christmas Carol and Shirley Valentine’s Sunday Dinner
In the best Mayflower tradition, we organise two festive events leading up to the holidays: A Christmas Carol As every year, Mayflower presents you with a reading of Charles Dickens’s […]
Coming up, November 16: Jane Austen Festival
On December 16th, Jane Austen was born 250 years ago; reason for Mayflower Bookshop to celebrate her life and work with a festival on November 16h about this still popular […]
Coming up, November 9: The Renga Master: Matsuo Bashō and the Art of Linked Poetry
On Sunday November 9, Mayflower Bookshop welcomes translators Henk Akkermans and Wim Boot for an afternoon devoted to a fascinating form of Japanese poetry: the renga (連歌), or “linked verse.” […]
Coming up, October 26th: Hector Malot, a man of his time, a man of our time
Coco Hoek on Sans Famille As last lecture in Mayflower Bookshop’s series on children’s classics, Coco Hoek, expert on French literature, will treat us to a talk on the 19th […]
New: Mayflower Book Club!
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Mayflower Book Club! Starting on October 22, we’ll meet on Wednesdays at 8 pm once a month to discuss the current book […]
Looking Back – Leiden Pride 2025
Mayflower Bookshop was jam-packed for this year’s Leiden Pride lecture on the legacy of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. The event attracted a varied audience of community […]
Looking back – Beware of the wolf!
In a packed Mayflower Bookshop, expert on Slavic literature and communications consultant Louis Smit treated us to a special talk on the musical fairy tale ‘Peter and the wolf’ by […]
Coming up, September 5th: United in Anger – The Uniting Power of Literature on the AIDS Epidemic
On Friday September 5, during the 2025 Leiden Pride, Mayflower Bookshop will focus on the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the LGBTQ+ community and their literature during the 1980s […]