Literature & novels

1. Jennifer L. , Armentrout

The War of Two Queens

1. Jesse Fokke

The Boar and the Eagle

Publius Crassus is a promising youth at the forefront of Rome’s nobility, who is eager to crawl out from underneath his father’s tall shadow. Impetuously, he joins the equally loved and reviled politician Julius Caesar on a military adventure to the fabled land of Gaul. But when the reality of a bloody war unfolds in front of his eyes, young Crassus quickly learns that there is little glory to be found on the battlefield. He is forced to decide what kind of man he wants to be, in the face of one of the most momentous and monstrous wars of antiquity. The Boar and the Eagle is the debut novel of Jesse Fokke. It revives the world of ancient times as it has never been experienced before, combining compelling characters and a thrilling story with the backdrop of a realistic depiction of the ancient world during the last century before our age.

1. Rui Xin

Eternal Return

Eternal Return A woman called Reece was in captivity by her husband Wens in a big house south of France. Reece cannot remember what happened in the past. She lost all her memories with Wens and her kids. Reece has superpowers. Her blood can save people and she has great knowledge in Physics, Chemistry, and technology. Reece found her husband Wens sleeping with another woman called Lunes. She finds it gross and tries to escape several times but fails. On this day, Reece wakes up and finds herself bleeding, and one of her kids Elis comes to help her to escape. She manages to escape to the rooftop and meets her guardian Chilin, who is a red dragon. With the help of Chilin, Reece escaped to Amsterdam. Reece meets Xavi, who is a bar owner in Amsterdam. Xavi looks very similar to Wens. Xavi and Reece fall in love with each other. However, one morning, Xavi finds Reece faints on the ground. Xavi calls a doctor, and the doctor says the only one who can save Reece is Doctor Lee in south France. Xavi takes Reece to Doctor Lee, and Doctor Lee welcomes Xavi warmly and calls Xavi Wens. Xavi knows that Doctor Lee misunderstands who he is. But Xavi doesn’t speak out who he is...

1. Leilac Leamas

Devil's Puzzle

My name is Leilac Leamas, although those who truly knew me understood that even that identity was just a mask, a façade behind which lurked a more complex figure. By trade, I was a corporate consultant, operating at the intersections where commerce, politics, and influence coalesced. But beneath the surface of that seemingly innocuous professional label, I was an operative. My currency was the clandestine information that could either build empires or bring them tumbling down. As I lowered myself into the plush expanse of my airplane seat, the cabin enveloped me in a hushed stillness. Only the muted roar of the engines and the distant, furtive mutterings of other passengers broke the silence. There, within the confined space of the cabin, ninety precious minutes of contemplation stretched ahead—a fleeting respite to untangle the complex web of my forthcoming mission. This was no ordinary endeavor, no pedestrian bout of corporate subterfuge or international political maneuvering. Rather, it promised a descent into the very bowels of organized crime, under the banner of Sacra Corona Unita. This syndicate’s history was a...

1. Haruki Murakami

The City And Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami’s highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.

1. Solomonica de Winter

Natural Law

A unique publishing adventure: Natural Law, a novel about the world in a distant time, written by the phenomenal Solomonica de Winter. Solomonica is Dutch and writes in English; this English-language edition will be published first exclusively in the Netherlands and Flanders.In New America, people live divided into four different rival nations according to Natural Law. The world as we know it no longer exists, and life is hard and bleak, but, most importantly, it is a world without written record. Continuous war renders peace impossible, and amid all this chaos Gaia Marinos is trying to hide. She is a survivor, a mutant, hiding from the nations that are trying to kill her. When they discover Gaia, her most crucial mission is to find the world’s last books, but how far is she willing to go?Natural Law is a thought-provoking and intense story about the rise and downfall of a heroine in a sinister world.Solomonica de Winter (Bloemendaal, 1997) has lived in the United States, Israel, and Italy, and is currently living in Amsterdam again. Her first novel, Over the Rainbow, was an international bestseller.About Over the Rainbow:‘I read Over the Rainbow with great admiration.’ Ronald Ockhuysen - Het Parool‘Over the Rainbow is incredibly cool, serene, stylish and solidly told. (...) It is barely imaginable that this was written by a sixteen-year-old.’Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung‘Over the Rainbow transcends the young adult novel. For the sixteen-year-old that she is, she is remarkably experienced. She writes cinematically and evocatively, and uses beautiful metaphors.’De Morgen