Hester Velmans Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Hendrik Groen je síce starý, no rozhodne nemá v úmysle vzdávať sa. Chce si na svete ešte niečo užiť! Nechce len popíjať slabý čaj, pestovať muškáty či apaticky čakať na smrť ako jeho vrstovníci. O svojom živote v domove dôchodcov si píše denník, kde zaznamenáva všetky svoje vzostupy a pády, napríklad pokus o založenie anarchistického spolku Starí, ale nie mŕtvi. A keď sa do domova nasťahuje žena, po akej vždy túžil, rozhodne sa podniknúť niečo, čo bude mať zábavné, nežné i devastačné účinky...

Josh Tak is just an average boy. So why is an international corporation so convinced that he is the key to conquering their new market - the past? Drawn into a whirlwind adventure, Josh finds himself in the middle of a nightmare, caught in umaya, a place between dreams and reality.

This beautifully woven masterpiece, spare yet richly told, plumbs the undercurrents of family life and tragedy in a startling and wise story of love, fate, and survival. Ellen Van Bemmel lives with her parents, who run an American news-clipping service, and her three siblings in an old Dutch house in a suburb of Amsterdam. Ellen's idyllic childhood is suffused with Americana, both the frivolous fringes like potato chips and Coca-Cola as well as milestones like Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, until family disaster strikes on her twelfth birthday. From that moment on her world begins to unravel. Years later, Ellen plunges us into the past as she leafs through a faded photo album and confronts the literal and figurative ghosts of her childhood. Seamlessly alternating the past and present, taut with Hitchcockian tension and warmed by a redemptive love story, A Heart of Stone tells a darkly humorous, yet ultimately compassionate tale. A Heart of Stone is the first of her books to be translated into English.