Jaap Robben

With its tight sentences and a fast pace, Afterlight moves like detective fiction. It's a poignant novel in which a single pregnant woman is mistreated in her conservative society; she remains resilient and determined to honour her baby's memory.' Foreword Reviews The young free-spirited florist Frieda grew up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps onto...

LonGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother. Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalised for years. While Lucien's home...

You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with clear-eyed sympathy and care. Jaap Robben handles delicate, dangerous...

For readers of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a beautifully illustrated philosophical book on the value of friendship and life, told from the perspective of a fly, and a gift book for all ages. What if you were thrown into existence in the middle of your life, with numbered days left ahead of you? Would...