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Maarten ’t Hart

Maarten ’t Hart has published more than forty books since his debut in 1971. His novels include A Flight of Curlews, The Fury of the Whole World and The Sundial. A biologist as well as a specialist on classical music, in 2019 he published a book about his personal fascination for Johannes Sebastian Bach.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 91 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91 padlock

The Weather Where We Are

Various Contributors

‘Ice gets into the sea in two ways: it falls in from calving glaciers, or it forms during the winter. Both kinds are spectacular.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 91 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91 padlock

Rats

Maarten ’t Hart

‘Only as I watched the little tugboat disappear towards IJmuiden, just west of Amsterdam, did I begin to have doubts about what had been proposed to me.’

Fiction | Issue 83
Fiction | Issue 83

Midsummer in April

Maarten ’t Hart

‘A premonition of approaching calamity deepened in the course of March to an unease that drove me almost crazy.’

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