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Arthur Japin

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Bestselling historical novel about Queen Victoria's first prime minister, and the scandalous wife he never stopped loving

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Martijn Prins

Lord M.

On 20 June 1837, Victoria ascends the British throne at just eighteen. She discusses every step with Lord Melbourne, the prime minister who becomes a father figure to the young queen. In imagined diary entries from 1837 to 1840, Melbourne records her insecurities, her first political crisis, and finally her engagement to Albert, a loss he bears with stiff-upper-lip sadness.

Benny Lindelauf

Lindelauf appeals to the reader’s imagination, and once the reader has engaged it, they become part of the story and there is no turning back. Like Walter, they find themselves caught among the branches, hoping against hope for a miracle.

The first novel for adults by one of the Netherlands' most celebrated children's authors

Het licht tussen onze vingers

In 'The Light Between Our Fingers', Benny Lindelauf delivers an original and frank account of fatherhood, grief and the silence that can creep into a marriage after an unforgettable loss.

The Light Between Our Fingers

Connie Palmen

She once again revisits themes from her past work, like a medley of the greatest hits: the formative men from The Laws, a tendency towards profound attachment from The Friendship, the true crime from Lucifer.

Palmen is one of the Netherlands’ most-loved authors, and with good reason: she is incapable of writing a dull book. There’s always something at stake and, much like her media appearances, she never fails to offer her own, sovereign twist.

Johnnie Walker could well have been a long-standing, all-dominating force in Palmen’s existence, yet her style, tone and the power of her words bear no trace of it. Her style is subtle, robust and precise, with an aloofness that has the miraculous effect of drawing you closer.

Looking through the psychoanalytical lens that characterises her work, Palmen shows compellingly how her obsessions and addictions are interwoven at a deeper level.

An unflinching self-portrait of addiction, writing and the mother who shaped her

Lotte de Boer

Johnnie Walker

On a summer afternoon, sixteen-year-old Connie rides her Vespa across the Maas to a village café called De vriendschap, where no one knows her. She sits down at the bar and orders a whisky. The name she utters will be her inseparable companion and lover for the next forty years: intoxicating, loyal, and determined to destroy her.

Rob van Essen

Rob van Essen has once again written a weird and wonderful book rich in insights.

It would make perfect sense if Rob van Essen won the Libris Literature Prize yet again for his latest novel.

Rob van Essen has once again captured something brilliant in his new novel.

A darkly funny quest for the inexplicable by the bestselling, two-time Libris Prize-winning author

Stella Rieck

De grote schoonmaak

In 1980, Thomas leaves school without a diploma and takes a job at a small supermarket. One day Brixo, a walking mascot shaped like a giant bottle of a new cleaning product, tears open in the aisle. There is no one inside: only detergent pours out. His boss acts as if nothing happened, nobody has ever heard of the brand, and soon afterwards Thomas is fired.

The Big Clean-Up

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Philip Dröge

Philip Dröge goes back to the future and discovers his inner time traveller. [...] Dröge approaches time in terms of physics, metaphysics and philosophy. De tijdreiziger is almost bursting at the seams with surprising facts, entertaining anecdotes and intriguing reflections.

The Time Traveler is an original, informative, and captivating book that shows just how much time is a cultural and human concept. It's worth taking the time to read it.

Non-Fiction

Marianne Schönbach

De tijdreiziger. Een wereldreis naar de verhalen van onze tijd

Fascinated by Jules Verne’s world-famous adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Dröge decided at a very young age to undertake that nineteenth-century ‘journey through time’ himself. As we know, the protagonist completes his journey within the promised eighty days because by travelling eastwards  he gains time.

The Time Traveller

Cees Nooteboom

In the second volume of his diaries, the recently deceased writer throws the windows wide open to the world in a way rarely seen in Dutch literature. A truly cosmopolitan writer.

‘Reading a diary is like being offered an extra life.’

Bart Kraamer

Naar de wereld, in de wereld, uit de wereld. Dagboeken 1996-2006.

For over fifty years, Cees Nooteboom – the most internationally acclaimed Dutch writer – kept a diary. The first part, 'De danser en de monnik' ('The Dancer and the Monk'), written between 1970 and 1995, was released while Nooteboom was still alive. This second volume, is a posthumous publication following the writer’s passing this February aged 92.

Diaries 1996-2006

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

A powerful warning against the rise of authoritarian political leaders.

Absolute democratie. Kroniek van een aangekondigde afrekening

As far-right politics gains ground, elected leaders seize power, sideline judges, portray the media and universities as elitist, and bend government and policy to their will. The book’s title, Absolute Democracy, refers to this dangerous development. Prominent examples include Trump, Meloni, Putin, Orbán, Netanyahu and Wilders.

Absolute Democracy: Chronicle of a Foretold Reckoning

Lodewijk van Oord

State of Imagination  is exhilarating and profound, leaving no stone unturned. (...) Van Oord provides insight into a conflict believed to be ‘hopeless’ and even offers a glimpse of a way forward, there is light at the very end of a pitch-black tunnel. An impressive piece of work.

Narrative history at its best: superbly written, captivating, thrilling, personal, erudite and original. Amidst all the tragedy, Van Oord offers hope for a just solution to the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Staat van verbeelding. Een historische reis door Palestina-Israël

The history of Palestinians and Israelis, of Jews and Arabs, over the past century is one of hope, struggle and tragedy of epic proportions. This is the perspective from which Lodewijk van Oord describes that history in his accomplished work 'State of Imagination'.

State of Imagination: A Historical Journey through Palestine-Israel

Dutch Non-Fiction

Reinier Sonneveld

De geheimen van Sterrenstad is a captivating quest, written in an engaging style and with a multilayered, inventive structure that leaves you dazzled. You don’t find much young adult fiction with this many twists and turns.

Ilya’s experience of losing his father is described beautifully and tenderly. The comparison with little Laika, the first dog sent into space, looking out through a tiny porthole window into the endless emptiness, is poignantly apt. It mirrors Ilya’s own loss: lonely, weightless, rudderless.

De geheimen van Sterrenstad is dazzling, original and bold.

Children's books

How much of what you believe is really true?

Robin van der Gaag

De geheimen van Sterrenstad

For one whole night, the writer Reinier and his son are trapped in a rollercoaster car, dangling 32 metres above the ground. To help divert their attention, Ilya, a Russian man behind them on the car, begins to tell his miraculous life story. This marks the beginning of an intriguing frame narrative.

The Secrets of Star City

Renske de Greef

[Pip’s] endearingly matter-of-fact take on the countless shenanigans and unwritten rules at school is sure to strike a chord with young readers. You can feel yourself breathe a sigh of relief as Pip realises and champions the fact that everyone has their own truth.
The charming, cheerful illustrations and cartoony style form a natural backdrop to the story, making it an inviting read for younger and less confident readers.
I’m sure Pip will win over many hearts. And the best thing is that there’s part two to look forward to!

Discovering yourself, following your heart, being who you are

Luciënne van der Leije

Pip en de waarheid over eenhoorns

Girls love pink, glitter, singing and dancing. Boys love video games, dinosaurs and football. Boys and girls can NEVER – NEVER! – play together. And nobody is allowed to bring peanut butter sandwiches to school either – they stink! These are the UNWRITTEN TRUTHS at school. The only way to belong, like a zebra among many others in the herd, is to believe in those truths. Pip enjoys being a zebra: never sticking out, always playing it safe.

Pip and the Truth about Unicorns

Janneke Schotveld

Abel en Olle is a moving story that champions the plight of pigs

A series of compelling stories told with plenty of humour and beautiful illustrations by Martijn van der Linden.

Janneke Schotveld once again shows us what she’s best at: telling truly magical stories and finding irresistibly charming ways of weaving her social involvement into the narrative.

A heartwarming yet hard-hitting topical story

Abel en Olle

Abel is a lorry driver. For years and years, he’s been transporting the same cargo: 100 piglets, driving them from farm to slaughterhouse. One day, as he takes a short break, a young piglet manages to escape. Abel catches the animal and pops it onto an orange tea towel on the passenger seat of his lorry. ‘How much further till we get there?’, asks the piglet, startling Abel.

Abel and Olle

Robert van Dijk

Robert van Dijk has managed to capture grief  in a heartrending story. It is so tender it hurts.

With care and precision, and sensitivity Robert van Dijk guides you to the poignant conclusion. Mum no longer sets the table for four, and Dad openly shows his emotions: ‘He was crying silent tears’.

Van Dijk describes the emotions with empathy and care, the feelings are heavy yet his tone is light. By showing how each character deals with their loss in their own way, he demonstrates that there is no right or wrong way to grieve.

A tour de force.

A gripping, heartwarming story on grief

Elaine Michon

Het boek van Bent

‘I want to forget. I want to forget it all, and I want you all to forget it, too. That’s why I wanted a dog, a dog named Ben, so that we could talk about a dog whenever Ben came up in conversation, as it always did.’

Ben’s Book

Spring 2021

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