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Bertram + de Leeuw Publishers is an independent publishing house dedicated to publishing non-fiction. We are interested in stylistically distinct and original books by authors with a mission in life. Books that matter, books that have social significance.

With that, we believe in offering excellent editorial guidance to our authors. Critical acquisition, combined with a committed and active attitude of the publisher, guarantees quality. Quality which the media, bookstores and readers notice and appreciate.

B + L happily welcomes established authors as well as new talents. We believe in a joint partnership with our authors, and all book proceeds are shared on a 50-50 basis. Our books, from print to e-book, are published in a sustainable, modern way and with great care.

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HEALTH | DIET

The Hamster-Brain Method How to Lose Weight in a Sustainable Manner A must-read before ever starting a diet (again).

Lose weight in a healthful way and keep it off for good.

Dr. Felix Kreier and Dr. Maarten Biezeveld highlight why it is so hard to maintain your bodyweight after a short and sometimes successful crash diet.

On the basis of the Hamster-Brain-Method, the two doctors explain how to reach weight Orig. Title: De Hamster in Je Brein Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Bertram & de Leeuw 230 pp. | May 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS English sample

loss goals in a sustainable way. When we decide to lose weight and start a new program, different areas in the brain come into conflict with one another. The more rapid the weight loss, the bigger the conflict and the smaller the likelihood of successful and lasting weight loss.

By aligning the different areas of the brain, the Hamster-Brain-Method will help you reach your goals of health and lifelong weight maintenance.

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Felix Kreier & Maarten Biezeveld Felix Kreier published in 2020 a scientific study on the hypothalamus, in the series Handbook of Clinical Neurology. In 2017, he and his colleague Maarten Biezeveld have founded the Haus of Hamster.

Together, they developed a unique method for sustainable weight loss, based on Felix’ previous findings during and after he conducted his brain research studies.

Maarten Biezeveld’s scientific research centered on the Kawasaki disease (an illness that affects the immune system) resulted in articles published in prominent scientific journals, such as The Lancet, and later on in a thesis, titled Genes and Proteins in Kawasaki Disease.

PRESS & QUOTES … a totally new diet philosophy…

— HE T PAROO L

Finally, a book that considers all diet advice on the basis of scientific grounds! Using the above mentioned knowledge is actually just using your common sense. And that is exactly what your brain is made for.

— DICK S WAAB (NEUROSCI E NT IS T A ND INT ER NAT IO NA L BES T -S ELLING AUT HO R O F WE A RE O UR BR AIN S )

… this book makes you understand how your brain works when you want to lose weight… The explanation of the way the brain works provides an insight into the process of losing weight, and the best way to do this…a great read…

— GEZO N DHE IDS N E T. N L

…from now on, you start losing weight with doctor Felix Kreier… really, really interesting, and now you know why losing weight is so hard!

— R A DIO HO S T A NKE BUC KINX, JO E MO R NING S H OW J UN E 2 5 T H

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SOCIETY | TECHNOLOGY

Once Upon a Future Your Own Destiny in an Ever Changing World An inspiring journey to the impending future and a fascinating experience for anyone who is curious about his or her future.

YOUR OWN DESTINY IN AN EVER CHANGING WORLD LEEN ZEVENBERGEN & RUUD VELTENAAR

It offers clarity about the future and hope for a better world. The authors have passionately painted a confronting picture of our biggest challenges in the 21st century and suggest examples of how we can create a world that we all long for. In particular, the coherence between all major developments, pragmatic examples and clear language Orig. Title: Once upon a future - De meest complete gids naar jouw toekomst Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Bertram & de Leeuw 400 pp. | March 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS English translation

make this book a unique “must read” for everyone who loves people.

In six chapters it becomes clear that our future is a lot more fun and exciting than we think. No doom scenarios or scary talk, but fascinating views and clear facts about the impact of technology, sustainability and other important developments that have a major impact on our lives, work, dreams and ambitions. And of course, on our society.

And if you are not interested in the future, then this future is indeed interested in you!

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Leen Zevenbergen & Ruud Veltenaar Leen Zevenbergen is a serial entrepreneur, leader and founder of European Sustainability Communities, TED-speaker and successful writer. Writer of management bestsellers, founder of leading edge technology companies and one of the founding fathers of the European sustainability movement.

Ruud Veltenaar is a philosopher, TEDSpeaker, author, SDG Ambassador and Impact Investor. As an inspiration for transformation, he provides nearly 300 keynotes and workshops per year on all continents, about a world in transformation to the next phase in our civilization.

PRESS & QUOTES Climate change, new technologies and other large transitions. The world is changing at a very high speed and radically. The two others write an optimistic and complete book about these changes. Written in easy language and with great optimism. By reading the book you will see your own future and the path to follow in order to create a great and better world.

— PR O F. J.P. BA LKENENDE, FO R MER PR IME MINIS T ER O F T HE N E T HE RL AN DS

With this optimistic book, Leen Zevenbergen and Ruud Veltenaar want to provide a complete overview of all the challenges and changes that humanity is facing, as well as their mutual cohesion. As a result, it offers a very complete picture of the components of everyone’s future.

And with that a form of guidelines to determine what everyone’s role could look like in creating a better world.

— FEIKE S IJBES MA , C EO O F ROYAL DS M

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Hollands Diep is devoted to publishing the best of Dutch and international literary fiction and non-fiction, focusing on areas such as literature, history, politics, current affairs, culture and art. The list includes works by authors such as Max Hastings, Ocean Vuong, Bill Gates, Barack & Michelle Obama and Brit Bennett.

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NOVEL

Harvest Alina travels with her son Lucian from her birthplace in Romania to Sicily to work on a tomato farm. They wind up at a deserted plantation. As Alina struggles to build a life for herself and her son, Lucian meets two other elevenyear-old boys: Paolo and Anwar. During their year of friendship, the three boys fight with each other, for each other, and against the world. Until it passes them by.

Harvest is a story about resilience. About the strength and fragility of the bond between a mother and a son Orig. Title: Oogst Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Hollands Diep 240 pp. | October 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch

against the backdrop of a battle for a dignified existence at the underbelly of economic reality. An ode to the vigour and vulnerability of a boys’ friendship on the edge of adolescence.

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Sien Volders Sien Volders (1983) studied art history and anthropology. Her debut novel North (2017) was praised by the press and nominated for several prizes, a.o. de Bronzen Uil en de ANV Debutantenprijs. Volders lives and works in Ghent, Belgium

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North A stunning debut novel about the search for direction and artistic freedom, with wonderful, atmospheric descriptions of the rugged North Canadian setting.

In the early 1980s, Sarah, a young silversmith, finds herself at a turning point in her life. Travelling north, she ends up in a small gold-mining town and meets Mary, who runs the town’s only store as well as its post office. Both these women will cross the path of two men: men who live only for music, freedom and the pursuit of an untamed existence. Gradually, Sarah will come to realise that Mary’s life has been a foreshadowing of her own, and what it means to be free.

Orig. Title: Noord 240 pp. | Nov 2017 RIG H T S S O LD Germany # O F CO P I E S S O LD 8,000+ AWA RD S ANV Debutantenprijs, De Bronzen Uil, Hebban Debuutprijs, LangZullenWeLeventrofee (shortlisted)

P RES S & Q UOT ES Volders’ tone is engaging and self-confident in that she doesn’t go looking for words. Her attention to earthly details, to the physical labour of forging silver and chopping wood present the perfect counterbalance for the romantic rendition of nature as the sublime, untamed surroundings in which man comes to terms with himself. […] With North Volders has added a memorable and compelling female character to the world of literature.

— DE VO L K S K R AN T

The penetrating atmosphere and the careful, meticulous composition of this debut novel are as convincing as the fine-grained depiction of its robust characters. You will slowly become enveloped in this blue-grass driven universe.

— DE M O R G E N

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Founded in 1963, Lemniscaat Publishers is an independent trade publisher that specializes in socially conscious non-fiction, philosophy and children’s books. We successfully publish over 70 titles each year. Our non-fiction list holds works that are both original and topical, and often quite critical as well. Many Dutch philosophers have published their debuts or their most important works at Lemniscaat.

We also publish translations of famous thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Taylor, Arthur Schopenhauer, Hannah Arendt, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Popper and Susan Neiman. On top of that we are co-founders of the Dutch annual ‘Philosophy Month’ and publish the corresponding annual essay on philosophy, which leads the charts for weeks and sells over 25,000 copies each year, making philosophy accessible to a larger group of readers.

Our philosophy books rank among the best in the Netherlands. Ever since the establishment of the ‘Socrates Cup’ in 2002 – the Dutch award for the best philosophical book of the year – we have won this award six times.

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PHILOSOPHY

A Philosophy of Madness The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness.

In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis

Orig. Title: Filosofie van de waanzin Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lemniscaat 758 pp. | January 2014 Territory: World excl. Dutch & WEL

in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the

Wouter Kusters

experience of the psychotic from medical classification,

Wouter Kusters is a Dutch philosopher and linguist. He is the author of Pure Madness.

A Philosophy of Madness was awarded the Dutch Socrates Award in 2015 for best philosophy book in the Dutch language.

he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters’s preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws

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on his own experience of madness—two episodes of

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the maddening effect of certain words and thought,

AWA RD S Dutch Philosophy Award The Socrates Cup 2015

blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind

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of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as

psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other firstperson narratives of psychosis. Speculating about he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a fullof philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent an inescapable truth and reality.

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Pure Madness Pure Madness is an extremely rich and personal book. It offers a helping hand to those who need it on their way to self-respect and autonomy. And it is also an eye-opener for peers, family members and caregivers. This tiny is the precursor of Kusters’ later more mature work, Philosophy of Madness, but in it all themes are already present: the absurdities of madness, its ironies, its paradoxes, its language struggles, its elusive and seductive nature.

P RES S & Q UOTES Orig. Title: Pure Waanzin 200 pp. | Jan 2004 AWA RD S Dutch Philosophy Award 2005 + Van Helsdingen Prize 2004

Kusters’ philosophical investigation into his own psychotic experience is a masterful tour de force.

— M E DIS C H CO N TAC T

Madness is not a case of thinking too little, but thinking too much. The madman is poised to experience an extremely clear insight.

— D E VO L K S K R AN T * * * *

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PHILOSOPHY | ECONOMY

The Utopia of the Free Market Neoliberalism Unmasked as a Utopian Ideology The Utopia of the Free Market scrutinizes American neoliberalism and its seductive yet devastating power over the architects of the global credit crisis.

Many Orig. Title: De utopie van de vrije markt Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lemniscaat 319 pp. | January 2010 Territory: World excl. Dutch

people

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neoliberalism

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objective

application of scientific economic principles, but in this book it is unmasked as a utopian ideology. The author demonstrates the strong influence of philosopher Ayn Rand, and her 1957 utopian novel Atlas Shrugged, on leading economists like Milton Friedman and Alan

Hans Achterhuis Philosopher Hans Achterhuis (1942) has held several positions as professor in Philosophy of Society and in Philosophy of Technology. He is one of the most productive and widely quoted Dutch intellectuals, with a decisive impact on the public debate in the Netherlands.

Greenspan.

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Moreover, neoliberalism proves to be deeply susceptible to the utopian hubris observed in the communist era

AWA RD S Dutch Philosophy Award The Socrates Cup 2011

one century ago. Neoliberal rhetoric is reminiscent of communist propaganda, and its consequences have been similarly disastrous. The author provocatively

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asks whether we should be surprised, then, that the aftershocks of neoliberal policy have caused the decline of American leadership and its global market share.

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On Violence A Philosophical Inquiry Into Human Violence

Orig. Title: Met alle geweld 974 pp. | 2009 AWA RD S Dutch Philosophy Award The Socrates Cup 2009

In the footsteps of thinkers like Hannah Arendt, RenĂŠ Girard and many others, the author seeks to understand the various manifestations of violence. What philosophical, anthropological, social and political mechanisms are at work? Are aggression and violence part of our human evolutionary inheritance? If so, what cultural, societal and moral ways can and should we further develop to take this evolutionary drift into account? How can we deal with the paradoxical backlash effect that fighting against violence is one of the most common ways that new cycles of violence start? But then, how can we break these cycles and spells of violence?

P RES S & Q UOTES Monumental study of a monumental philosopher. — P E T E R G I E SE N , DE VO L K S K R AN T

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PHILOSOPHY

The Genie out of the Bottle Philosophy is Everywhere How did we become the self-assured and at the same time insecure people that we are today?

In his highly original and beautifully illustrated history of modern philosophy, Ger Groot combines high and low culture to show that modern man is in a constant struggle with the legacy of religion.

Orig. Title: De geest uit de fles Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lemniscaat 360 pp. | 2017 Territory: World excl. Dutch, German& Chinese M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS German translation English sample RIG H T S S O LD Germany | DTV China | Duku N UM BE R O F CO P I E S S O LD 15,000+

Ever since Descartes let the genie out of the bottle, by ushering in the era of radical doubt, God ceased to be an anchor in our existence. Human beings have had to decide for themselves what kind of creatures they are and we can trace back the various results of this quest not only in philosophy, but in western culture as a whole.

Ger Groot argues that modern self-awareness, as articulated by Locke, Rousseau, Schopenhauer and Heidegger, is as likely to be found in the music of Bach and Stravinsky as it is in black metal and Monty Python.

Ger Groot Ger Groot (1954) has taught Philosophy at the universities of Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Rotterdam. He is known for his lucid contributions to public debate and his intelligent reviews of new philosophical and literary works.

A ground-breaking author who convincingly links philosophy with current events.

PRESS & QUOTES This introduction into modern western philosophy is a feast of recognition and clarity. Ger Groot easily switches between complicated thinkers and popular culture. — HA NS AC HT ER HUIS , DE VO L K S K RAN T

The Genie out of the Bottle is a beautiful book, not only in its content but also in its design. It is richly illustrated in every possible way. — CO EN VER BEE K , N PO RADIO 1

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PHILOSOPHY | ECONOMY

The Good Life and Free Market Economy A Cultural-Philosophical Analysis for Everyone The free market economy plays a dominant role in our lives.

More and more we see ourselves as consumers not only when we buy a loaf of bread or a pair of shoes, but also when we need a doctor or receive an education. As long as we Orig. Title: Het goede leven & de vrije markt Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lemniscaat 350 pp. | 2018 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS AWA RD S Dutch Philosophy Award The Socrates Cup 2019 N UM BE R O F CO P I E S S O LD 8,000+

have the money we can choose whatever we like.

But what does the free market economy mean for the quality of our lives? Is freedom of choice the only kind of freedom that really matters? Does the free market assure us of a good life, or does it actually impede it? What does ‘good life’ really mean?

The authors of this book use philosophers from all times and beliefs, combined with famous movie scenes, to make provocative analyses of contemporary problems. While this book was written as an introduction to philosophy for students, it is well worth reading by anyone interested in the philosophical and social issues of today.

Dr. Ad Verbrugge, Dr. Govert Buijs & Dr. Jelle van Baardewijk Dr. Ad Verbrugge is a philosopher and an associate professor at the VU Amsterdam.

Dr. Govert Buijs is an Professor at the VU Amsterdam. He is currently leading a team of economists, philosophers, and theologians in the Good Markets research project.

Dr. Jelle van Baardewijk is a researcher at VU Amsterdam, a member of the Freedomlab Amsterdam think tank and affiliated with the Good Markets research project.

PRESS & QUOTES Verbrugge, Buijs en Baardewijk explain […] how one can be critical of the dominance of free market thinking, without having to reject it. […] This profound , far-reaching and urgent book deserves a much broader audience than students of philosophy alone.

— LEO NIE BR EE BAART , T RO UW

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SOCIETY | POLITICS

Society Under Management How Does Management Influence Our Work, Democracy and Freedom?

This book is about management, but it is not a management book.

It describes how thinking and working as a manager has become so dominant in our societies that we don’t even notice it anymore. Since the 1980s management has spread through all spheres of life. Applying management theory to governments and states changed the relations between government, politicians, civil servants and citizens, and Orig. Title: Voorbij de managementmaatschappij Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lemniscaat 287 pp. | 2018 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS English sample

undermines the meaning of democracy. This book describes these historical changes and links together works by established economists and management gurus with works by contemporary historians and philosophers. Illustrative European case studies provide very recognisable examples, making the material easy to grasp.

The book states that the dominance of management in our society explains why we are incapable of dealing effectively with current challenges such as expensive yet often ineffective health care, increasing inequality, environmental problems and climate change. It proposes that issues caused by thinking as a manager cannot be solved by thinking as a manager. With help from authors like Hannah Arendt and Susan Neiman,

Marjolein Quené Marjolein Quené was educated as a historian and obtained an MBA while working in an energy utility. Later she was trained as a public manager in social security services in a Dutch governmental organisation. She currently works as an independent researcher and consultant. Society under Management expresses the ripened view of an insider in the managerial world, by someone who has managed to retain the objective and ironic stance of the critical outsider.

Quené calls on the reader to imagine a brighter world centred around human and democratic values.

PRESS & QUOTES Marjolein Quené reveals connections which you always suspected were there, but weren’t able to see before. She describes a society in which everybody and everyone is managed, almost exclusively on the basis of financial incentives. What values will remain if deep inside humans are only managers?

– S T E VO AKKE RM AN, T ROU W

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Meulenhoff Boekerij publishes both commercial and literary titles. We publish upmarket and genre books and have married the marketing sales power of a commercial fiction publisher to the quality controls and good taste of a literary house. We have published many titles that sold over 100,000 copies, no mean feat in a language area of 20 million.

Meulenhoff has a great tradition in publishing translated literature from all over the world.

Our list features more Nobel Prize laureates than any other Dutch publisher.

Boekerij is especially strong in quality commercial fiction and is the market leader in translated fiction. The women’s fiction and thriller list features international bestselling authors.

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NOVEL

Cheerfully Towards the Finish Line The very last diary of Hendrik Groen, one of the world’s most beloved seniors. An unexpected pleasure for everyone who craves to know how Hendrik Groen is doing after his previous diaries.

Even as a ninety-year-old, Hendrik is trying to live his best life, despite missing Eefje, Evert and his other close

Orig. Title: Opgewekt naar de eindstreep Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 208 pp. | November 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS available soon

friends; but he finds himself confronted with increasing

Hendrik Groen

memory loss.

Hendrik Groen published his first diary in 2014. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/⁄4 Years Old was an enormous success: there is an actual Hendrik Groen fan club, foreign rights were sold to more than 36 countries, a television series was produced, it was adapted into a play by Bos Theater Productions and it received the NS Public Prize 2016. His second diary, On the Bright Side, has been a bestseller since its publication. His diaries have sold over 700,000+ copies in the Netherlands and Flanders. Hendrik Groen is a pseudonym.

After his care home in Amsterdam is shut down, Hendrik Groen is transferred to a seaside village. The Old-ButNot-Dead-club has fallen apart. Every now and then there is an Old-But-Not-Dead-reunion with warm memories and generous amounts of booze, but apart from that, there isn’t much to look forward to. Hendrik

UNDER O P T I O N Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Poland, North America, Arabic, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Croatia, Russia, Romania, Vietnam

must face the fact that time is no longer on his side: he becomes increasingly forgetful and starts to lose his grip on things. In a last effort to counter his decline, he decides to start a new diary. If all else fails, he can at least reread what he has forgotten.

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On the Bright Side

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 831⁄4 Years Old

Hendrik Groen and his beloved companions of the Old-But-Not-Dead club are back! Like his first bestselling diary, On the Bright Side consists of

In short and honest, seemingly light-hearted

many daily challenges, described in a very witty

diary entries Hendrik Groen takes the reader

and satirical way, but tender and loving at the

along for a year full of ups and downs in an

same time.

Amsterdam retirement home.

Orig. Title: Pogingen iets van het leven te maken 328 pp. | 2014 R IG H T S S O LD 37 territories # OF CO P I E S S O LD 700,000+ AWA R D S 2016 NS Reader’s Prize 2017 Earphones Award (US)

One of the most successful Dutch debut novels of 2014; THE hot title at the 2015 London Book Fair!

P RES S & Q UOTES Engaging and hilarious, Hendrik’s diary gives dignity and respect to the elderly often overlooked in popular culture.

— PUBLISHE RS W E E K L Y

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Orig. Title: Zolang er leven is 375 pp. | 2016

Both diaries were adapted to a Dutch TV-series, attracting an average of 2 million viewers per week. Stage adaptations have also been numerous and very successful!

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# OF COPIES SOL D 300,000+

spectacular character who readers will wish they

AWAR DS 2016 Hebban Best Novel Prize 2018 NS Reader’s Prize

Hendrik Groen is an unforgettable and absolutely could be friend.

— B OO K R E PO R T E R

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NOVEL

More or Less Remarkable Events from the Life of a Slacker What a waste, thought Cindy Hoetmer when she once saw someone stumbling in a very extraordinary way, that all those humorous moments I witness and experience cannot be filmed. Cindy cannot film – according to herself she cannot do many things – but she can write. That is way she decided to write down the most remarkable occurrence of the day.

Orig. Title: Min of meer opmerkelijke gebeurtenissen uit het leven van een treuzelaar Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 288 pp. | February 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS

For readers of Hendrik Groen’s bestselling titles

At first the life of this midlifer seems not very exciting: every Friday she drinks beer in her favourite bar De Pels, every Sunday she loyally visits her retired parents, and walks through the Jordaan, a neighborhood in Amsterdam, with its typical inhabitants.

However, Hoetmer describes these everyday situations with so much humor, melancholy and love that they almost adopt epical perspectives. In this way she creates a life which is both airy and gloomy, where fears and issues sometimes are laughed off and sometimes are tackled. Briefly, life as we all know it. Does not any of us navigate from time to time between ‘Is this everything in life?’ and yourself and taking life particularly not too serious?

PRESS & QUOTES A perfect mix of Simon Carmiggelt and Charles Bukowski.

— HE T PAROO L

Cindy Hoetmer Cindy Hoetmer (Amsterdam, 1967) is graphic designer and writer. She previously wrote for several Dutch periodicals such as Blvd., HP/De Tijd and Nieuwe Revu.

A two decennia older Bridget Jones living in Amsterdam and lingering through life.

— T RO UW

Hoetmer describes her adventures in the “would-be-literary circles” of Amsterdam in witty sketches, in which she especially does not spare herself.

— N BD BIBL IO N

Cindy’s pieces are a major gift for every reader, but above all for the people who participate in them. You do not ask her for a gift at your house warming, because you hope to receive it the next day: a pleasant piece about your house (too big), your girlfriend (too beautiful) and your friends (too poetic).

— E RIK RO Z IN G

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NATURE | ANIMALS

How One Crazy Ant Can Change the World And Other Wonderful Stories From Nature Arjan Postma invites us to look at the natural world in a different way. His ability to recognize remarkable similarities between humans and non-humans - combined with his captivating way of storytelling - results in a series of unique stories.

Orig. Title: Hoe één gekke mier de wereld kan veranderen: en andere wonderlijke verhalen uit de natuur Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 216 pp. | September 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS English sample

Arjan Postma & Koen van Santvoord Arjan Postma is a great storyteller and a welcome guest on radio and television. He is renowned for hosting the Dutch TV-show Het zijn net mensen (Almost Human) and appears regularly on various talkshows as a naturalist. On top of that he’s a great lecturer. His fourth book is entitled How One Crazy Ant Can Change the World. Arjan’s stories are recorded by Koen van Santvoord. This book is already their fourth production together.

He shows how one crazy ant can change the world and offers us a glimpse into animal culture - describing how animals make theatre, prepare their food and build entire cities.

Major topics like leadership, teamwork and love are also touched upon.

His cheerful insights into the animal world guarantee that Arjan’s stories are always original and surprising, but this book will maybe also make us realize that we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously.

PRESS & QUOTES Postma’s enthusiam for the animal kingdom is contagious. He makes you feel as if you’re right beside him in the bushes.

— A LGEM E E N DAG BL AD

Arjan Postma rapidly won the hearts of nature lovers.

— N CRV -G IDS

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NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

Mr. Kaor Yamamoto The Intriguing Story of a Mysterious Japanese Man, a Volendam Hotel and Thousands of Letters For years, a hotel in the Dutch city of Volendam has been receiving handwritten letters from a certain Mr. Kaor Yamamoto. Sometimes they receive four in one week.

Orig. Title: Mr. Kaor Yamamoto Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 112 pp. | February 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch

Occasionally, the letters contain a sample of a Japanese shampoo or cream, without any further explanation.

The hotel staff throws them away unopened. They are always the same. “Dear Sirs, how are you and How is the weather?” Is the opening of every single one of

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them. On the bottom there is an autograph in a scratchy

Lex Boon Lex Boon is a reporter for the leading Dutch newspaper Het Parool. He is known for his fine eye for unique stories. His report on the ‘Freezer Man’ – a Norwegian man who kept his dead grandfather in an icebox, hoping to resurrect him one day – became a national hit. He holds a lifelong fascination for pineapples.

handwriting, written with a black pen - “Yours sincerely,

A shorter version of this story appeared in the Dutch paper Het Parool and won a Mercur Award for best journalism of 2019. The Narrative Journalism Foundation agrees and considers the story to be one of the ‘best pieces of narrative journalism’ of the year.

Mr. Kaor.”

Who is - or hides behind the name - Mr. Kaor Yamamoto?

Why does he write these letters? Why is the message of all the letters identical? Journalist Lex Boon decided to investigate this story, and with the help of the hotel manager, he goes on a search for the mysterious writer behind these letters.

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Pineapple How a man’s passion for pineapples took him across the world, on a journey full of spectacular stories and unexpected encounters.

Lex Boon knows everything there is to know about the exotic fruit and writes about it with wit and passion. Pineapple is a fascinating history of – and incredible story collection about – the most exotic fruit we know.

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What an awesome book [...] I didn’t know that a non-fiction title about pineapples could be such a page turner. [...] Open this book and the sun begins to shine.

— DE VO L K S K R AN T

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NATURE | ENVIRONMENT

The Year that Flew By A Man, His World Trip and the Record of 6833 Birds An extraordinary story about the man who holds the world record for most bird species seen in a year: no less than 6833!

When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the Big Year, the legendary record for birdwatching, he was twenty years old - it was midnight and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. He promised himself, then and there, that someday he would become Orig. Title: Een bevlogen jaar Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 384 pp. | May 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch

a world record holder. For most people, such a promise remains just that - a promise

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challenge to a successful ending? Would he be able to break the record?

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adventure that takes us on a 24/7 search for birds. From the Philippine eagle to the

and nothing more. But Dwarshuis persisted: ten years later, he began a journey that took him through forty countries and five continents in the timespan of a year. Would he stay healthy? Would his relationship last? Would he be able to bring this mental and physical

A Year that Flew By is about the journey of a lifetime; an extraordinary and absurd horned guan in the misty forests of Guatemala: Arjan Dwarshuis has seen them all. His story is not only a compelling adventure, it also offers a shocking insight into natures

Arjan Dwarshuis Arjan Dwarshuis (1986) has been fascinated by birds all his life. He works as a professional bird guide and gives lectures and workshops on birdwatching. He starred in the award-winning documentary Arjan’s Big Year, and appears regularly on various radio and television programmes in the Netherlands, including the talk show RTL Late Night. He is a columnist for several magazines about nature and he is committed to the protection of birds around the world.

decline.

PRESS & QUOTES Nice book, nice story.

— MA R GR IET VA N DE R L IN DE N IN M

An unforgettable adventure.

— ME T RO N IE UW S . N L

Special trip.

— BO E K E N K RAN T

GOOD TO KNOW A documentary about his travels, Arjan’s Big Year, showed in 18 cinemas. The rights were sold to the NCRV (a Dutch television network) and it won the Newcomer Award on the Wildlife Film Festival

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Van Oorschot is Holland’s oldest surviving independent publisher. Ever since its foundation in 1945, by the legendary publisher G.A. van Oorschot, it has been building a list of the most renowned and respected Dutch literary authors, such as A. Alberts, M. Vasalis, Rutger Kopland, W.F. Hermans, Gerard Reve, and J.J. Voskuil.

Over recent years the company, still proudly independent, has been publishing a new generation of talented writers like Nico Dros, Ester Naomi Perquin, Miek Zwamborn, Otto de Kat, Stephan Enter, Marijke Schermer, Gilles van der Loo, Martin Michael Driessen, Maria Barnas, Nicolien Mizee, Erik Lindner, Sander Kollaard, all of which were published to great acclaim.

Introducing a New Series: Van Oorschot By The Way In every book in the series, the reader tags along with a writer on one of their favourite walks. Bestselling authors Gerbrand Bakker, Bregje Hofstede, Nelleke Noordervliet, Thomas Rosenboom and Marjoleine de Vos will take on the first installments.

Gerbrand Bakker describes a hike in his beloved Eifel and De Vos starts her walk from her house in the Dutch province Groningen. We follow Hofstede on her journey through the Dolomites; Noordervliet follows the Beara Way in Ireland. Rosenboom shows us his daily walk in Amsterdam. The books will be filled with maps, drawings, photo’s and dried vegetation. And last but not least: the books fit into your coat pocket, so your own tour is always within reach.

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THREE NEW TITLES IN THE VAN OORSCHOT BY THE WAY SERIES:

Little Mountain In Bergje, Bregje Hofstede climbs the mountain she often visited as a child: the Sass Songher in the Dolomites.

When she was little, the mountain was of mythical

Orig. Title: Bergje Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 80 pp. | April 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch English translation available soon

proportions; it was bigger than all other mountains on earth, a realm of boundless adventure, where the echoes of militant mountain queens could be heard and where Hofstede isolated herself from her large family. In her unparalleled, precise style, she describes how everything she sees, incites reflections on symbiosis and realism, motherhood and self-development, finding happiness in the small things and the vastness of life itself.

Bergje Hofstede Bregje Hofstede’s (1988) first novel The Sky above Paris was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize. The Rediscovery of the Body appeared in 2016, followed by Drift in 2017 which was highly acclaimed and was placed on the shortlist of the Libris Literature Prize. She also writes for various magazines and newspapers.

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You Looked Too Far Every day, Marjoleine de Vos goes for a walk, starting from her house in Zeerijp. Beneath a bright blue sky, heavy clouds or in merciless rain, they are always there: the fields, in bloom or bare, the crows, the trees with or without their foliage, the little church in Eenum.

Everything is always the same and always different.

What is it about hiking that makes it so appealing?

She reflects on the difference between the city and the countryside, the position of cultural landscape in the Netherlands, about the art of loss, a course on landscape reading.

Orig. Title: Je keek te ver Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 72 pp. | April 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch R IGH TS SOL D Germany (Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus) # COPIES SOL D 10,000+

Marjoleine de Vos Marjoleine de Vos (1957) is a writer, poet and editor. She writes about art, philosophy, literature and cooking.

Four collections of her poetry have been published by Van Oorschot.

She also published two collections of essays and a literary cookbook.

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The Big Round Long ago, Thomas Rosenboom started going for walks

Orig. Title: De grote ronde Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 70 pp. | June 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch

because he could not be inside without having gone outside first. For years now, he goes on a daily walk through Amsterdam. First, he goes towards the IJ, where he marvels at the vastness of the water, and then continues via the Prinsengracht, circling back to his home.

Along the way, he comes across the strangest characters, such as the nudist reader or the bubble woman. In his exceptionally meticulous style, Rosenboom reveals how walking with Amsterdam as his background shaped him, as a writer and as a human being.

Thomas Rosenboom Thomas Rosenboom (1956) published his first novel, Bedenkingen, in 1982. The novels Washed Flesh (1994) and Public Works (1999) were his big break for the Dutch public and both novels won the Libris Literature Prize. Publieke werken was also successfully adapted for film. His most recent novel The Red Carpet, was published in 2012.

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NOVEL

The Cloud Pavilion As his marriage comes to an end, an architect comes to a confronting insight: while he builds a home for other families, he has lost his own. Nothing seems to be permanent anymore, his designs already have an expiry date on the drawing board. Not only does he experience the erosion of his craft, but of his soul as well.

In order to regain his inspiration, he returns to Japan, to

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the temples and gardens which shaped him as a young

Jannie Regnerus

architect. He delves into the rituals of the two-thousand-

Jannie Regnerus (1971) is a writer and a visual artist. Her literary debut, The sound of falling snow (Het geluid van vallende sneeuw) in which she writes about her stays in Mongolia and Japan, was awarded with the VPRO Bob den Uyl Prize. Her novels – De ent, Het lam and Nachtschrijver – are critically acclaimed. The Lamb (Het lam) was nominated for the Opzij Literature Prize and longlisted for the Libris Literature Prize.

year-old Ise Jingu Shrine, which is deconstructed and rebuild every twenty years. Against the backdrop of Japanese culture, he reflects on his roots, how the landscape of his youth has influenced the course of his life.

In The Cloud Pavilion, Regnerus paints a vivid image of the fall and the resilience of an architect who tries to build a home for himself and his daughter.

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The Lamb Clarissa’s son, Joris, is a toddler when he marvels at a dead lamb left in the market square. How is it possible that something so young can die? Not long after, Joris pees blood. Powerless, Clarissa sees how her son undergoes gruelling treatments and loses his rosy cheeks and blonde hair. It changes her perception of the world around her; tacitly and gradually, all color and life disappear, all that remains is decay and finiteness.

In an attempt to defeat fate, Clarissa forces herself into vitality and life. She indulges in classical painting and every day, she and Joris go to the woods. To convince Joris and herself that not all wounded lambs die, they travel to Ghent to see the Ghent Altarpiece (or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) by the Van Eyck brothers.

Orig. Title: Het Lam 121 pp. | Jun 2018

Pure and without the slightest trace of sentimentality, Jannie Regnerus describes how a mother tries to resist the suffering that affects her child. It is the unusual combination of images, associations and language that transforms this small novel into great literature.

AWA RD S Opzij Literature Prize (shortlisted) Libris Literature Prize

P RES S & Q UOT ES You have written a beautiful book. Others will tell you the same.

(longlisted)

— CE E S NOOT E BOOM, I NT E RNAT I ONA L BE S T S E L L IN G AU T H O R

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NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

The Hunt for the Amber Room It might very well be the biggest missing piece of art in history: the amber room. A room made of valuable amber which sovereign Frederick I of Prussia had built in the eighteenth century.

His son inherited the room, who gave the artwork to the Russian tsar Peter the Great, after which it continued to amaze two centuries worth of visitors of the Russian Empire.

After 1945, the room disappeared without a trace. How it is possible that a whole room Orig. Title: Jacht op de barnsteenkamer Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 240 pp. | August 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS

vanished into thin air?

Jerker Spits brings the answer to this question closer to the surface. He writes about treasure hunter’s hopes and illusions, their love for art and the cruelty of history itself.

The Hunt for the Amber Room is about a quest set against the backdrop of defining events in twentieth-century European history: the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Third Reich, the end of the Second World War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Jerker Spits Jerker Spits (1977) studied German language and literature. At Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, he published a book on German culture: Steel Helmets and Currywurst (Staalhelmen en curryworst, 2016). He writes about German literature, politics and culture for Trouw, Duitslandweb and De Groene Amsterdammer.

Meanwhile, Jerker Spits deals with everything there is to know about amber.

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Individual Authors Leo Bormans & Qadir Nadery

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Qa dir Na dery Leo Bor m a ns

Qadir’s Last Marbles

Qadir’s Last Marbles

Qadir’s Last Marbles

Qa dir Na dery Leo Bor m a ns

The true story of a father on the run

The True Story of a Father on the Run The incredible story of a young man in Afghanistan and his escape to Europe.

Written in a sober but vivid style that shifts between a fairy tale and harsh reality For readers of Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Young Qadir grows up in a small village in Afghanistan with his mother’s tales of dreams and his father’s iron determination. All he owns are eight marbles. War is all around them, killing many loved ones. Qadir survives by working for the international troops

Orig. Title: De Knikkers van Qadir.

Het waargebeurde verhaal van een vader op de vlucht Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Lannoo 336 pp. | September 2020 Territory: World excl. Dutch M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE Dutch MS English sample English authors’ interview English reader’s report

who come to liberate his country, until he too has to flee from the violence with his wife and children, with the Taliban hot on their heels. They cross mountains and seas, finally reaching Europe after three months. But the Great Gatekeeper refuses to let them in. One by one, Qadir loses the jingling marbles of his life. And yet there is hope.

Qadir’s Last Marbles is a fictionalised account of a true story. The story starts right in the middle of the action in 2015, during a crucial part of the journey when the family is crossing the sea in a rubber boat. After these first three pages, we return to 1989 and the world of eight-year-old Qadir. The chapters that follow (divided into four sections, each named after a gemstone) present his moving life story, jumping back and forth in time. They show him growing up in the war and how that war scarred him for life. We

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read about him leaving his little village of some twenty houses at the age of twelve to

Leo Bormans is a researcher, journalist and the author of international bestsellers such as The World Book of Happiness (editions in fifteen languages – 300,000 copies) and The World Book of Hope.

When a refugee camp was set up in his village in Belgium, he happened to meet Qadir Nadery, who had fled the war in Afghanistan. It was the start of a special friendship, ultimately leading to this book, which was “crying out to be written”.

Qadir Nadery is an assumed name because he is still in real danger.

to the dangerous city of Kabul. We learn how he worked for international organisations,

earn a meagre living, first working at a garage forty kilometres away and then moving which exposed him increasingly to threats from the Taliban. We find out how he finally married Salima in 2010 and, after years working in the capital, inevitably has to flee to a safer world with their three children.

The book goes on to describe the asylum application process in detail: the endless waiting, the rejections, the cathartic good news. For him, at any rate...

This book was not simply ‘written down by’ Leo Bormans (as is so often the case in true-life stories like this one). It is the product of an intense friendship between the two authors, a book in which every sentence was a joint effort. They spent a whole year working together on this story.

PRESS & QUOTES Leo Bormans and Qadir Nadery give a vivid account of a fascinating story that would otherwise have gone untold. This book is a significant act.

— KA DER A BDO L A H, BES T S E L L IN G AUT HO R

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Index BERTRAND & DE LEEUW 4

Felix Kreier & Maarten Biezeveld | The Hamster-Brain Method

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Leen Zevenbergen & Ruud Veltenaar | Once Upon a Future

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Sien Volders | Harvest

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Wouter Kusters | A Philosophy of Madness

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Hans Achterhuis | The Utopia of the Free Market

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Ger Groot | The Genie out of the Bottle

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Dr. Ad Verbrugge, Dr. Govert Buijs & Dr. Jelle van Baardewijk | The Good Life and Free Market Economy

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Marjolein Quené | Society Under Management

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Hendrik Groen | Cheerfully Towards the Finish Line

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Cindy Hoetmer | More or Less Remarkable Events from the Life of a Slacker

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Arjan Postma & Koen van Santvoord | How One Crazy Ant Can Change the World

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Lex Boon | Mr. Kaor Yamamoto

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Arjan Dwarshuis | The Year that Flew By

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Bregje Hofstede | Little Mountain

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Marjoleine de Vos | You Looked Too Far

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Thomas Rosenboom | The Big Round

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Index VAN OORSCHOT

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Jannie Regnerus | The Cloud Pavilion

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Jerker Spits | The Hunt for the Amber Room

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Leo Bormans & Qadir Nadery | Qadir’s Last Marbles

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