London 2023: Cookery, Health & Craft

The Book of Italian Baking

From Pizza to Panettone

Belinda MacDonald

The recipe for success to every meal: Italian cookery!

From pizza and focaccia to dolci and panettone

A delicious cuisine with an eye for artisan techniques

Just about every region in Italy has its own bread, pizza, cookies, dolci… Belinda MacDonald perfected her passion on location during her many culinary trips to what is, in the author’s eyes, the most delectable country.

In The Book of Italian Baking Belinda mainly works with lievito madre – the Italian version of sourdough – and explains why it’s healthy, how it’s made, and how it is used. She writes about the types of flour you can make real Italian pizza with, and what’s so unique about Italian pastry.

With more than 60 recipes, she serves up delicious focaccia, schiacciata, pinsa Romana, grissini, and pizza with different types of dough finished with unique seasonal toppings. With a wide array of authentic dolci and biscotti as dessert, tutti fatti in casa.

210 x 260 mm | 176 pages | 27,250 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

The passion of Belinda MacDonald for baking combined with her love for the Italian kitchen led to the founding of her coffee bar 'Belinda’s Kitchen' in 2004 and her Italian restaurant 'La Cucina Antica' in 2022, both located on the Belgian coast. She visits Italy on the regular, locally took part in private courses and worked along with experienced chefs.

Belinda's Homemade Cookies all rights available

Italia con Gusto e Amore

A road trip to the roots of the Italian cuisine

Annet Daems

Finally a book about Italian street delicacies

Not just another book about Italian cuisine, but also a culinary travel experience

Abundantly illustrated with hundreds of full colour pictures and fifty authentic recipes

Italy has a rich culture of street delicacies that vary from region to region. What once used to be food for the poor, has now developed into celebrated cultural heritage. Respecting age old recipes and often following the principles of slow cooking, pure dishes are prepared. Invariably making use of the best local ingredients.

With her camper Annet Daems traversed the 20 regions of the Italian Boot, looking for stories and recipes of the ‘cucina povera’. In this book, Daems outlines the origins of many local street delicacies. Through interviews with ‘specialists’ and dozens of enticing pictures, she transports all these authentical dishes to your plate.

Annet Daems married in Italy and was adopted into a very large Italian family. In Tuscany she supervised exchange students studying journalism. She was inspired by the enticing stories of many local artisans and chefs. With much passion and dedication, she managed an Italian catering and deli shop in Antwerp. Annet explores an authentic and neglected part of culinary Italy and makes it her mission to make the ancient national dishes more widely known.

190 x 270 mm | 448 pages | 110,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Taste Korea

Korean Recipes With Local Ingredients

Ae Jin Huys

An accessible way of getting to know Korean cuisine

70 healthy and delicious recipes

With ingredients that can be found at your local grocer

What makes Korean food so flavourful? The secret is in the ‘jangs,’ the sauces that for thousands of years have formed the foundation of Korean cuisine. Jang is made using soybeans, that are fermented into soy sauce (ganjang), soybean paste (doenjang) and chili paste (gochujang). These flavourings ensure a rich palate of tastes and have a positive effect on health.

In 2019, Ae Jin Huys introduced us to ‘kimchi,’ a Korean type of fermented vegetables. In this book she shows us how you can use different jangs as flavouring. For example, the butter with your potatoes with a jang. It will change your dish completely.

Using 70 accessible recipes – with ingredients easily found in the local grocery store – the jangs make your everyday food more healthy and delicious in the blink of an eye. The best of both worlds!

200 x 280 mm | 216 pages | 19,800 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available, except for English rights English manuscript available

The South Korean Ae Jin Huys has been serving Korean cuisine for years in pop-up restaurants, events and workshops with her food concept Mokja. Together with her husband she often travels to Korea to get inspired.

Kimchi

German rights sold

Street Food

The heart of Mediterranean cooking

Simona El-Harar

A compilation of the simplest and tastiest street food recipes

A type of food that is becoming increasingly more popular because of its freshness and tastefulness

The whole book bathes in a sunny and cheerful atmosphere

The 75 enclosed street food recipes cover the whole Mediterranean region and are split into 5 chapters:

• Meat

• Fish

• Vegetarian

• Bread and pastry

• Snacks

What ties all of these recipes together is the importance that is attached to flavour. Because in order for street food to work, it has to be simple and instantly appeal to the senses.

195 x 240 mm | 176 pages | 24,600 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available, except for French & English rights French and English manuscript available

Simona El-Harar is head chef at Kitchen 151. She grew up in a Moroccan household filled with the fragrances, tastes and visual treats of her cherished mother’s and grandmother’s cooking. In their home kitchen she learned many skills and fell in love with the whole experience of providing delicious meals to overjoyed friends and family.

Dinner with Simona all rights available, except for French rights French manuscript available

Low-Carb on a Budget

More Energy, Budget-Friendly, Simple

Julie Van den Kerchove

60 budget-friendly low-carb recipes including a 10-days meal plan

Healthy cooking shouldn’t be hard or expensive!

Suitable for diabetics and protein rich diets

In Low-Carb on a Budget bestselling author Julie Van den Kerchove shows that healthy and tasty cooking should not be hard or expensive. In this title, she shares 60 fast low-carb recipes and practical tips for budget-friendly cooking.

Using her ‘Food Freedom Method’ she helps you to break away from dieting, to activate fat-burning, to elevate your energy levels and to attain a naturally healthy weight for your body type. The book also includes a 10-days meal plan with time saving meal prep tips and grocery lists. Once again, all recipes are free of gluten, sugar and lactose, and alternate between vegan, vegetarian, fish and fowl options.

Keto in 15 Minutes all rights available 195 x 253 mm | 224 pages | 28,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Including child-friendly comfort foods like carrot mash with meatballs, mini pizza and ‘nut-tella’ brownies.

Julie Van den Kerchove is the face behind the popular blog Julie’s Lifestyle & Instagram @julieslifestyleofficial, and the bestselling author of, among others, The Keto Plan and Keto in 15 Minutes. Driven by her personal search for optimal health and more energy she introduces us to low-carb cooking and her Food Freedom method: the way to turn your body into a natural fat burner and enjoy high energy levels, a healthy weight and a strong immune system every day.

The Keto Plan French rights sold

I Love to Eat 2

With even more vegetables

Pascale Naessens

80 new and surprising low carb dishes

Recipes with even more vegetables

Including beautiful vibrant images

Pascale's books have sold over 2.5 million copies

Authenticity is Pascale Naessens’ power. She doesn’t only inspire with her simple and surprising recipes, but also with her inviting images. Like Pascale says:

‘I wanted to write an honest book with real situations that people identify with and let themselves be inspired.’

Over the course of a year, Pascale works to create, test and improve her recipes in which the keynotes are tasty, simple, surprising and healthy. And as we already know, surrounding oneself with beauty is also something Pascale values dearly. That’s when we see the creative ceramist and stylist float to the surface. ‘Beauty does not require fancy stuff, but a creative and open mind.’

This is all reflected in her books and inspires the reader to get cracking at home, both with her recipes and with her table settings.

Low Carb Cookbook with 4 ingredients 1 Simplified Chinese rights sold, English and French rights unavailable English and French manuscript available

190 x 250 mm | 224 pages | 33,700 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

In the competitive market of ‘healthy food’, Pascale Naessens’ books keep their unique appeal. Her books differentiate themselves by their authentic character, both in recipes and lifestyle, making her the most important Belgian author and source of inspiration for healthy cooking.

Pascale Naessens is Belgium’s best-selling author, and has by now become a household name in the Netherlands. She is a figurehead of pure and healthy food.

I Love to Eat all rights available

Cooking with Leftovers from Your Fridge

60 creative recipes and smart preserving tips by Too Good To Go

Too Good To Go

60 seasonal recipes for a tasty solution to your remaining ingredients

Including smart preserving tips and shelf life hacks

Too Good To Go already has more than 5 million users in Belgium and The Netherlands

The aim of this book is simple: help you get the maximum out of the food that you still have in your fridge or pantry. Each recipe provides you with ideas to transform leftovers into delicious meals, snacks and desserts. With some creativity turning a vegetable casserole into a spicy curry and a scrap of potatoes into delicious rosti potatoes. Or what do you think of a smooth butternut mash made out of that leftover slice of pumpkin?

On top of that you get suggestions per recipe so you can change them to your own liking. In the meanwhile receiving many tips to preserve your favourite ingredients, hacks to increase shelf life and tests to assess freshness.

170 x 240 mm | 160 pages | 22,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available, except for French rights French manuscript available

Too Good To Go was introduced in 2015 in Danmark as a mobile application that connects customers to restaurants and stores that have surplus unsold food.. The movement also campaigns worldwide against the waste of food with surveys and awarenessraising campaigns.

Pure BBQ

Simple recipes for barbecue and outdoor cooking

Nick van Hoof, Kevin Kegeleers

Pick your own cooking medium: a barbecue or an open fire

Learn to use your ingredients optimally and cook according to the zero-waste principle

Pure dishes with and without meat or fish

Nothing is as great as sitting together around a smouldering barbecue and enjoying the tastiest food.

Nick and Kevin like nothing better than to bring people together with their wonderfully accessible dishes, prepared with respect for the product. Their recipes offer you with a guideline but they are never an exact science: you make them by feel and to your own taste. Just some salt, or perhaps some more seasoning? With or without meat? Let yourself be surprised by the combinations and fully enjoy the experience!

195 x 253 mm | 192 pages | 16,500 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

In 2018 Nick Van Hoof and Kevin Kegeleers won the TV show Grillmasters. From then on they decided to turn their passion into their job: 'Zouterover' was born. For almost two years they combined their own restaurant in Antwerp with a catering service, but moved to an authentic farmstead in 2021 to found their own 'Experience Center.' There you can pull up a chair by their 'Chef’s Table' and enjoy their pure dishes straight from the fire.

Simple Cooking and Sharing

70 recipes for cooking without stress

Margaux de Biolley

Margaux gives you the inspiration and motivation to prepare good food to share

Plan, share and enjoy

How to organise, plan ahead, create a pleasant atmosphere around the table and what recipes to prepare in order to enjoy precious moments of togetherness

In addition to her seasonally organised recipes, Margaux de Biolley offers us advice on how to properly receive guests and share a lovely moment of togetherness. She presents dozens of recipes categorized under ‘Appetizers’, ‘Brunches’, ‘Fish & Shellfish’, ‘Meat & Poultry’, ‘Vegetarian’ and ‘Desserts’, also focussing on a table set up that expresses sustainable values.

190 x 250 mm | 192 pages | 19,400 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available, except for French rights French manuscript available

Margaux de Biolley shares her passion for cooking on a daily basis and regularly organises cooking classes at home.

Sweet Table

Cake, Cookies and Desserts

Sarah Renson

65 simple cakes, cookies and desserts with a special touch

Ideal for both hobby baker and professional chef

Inspiring presentation

Sarah Renson is a trademark of pure, traditional, honest and no-nonsense. In Sweet Table you discover 65 of her delicious, characteristic cakes, cookies, ice creams and desserts with recognizable flavours and an own twist. Expect irresistible sweets like chocolate pie with figs and red fruits, macaroons with raspberry and choux craquelin. Sarah describes them all meticulously and in great details, so that everyone can get cracking right away.

200 x 280 mm | 192 pages | 18,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

After attending art school Sarah Renson started a bread and pastry education. After working at several distinguished Belgian restaurants, she started her own pastry shop, which currently employs several bakers and has branched out to a second location.

The Baking Book for Kids 1

Laura Kieft

The Baking Book for Kids 2

Laura Kieft

Laura Kieft runs the largest baking blog (Laura's Bakery) in the Netherlands with over 1.5 million unique visitors each month

30 recipes for delicious cupcakes, desserts, sweets, etc.

Full of cheerful and selfexplanatory illustrations

27,000 copies sold

200 x 280 mm | 96 pages | 14,500 words | full colour illustrations

hardcover wirebound

all rights available

Long-awaited sequel to The Baking Book for Kids 1

In a handy wirebound finishing

Tailored to children: baking with the guidance of a parent or on their own

For all her life, Laura Kieft has been baking. What started as a hobby has now turned into a successful business. Her recipes are regularly published and she sells her own baking ingredients.

200 x 280 mm | 104 pages | 13,100 words | full colour illustrations

hardcover wirebound

all rights available

The Coffee Book

Turn Your Kitchen into a Coffee Bar

Charlene de Buysere, photography Luk Thys

The Tea Book

Veerle Stoffels

Learn about the flavour profiles of different beans

Make stunning latte art in the blink of an eye

Discover your favourite blend

In this book your learn everything about the tastiest beans and the best brewing methods. Whether you’re a coffee layman or a true coffee snob, this book will allow you to brew coffee at home like a real barista.

Tea and infusions are becoming more and more popular because of the many health benefits

With dozens of recipes with tea as an ingredient, but also tips for pairing tea with your meals

A handy guide for every tea lover

133 x 200 mm | 352 pages | ca. 20,000 words | full colour illustrations hardcover | all rights available

Charlene de Buysere was trained as an interior designer, but quickly veered towards the coffee business. She became Belgian Brewerscup champion and won the World Aeropress Championship in 2011. She is co-owner of the coffee bar and roasting house 'Way Coffee Roasters' in Ghent. Luk Thys is an experience food-photographer with several titles to his name. He shares his love of delicious food and drink with Charlene.

130 x 195 mm | 296 pages | 18,000 words | full colour illustrations hardcover | all rights available

The Tea Book is a guide for the tea lover, who would like to read up on their tea knowledge. What are the most well-know types of tea, what are their flavour profiles, which teas provide more energy and which ones put you right to bed? You’ll also find many serving tips and recipes with tea used as an ingredient.

Veerle Stoffels is a tea sommelier, partner of many tea ceremonies all over the world and organizes ‘teativities’ with her company Tasting Tea.

Wine Class

The Grape Gianluca Di Taranto

All wine knowledge from Gianluca di Taranto, sommelier of the year

For absolute beginners and real connoisseurs

The first part in a new must have series ‘Wine Class’

Perfectly suited for an audience that is looking for something different than dull wine descriptions

Gianluca Di Taranto teaches you everything about wine that stands out: from the history of the origins till the characteristics and fun facts. With much passion and humour Gianluca talks about the character of the verdicchio, the properties of the nebbiolo and the origins of primitivo. Known and lesser known grapes are scrutinized, but one thing is certain: you will be enlightened.

Discover your new favourite wine in this beautifully designed gift book. This is the first part in the series ‘Wine Class’. ‘The Choice’ (De keuze) and ‘The Property’ (Het Domein) will be the next parts.

195 x 253 mm | 256 pages | 50,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Gianluca Di Taranto has received multiple awards as a sommelier. He worked as a sommelier at The Jane and took part in international internships at, among others, Osteria Francescana in Moderna. At the moment he gives workshops and courses and works as a wine director at Sanglier des Ardennes & La Petite Merveille.

The Book of Foraging

Foraging and Cooking from Nature

Ben Brumagne

Back to nature has never been so hot!

Everything you need to know before foraging for wild plants in the forest

With an overview of the most common plants, their properties and uses, and enriched with recipes

Edible wild plants are fascinating: you roam the forests, take plants home, and turn them into delicious dishes.

With his company 'Forest to plate' Ben Brumage was one of the first in the Low Countries to put foraging in the spotlight. In this book, he bundles all of his plant knowledge, enriched with intriguing stories and his own experiences.

An ideal book for those who’d like to try cooking from nature, but also wellsuited for more veteran foragers.

130 x 195 mm | 320 pages | 51,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Ben Brumagne is an herbalist trained in organic farming. He founded 'Forest to plate', which offers workshops, lectures and trips about foraging.

The Stinging Nettle Book

Recipes for house, garden and kitchen

Natasja van der Meer

Attractive layout

Accessible and surprising recipes and applications

For everyone interested in conscious and natural living

The stinging nettle can be found everywhere, in nature and in the city. Yet it is quite possibly the plant with the worst image. A pity because it is very versatile: you can cook with it, make drinks, paint, rope, soap, shampoo from it and it has many other possible applications. The Stinging Nettle Book is a practical and beautifully laid out book that shows how versatile, tasty and useful the stinging nettle is. It encourages you to use the plant more often and value it more.

Ideal for gatherers, hobby chefs, zero waste supporters, health lovers and everyone interested in conscious, sustainable and natural life.

175 x 245 mm | 192 pages | 21,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Natasja van der Meer is a creative soul with much feeling for design, styling an photography. During a course in herbal medicine, she got into the stinging nettle. The versatility of the plant made such an impression on her after which she decided to write a book about it.

Plants and Cosmetics

For skin, hair and house

Leoniek Bontje, photography Bella Thewes & Anya van de Wetering

Making your own plant-based personal care products: a growing trend

A beautifully designed gift book

Including recipes, handy pictures of the making process and explanatory notes of the used plants

Plant expert Leoniek Bontje teaches you how, with the use of the plants around us, you can make (cleansing) creams and lip balm, but also how to make deodorant, toothpaste, massage oil and fragrance sticks for your home. Finally you will have care products that are guaranteed to be free of synthetic additives.

With this practical book you can start making care products yourself and you’ll know exactly what to use for your hair, skin and home.

150 x 200 mm | 224 pages | 26,500 words full colour illustrations | hardcover English rights sold, German rights in option

Leoniek Bontje is a herbalist and wild picker. She loves to share her knowledge of plants. She gives workshops and has already written the well-received books Edible Wild Plants (Wildplukken), Medicinal plants (Plant als medicijn) and Gather and Conserve (Pluk en bewaar).

Sour Goods

Fermenting vegetables and fruit by yourself

Sanne Zwart

Practical, handy tips & tricks for fermenting

Filled with recipes largely based on locally sourced and easily accessible vegetables and fruit

Plays into the trend of living more sustainable with food and living self-supportingly

What to do with leftover vegetables? Throwing them away is a sin, there has got to be something else! Sanne Zwart is a fermentation expert and founder of RotPot® in Rotterdam. With Sour Goods she puts forward a practical beginners’ book about fermenting for everyone who wants to start at home. Because fermenting is the ideal way to transform leftovers from the fridge into tasty pickles. It’s fun to do, provides healthy and super tasty products and prevents food waste.

In this book you will find information about the origin of fermenting recipes, practical tips about fermenting at home, how to use, keep and serve produce, the requirements and base rules and of course tons of recipes to get cracking yourself. Because who doesn’t love more taste and less waste?!

150 x 200 mm | 176 pages | 26,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Sanne Zwart, the fermentation queen. Sanne owes this honorary nickname to the rescue mission she set up to save 60 tons of leftover white cabbage by turning it into sauerkraut. Next to this type of rescue missions, Sanne teaches workshops and also cooks herself with seasonal harvests, fermenting them into tasty pickles and ‘krauts’.

Everything about Ayurveda

Healthy & happy with a pinch of Himalaya salt

Marleen Dijkhoff & Cielke Sijben

Ayurveda is centuries old, but more relevant than ever

From the founders of the Ayurveda Podcast and online community

‘Everything about Ayurveda’

Not a quick fix, but something that sticks with you for life

We’re all busier than ever and have more and more need for a calmer and more conscious lifestyle. In their search for a life that is more balanced, Cielke and Marleen stumbled upon the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda. It has changed their lives entirely. They have rid themselves of severe sleeping problems, feel themselves more energetic than ever, find their bloated bellies flattened again and experience less pain in their joints. Furthermore they are more mentally balanced and understand themselves but also the people around them much better. It is their mission to have as many people as possible achieve this too, which is why they wrote this book that they themselves wished they had when they started their life changing journey.

Learn how you can lead a healthier and happier life with the wisdoms of Ayurveda. With their proverbial pinch of Himalaya salt, because it still has to be fun after all!

190 x 240 mm | 288 pages | 58,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

In 2021, Marleen Dijkhoff and Cielke Sijben started The Ayurveda Podcast which made it to number one podcast in a day. Beside the podcast they also founded the Everything about Ayurveda Community and organize Ayurveda Retreats.

Doctor Flower

The therapeutic power of flowers

Sara Adriaensen

How can flowers improve our (mental) wellbeing?

With 10 DIY creations by florist Lise Duchateau to compose your own bouquet of joy

Make flower bouquets that will heal and strengthen

Did you know that only just smelling a bundle of roses will lower your stress hormones? That blue flowers are more calming than red ones? Or that symmetry in sunflowers works as a real massage for our brains? Flowers make us happy, and that doesn’t just have something to do with the gesture of receiving them.

A beautiful guide to make bouquets adapted to your mood, based on scientific knowledge about therapeutic smells, colours and shapes of flowers.

170 x 210 mm | 208 pages | 47,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Sara Adriaensen is a clinical psychologist and specialized in environmental psychology. As the daughter of an apothecary and a homeopath before the word existed, she has been fascinated by the healing properties of plants and flowers since her youth. Now she researches her passion from a scientific angle. She is a much sought-after speaker, talking about the link between nature and (mental) health and regularly shares her insights in media.

Tea Garden

Growing, Harvesting and Mixing Tea Yourself

Modeste Herwig

Turn your own garden into a tea garden and enjoy a lovely cup of garden tea

Brew a single-type mix or make your own tea mixture for every moment of the day

A self-grown and composed tea-mix can be the perfect gift!

This book is a richly illustrated guide focussed on the growing, harvesting and processing of 40 ‘tea plants’. This means it doesn’t focus on ‘black tea’ from the teashrub (Camellia sinensis), but rather on fixed plants, annuals and shrubs that can easily grow in your garden. A large garden isn’t required, as many species grow just fine in pots and planters.

Discover how to make the tastiest tea yourself from fresh and dried garden plants. You also read all about the colourful and fragrant tea mixes, flavours, the growing of plants, drying and preserving. On top of that, you find much inspiration for planning out your own tea garden. In this way, the picking and drinking of your own garden tea, will be a new adventure every day.

7,000 copies sold

Modeste Herwig is a famous garden writer, garden photographer and planting expert. She has given workshops for over 20 years about planting schedules. Drawing from these years of experience, she wrote this inspiring book, full of tips and advice for every garden enthusiast.

170 x 240 mm | 128 pages | 20,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available

Marieke’s Picking Garden

A Whole Year of Picking and Arranging Garden Flowers

Marieke Nolsen & Modeste Herwig

Inspiring and practical book full of beautiful illustrations

For beginners and adepts

Includes the most recent trends in flower arranging

With just a few flowers and twigs from the garden you can already make attractive bouquets and other flower arrangements. In this book, florist Marieke Nolsen provides you with the inspiration to use picking flowers, berries and plants from your garden. With infectious enthusiasm she shows you how to make garden-appropriate flower arrangements for every season. You also get an insight into Marieke’s own border garden and colourful picking garden. Together with Modeste Herwig, Marieke describes how you can turn your garden into an all-year-round picking garden.

In Marieke’s Picking Garden you also find a practical chapter about picking and caring for flowers, vases and jars, hints for arranging and processing flowers, decorative constructions of branches to support flowers with, a picking calendar sorted by colour and a calendar for garden chores.

200 x 280 mm | 192 pages | 27,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Marieke Nolsen is a trained florist and has a huge passion for gardening. She has specialized herself in picking gardens and gives workshops and lectures about the subject. Modeste Herwig is a nature author, garden photographer and specialist in planting.

Green in every Room German rights sold

Sustainable Pruning With Respect for Plants and Animals

Tinka Chabot

Everything about the pruning of trees, bushes or shrubs, variegated plants, hedges, climbing plants and fixed plants

You learn how to prune, leaving alone flowers for pollinators and fruits for birds

With clear information and illustrated descriptions, many tips, and good examples from experience

A pruning book? Most definitely! But somewhat different from every other pruning book. Pruning might be the most fun job in your garden. Certainly when you see how much better your pruned plants are doing. In this book, you don’t need to know what your plants are called, but instead you learn to look for how the plants work. This pruning book makes you understand when, why and how you need to prune. The starting point is the unique natural shape of a plant: how they grow and, just as important, how they influence each other’s growth.

Due to ignorance and fear to prune much goes wrong when pruning. That has to change! In this book Tinka Chabot illustrates in an insightful manner how to keep your plants healthy and pretty.

170 x 240 mm | 184 pages | 49,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Tinka Chabot is an ecological horticulturist and land agent. This unique combination ensures that she looks at plants from an entirely different perspective and that she knows what they need: light, air, and space to grow. In this way Tinka grows healthy plants full of flowers and berries, which also benefits the animals in the garden.

Planting Your Own Garden

From

the whole garden to beds and borders

Modeste Herwig

Impressive example gardens, both small and medium sized

Ten gardens by renowned designers

Everything about planting and maintenance

Border plants, bushes and trees bring your garden to life. With the best garden plants and the prettiest combinations, you will experience the seasons at their fullest and enjoy a beautifully planted garden all year long. With this book you can get started by making a planting schedule for your own garden: for a completely new garden or to liven up your existing garden.

In the first chapter, we look at the style and function of plants in your garden. The second chapter you dive into ten impressive small and medium gardens by Dutch garden designers. You will also be shown eight inspiring borders. In chapter three you learn how to make a planting schedule, step by step. You are also given clear information concerning the layout of your plants. Included in chapter four is a selection of strong and beautiful garden plants for you to pick from. They are sorted by blooming time and colour. Here you will find trees, bushes and hedges, but also many species that grow into rich and dense flower borders. Finally, the last chapter provides information about planting and maintaining garden beds and borders.

Modeste Herwig is a famous garden writer, garden photographer and planting expert. She has given workshops for over 20 years about planting schedules. Drawing from these years of experience, she wrote this inspiring book, full of tips and advice for every garden enthusiast.

190 x 250 mm | 160 pages | 30,300 words full colour illustrations | hardback all rights available

The Pocket Book series

Marc Verachtert, Bart Verelst, Jean Vanhoof, et al.

Pocket Book for a Spunge Garden

170 x 210 mm | 176 pages | 18,000 words | full colour illustrations paperback | all rights available, except for French rights | French manuscript available

Manage your garden against extreme rainfall and drought

Includes numerous tips on how to drain and collect rainwater in a natural way

42,000 copies sold in this series

For the City Gardener all rights available

For a Bee Garden all rights available, except for French rights

French manuscript available

For a Permaculture Kitchen Garden all rights available

For Forest Bathing

English rights sold For Chicken Keepers all rights available

For a Bird Garden all rights available, except for French rights

French manuscript available

Turn rainfall into an asset for a beautiful, versatile garden Kasteelstraat

For a Ready-to-Eat Kitchen Garden all rights available, except for French rights

French manuscript available

For a Climate Garden all rights available, except for French rights

French manuscript available

First Aid with Cat Foolery

The survival guide for cat parents

Joline De Jaegher, illustrations Mariska Gewald

Playful and informative gift book for every cat lover

Including fun fill-out lists and attractive illustrations by Mariska Gewald

Chuck-full of useful tips and tricks from an experienced cat therapist

Yes, you really do love your little furball. But let’s be honest: sometimes it seems like you took in a small terrorist. One that pees all over the hardwood floor, proclaimed your favourite armchair to be its’ scratching post or treats you to a whining contest at night. And all that when half an hour later they’ll be sleeping and purring cutely on your lap.

That’s why this survival guide doesn’t only put the welfare of your cat first, but also how you as a cat parent can survive this behaviour and deal with it. Document what cat foolery they are commiting, look into their little criminal head, and above all: learn how you can prevent relapsing with these numerous handy tips and tricks that really help.

Upcoming title: First Aid with Dog Foolery

170 x 210 mm | 128 pages | 18,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Cat therapist Joline De Jaegher studied animal care and applied animal behaviour. Twelve years ago she founded a cat behavioural centre in Gent called Chat-o-Gand including an innovative cat hotel and trimming salon with countless ‘catfluencers’ in her database of customers. Beside that she’s a cat behaviourist at the veterinary practice WelloPet and regularly teaches animal care at the Vives Hogeschool and Odisee Hogeschool.

Vintage Hunters

About Finding, Restoring and Styling Second-Hand Interior Treasures

Justine Vergotte & Theo Vantomme

Beautifully finished, stylish gift book for interior and vintage lovers

Chock-full of smart tips, creative tricks from experienced treasure hunters

The first comprehensive guide for vintage hunters, the new interior trend

Nothing gives your interior as much personality as second-hand finds with a special story. But where do you find these hidden treasures and how do you give them a more contemporary look?

In this book, the vintage hunters from 'Hoarderlife' train your eyes to look out for precious pieces and have a better chance at shooting your shot at flea markets and second-hand websites. However, they also reveal their secrets on how to transform antique hand me downs into trendy eye-catchers, including step-by-step tutorials and useful checklists. Lastly, you also get a ton of styling tips and stories from fervent collectors, who will no doubt make you catch the vintage bug.

195 x 240 mm | 192 pages | 37,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Hiding behind Hoaderlife are Justine Vergotte and Theo Vantomme, the young entrepreneurial couple who transformed an old hanger into vintage-Valhalla during the COVID crisis. As antique dealers with a few screws loose they specialized into buying up weathered gems, which they refurbish into premium showpieces.

I Couldn’t Buy It, So I Made It

25 DIY Projects for Your Interior

Lies Van Driel

Found a great but too expensive eye-catcher for your interior? Not to worry: make it yourself with this colorful and contemporary DIY book

25 original projects inspired by well-known design and art pieces

Including step-by-step tutorials for affordable projects, suitable for beginners and experienced DIY’ers

Do you often fall in love with the beautiful interior objects in trendy concept stores, only to gulp at the price tag? With this book, take creative control and make your unique designer pieces all by yourself.

Choose from the 25 step-by-step tutorials with a fresh mix of accessible and more high-level DIY projects. And pimp your entire interior - from the living room to the smallest room - with budget-friendly and personal designs.

Extra advantage: you don't need any prior knowledge or machines to get started. Lies explains in detail which materials you need and where you can get them cheaply. This makes I Couldn't Buy It So I Made It the ideal handbook for anyone who enjoys a creative project, without being tied to one technique or hobby.

Lies Van Driel is a cheerful and resourceful trendwatcher with a passion for photography, printing techniques and collage. She is the founder of 'StudioFluo', a creative hotspot where hungry creatives of all levels can feed on professional workshops, tutorials and DIY boxes. Under the name TRUT, Lies also creates colorful works of art herself.

195 x 240 mm | 144 pages | ca. 18,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Craft Along with Congé Bricolé

Line Vanvoorden

About 40 creative projects for big and small crafters starting at age 3, perfect for at home or in class

Playful boost for motor skills, spatial awareness, problem solving, etc.

With step-by-step pictures, clear explanations and surprising tips

Arts and crafts are so cool! It’s all about having fun together and learning and playing. That’s how you make beautiful memories and train your child’s creative thinking. By crafting children also develop more than just motor skills: in a playful manner they discover the different properties of materials and learn all about problem solving.

The author shares simple tips to get cracking creatively with your little crafter in an easy manner. She developed around 40 original projects about different themes (space, circus, pirates, jungle…) and explains the different techniques step-by-step. That’s how you make super fun stuff together for your child to play with, not just things to decorate your home or classroom, but rather a rocket that can really fly, glistening moonstones, and sparkling space playdough, etc.

195 x 240 mm | 128 pages | 11,700 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Congé Bricolé is a project by Line Vanvoorden, proud mom and creator of merry things. Her mission: encouraging (grand-)parents of children to play together creatively by providing online inspiration, workshops and arts & crafts boxes.

The Dad Guidebook

The first 1000 days as a dad in 35 (somewhat) straight tips

Arno Van de Velde

Humorous and helpful tips for all dads

Everything you need to know as a dad about the first 1,000 days of your child

With funny comics by Arnoleon who has more than 58,000 followers on Instagram

Adventures with Dad

Being a dad is child’s play

Kenny Deuss

Out with dad and the kids in 70 hilarious pictures

Supplemented with funny tips for (future) dads

On Adventure with Dad has more than 500,000 followers on Instagram

170 x 210 mm | 128 pages | 22,000 words

full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available

Arno Van de Velde is a father of two and the man behind the Instagram account Arnoleon. On that page he shares his experiences about life by means of funny comics.

150 x 210 mm | 128 pages | 3,000 words

full colour illustrations | paperback | all rights available, except for English rights

English manuscript available

Kenny Deuss is dad to two girls, he’s the man behind the Instagram account On Adventure with Dad that makes his 500,000 followers laugh weekly with a hilarious picture about fatherhood. Mama Baas (Mommy is Boss) is an online magazine, blog and community by and for young parents.

Fearless

An illustrated list of phobias

Peter Goes

A beautifully illustrated book for daredevils and scaredy-cats

In his peculiar style, Peter Goes shows the obstacles we all encounter and the mountains we have to overcome

A masterful work about a universal theme in a playful manner

This book is for everyone, even for those who only get scared once in a while. Peter Goes draws with a smile for the daredevils and with much sympathy for those with small or deep fears in their lives. From very common phobias to more peculiar and remarkable fears, written with much compassion and humour.

150 x 215 mm | 128 pages | ca. 4,000 words

B&W pencil illustrations | hardcover all rights available, except for English rights English manuscript available

Bibliophobia is a fear of books. When you’re scared of snakes, that’s called ophidiophobia. And what do we call a fear of long words?

Peter Goes studied animations in the KASK in Ghent. He works as a freelance illustrator. His debut Timeline was published in more than 25 languages.

Magical Diary

Discover the Witch in Yourself

Susan Smit

Playing into the appeal of old European nature worship, the divine feminine and the power of nature

Susan Smit shines her light on spiritual matters with a critical attitude and the necessary self-mockery

The beautiful design by Bülent Yüksel encourages to read, write and make the book into your own diary

In her Magical Diary, Susan Smit, transports you into the world of ancient nature worship. Using clear and simple language, she writes about the elements, colours and crystals, the influence of the moon, the use of herbs, light and shadow, recognizing the signs and the power of nature.

This will become your magical diary, your personal journey. Next to all the useful information there’s also plenty of room to pen down your own experiences and thoughts. This is how you discover your own subconscious, magical side.

Learn, read, write: let yourself be astonished by the magical power of nature and let your intuition take over!

10,000 copies sold

Susan Smit studied Cultural Sciences and Dutch Linguistics. She’s a columnist and writer of novels and, by now, has many successful books to her name.

162 x 229 mm | 240 pages | 25,000 words duotone illustrations | hardcover all rights available

The Wedding Plan

Create Your Dream Wedding Like a True Wedding Planner

Joyce Denie

Book of reference to plan your wedding from start to finish

With a concrete step-by-step plan and inside tips from professionals

Premium look and feel and beautifully illustrated

Do you dream of a unique and personal wedding, but would you rather not invest in a physical wedding planner? This book provides you with all the tools and inside knowledge to organize your wedding start to finish. From budget estimates to priority lists, from well-organised checklists to typical pitfalls.

Step-by-step wedding planner Joyce Denie guides fiancés through the whole adventure, from the first plans to the last hours of the party. With almost 300 pages of indispensable information and inspiration, nothing is left to chance.

The Wedding Plan is the perfect guide for a watertight plan, including the necessary Pinterest-feel and Instagram worthy pictures and illustrations. In this way already just the preparation of your most beautiful day and party, will become a treat, lacking the needless stress and months of research

166 x 244 mm | 288 pages | 39,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available

Joyce Denie is an experienced wedding planner. Since 2009 she organizes inspiring events and fairytale weddings. With The Wedding Plan she bundles up her knowledge and expertise for the general public.

Heart for Wood

Exploring and working fresh wood

Harald Lamon, photography Artifix

Discover the versatility of wood

Includes step-by-step instructions to develop your own woodworking creations

A technical guide which also acknowledges the therapeutic nature of woodworking

Harald Lamon is a passionate woodworker. In Heart for Wood, he shares his love for wood in a well-tried way, focusing not only on the technical aspect of cutting with axes, saws and knives, but also on the feelings it evokes. Working with wood is not only relaxing, many even experience it as therapeutic.

Harald shows you step-by-step how you can transform this wonderful natural product into beautiful, sober, functional objects using solid hand tools. In his book, he mainly tries to get the reader excited about the craft and offers (relatively) simple creations such as coat racks, spoons, bowls and pots.

195 x 253 mm | 240 pages | 62,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Harald Lamon studied psychology and management, but has turned his passion for wood into his profession. He owns his own wood shop, 'Het Lepelhuis', where you can go and see his creations, workshops and join his fascinating lectures.

Modern Embroidery 25 Romantic Projects for Some Peace and Quiet

Manon Klerks

Unique and stylish patterns for beginners

Embroider beautiful decorations and fun gifts yourself

Everything you need to know about embroidering

In Modern Embroidery you learn everything there is to know about embroidering. Throw out those corny patterns: Manon van Heumen explains how to make the most trendy projects yourself.

From the well know embroidery hoops with pretty patterns to a bookmarker or your own stuffed animal; from fun little gifts to the most beautiful decorations. Using 25 project, you’ll learn it all.

195 x 240 mm | 176 pages | 17,000 words full colour illustrations | hardcover all rights available

Manon Klerks (Womanon, 80,000 followers on Instagram) started in 2021 with Threading the Seasons, the Instagram account where she posts her own beautiful, stunning projects. She also sells her patterns on Etsy.

Creative with Cricut™

25 inspiring projects for every Cricut fan

Joan Berris & Vera Mols

Get cracking creatively with Cricut

Concise technical manual and 25 inspiring projects

Including clear step-by-step pictures

Cricut is an American brand of cutting plotters, heat presses and accompanying materials. In the past few years it has gained quite an online community, meeting both online and in person to share inspiration.

In this title, both beginners and more experienced creative souls can find all the inspiration they need in 25 original projects for the different types of machines. In the concise introduction you’re offered information about the array, techniques and materials with a useful lexicon of common terms.

The clear step-by-step images and the extra explanations for the use of Cricut software, make this book indispensable. With Cricut, the creative possibilities are infinite!

Joan Berris and Vera Mols are real Cricut freaks. Joan is better known by the name Teddie B., the name of her YouTube channel. She can call herself an official Cricut Product Expert. She teaches Cricut workshops and offers product tutorials. Vera is manager of atlj.V the official Cricut online and offline point of sale in Belgium and The Netherlands. In addition she gives workshops together with her team with Cricut products.

195 x 240 mm | 144 pages | 31,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available

Jules & Julie Basics

Knitted accessories and sweaters for the whole family

Julie Jaeken

50 timeless models for babies, children and adults

With clear work descriptions and patterns

The perfect present for novice and more experienced knitters

You can’t have enough sweaters, hats, scarfs and gloves –definitely not if you’ve knit them yourself!

Julie Jaeken, owner of Julija’s Shop in Antwerp, designed 50 delicate, simple models of soft yarn for young & old, men & women. From hats, scarfs and arm warmers to poncho’s and basic sweaters.

195 x 240 mm | 128 pages | 33,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback with flaps all rights available

Julie Jaeken is the driving power behind the flourishing wool and textile shop Julija’s shop in Antwerp.

Jules & Julie German rights sold

Jules & Julie 3 all rights available

Jules & Julie for Young and Old German rights sold

Knitting for Young and Old all rights available

Jules & Julie 4 all rights available

I Knit, You Knit, We Knit

12 wooly projects to keep warm

Maartje Bos

A new book for beginning and advanced knitters

With simple and more challenging patterns

With patterns for hats, scarfs, turtlenecks, socks, sweaters and cardigans

Every project in this books offers a new challenge for knitters. A challenge that will result in a finished product to be proud of. More and more people have started knitting again. And after a scarf and a hat, it is high time for a selfknitted sweater or self-knitted socks. For every piece of clothing there is an easy and somewhat harder variant that has a more challenging stitch or more complex model. Maartje also explains how you can improve your technique and can achieve a whole other look by making some small changes.

Most techniques and stitches have QR codes that link to clips on the internet. Maartje also shows you how you can make your garderobe more sustainable by using nice and qualitative yarns.

190 x 250 mm | 144 pages | 20,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback with flaps all rights available

Maartje Bos developed her knitting skills in Ireland, where she lived with her family for some years. That’s where she learned new techniques like, top-down, brioche and cable knitting, and her first pair of socks were knitted in Dublin. Back in The Netherlands she designed knitting patterns for, among others, Let’s Get magazine and KOEL Magazine. She teaches workshops in knitting techniques all over The Netherlands.

Christel’s Favourites

The most fun collection of crocheted amigurumi

Christel Krukkert

By the successful crocheter Christel Krukkert, who’s books have sold more than 200,000 copies

Her most fun creatures collected in this new book

All amigurumi have been re-crocheted with the newest yarns

From her collection of more than 25 books, Christel Krukkert has made a selection of her most fun and beautiful amigurumi and combined them in this colourful compilation book. She re-crocheted her cutest camel, her softest sheep, her happiest frog, het most loyal dog, her most colourful peacock, her goofiest monkey and many other favourites with the newest yarns. You also find new amigurumi in this book, such as a cheerful lama, a cocky crab, a crazy mouse and a cute ladybug.

Crocheting Forest Animals all rights available

200 x 200 mm | 144 pages | 36,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available

All together, the book contains over twenty cheerful and cute amigurumi.

Crocheting a Nativity Scene German rights sold

Christel Krukkert is the successful author of more than 25 crocheting books. Her amigurumi are terrifically popular. She’s active on Instagram, Facebook and on her website www.christelkrukkert.nl. Christel has more than 30,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram.

30,000 copies sold

Crafts & creativity

I Love series

Fran Vanseveren

195 x 225 mm | 128 pages all rights available

How

Do You Do (It?)

Noëlle As & Lea Pauw

195 x 240 mm | 144 pages all rights available

100,000 copies sold

200 series

Evelien Cabie

215 x 270 mm | ca. 120 pages

French and German rights sold

600,000 copies sold

Cute Baby Clothes

Deborah van der Leijgraaf

200 x 230 mm | 128 pages all rights available

The Bucketlist Book series

Elise De Rijck

170 x 210 mm | ca. 128 pages

Several titles: German, Romanian and Finnish (etc.) rights sold