At the End of the War Bert Natter
One of the most astonishing novels of the year
Rights sold: Bonnier (Norway), Berlin Verlag (Germany), Summit/Simon & Schuster (World English), Gutkind (Denmark), Foksal (Poland), Janet 45 (Bulgaria)
Shortlist Boekenbon Literature Prize
SS-staff is in the midst of organising a gala to honour Hitler’s birthday in a concentration camp, even though most of them are very well aware that the Russians are closing in on them fast and that they will probably have to evacuate the camp within the next few days, if not hours Eleven-year-old Ernst, son of SSObersturmführer Karl Zehlendorf, goes missing near the camp. His brother Reinhart claims to have left him on the shore of the treacherously deep lake, where they had been fishing Surely, he couldn’t have fallen into the water? While everyone in the camp realizes that the war is nearing its end, Karl sets out to find his son.
‘At the End of the War is a mesmerizing book – relentless prose that grabs you by the throat. Once you start reading, you won’t stop’ – de Volkskrant
‘Daring, compelling, gruesome, and nearly impossible to put down. A phenomenal novel ’ – Het Parool, Book of the Month
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bert Natter (1968) made his debut in 2008 with the novel Desire Has Touched Us, which was awarded the Selexyz Debut Prize and the Lucy B en C W van der Hoogt Prize In 2015, Remington (longlisted for the Libris Literature Prize) and Goldberg (shortlisted for the ECI Literature Prize) were published, followed in 2018 by They Will Think We Are Angels and in 2022 the non-fiction book Living With Lidewij
NOVEL
634 pages January 2025 English sample
Angel of the Blue City - Carmen van Geffen
Historical fiction set during one of Europe’s most devastating epidemics
HISTORICAL NOVEL
365 pages October 2025 English sample
It’s May 1866 and cholera has broken out on the emigrant ship Agnes The ship is forced to drop anchor near Antwerp, where temporary shelters have been set up to prevent the disease from reaching the city These efforts turn out to be in vain though, and the blue death rages through the streets with terrifying speed There have been other epidemics before, but this time wealthy citizens are affected too Nurse Hélène Cauwelaert and Dr Louis Stradling board the infected ship, at the beginning of what will prove to be a long summer working together to combat the outbreak. However, it soon becomes clear that they have conflicting views on how to tackle the problem, and what follows is a fierce battle centred on the fragile boundaries separating care and power, faith and knowledge.
Carmen van Geffen (1968) is a Dutch writer and artist who lives and works in Flanders. In 2023, she debuted with the critically acclaimed novel Heirloom.
The Summer of '47 - Barry Smit
Evil is a choice
In 1939, Ben Meyer moves from Amsterdam to Berlin to work in the flourishing German film industry Shortly afterwards, he enlists in the Waffen SS and leaves for the Eastern Front as a cameraman But by the time the war ends, he’s a wanted man and unable to return to the Netherlands, so he settles just across the border in Walbeck (Germany) with his new love Then, in the summer of 1947, Ben’s brother Leo travels with his young family to Germany to track down the black sheep of the family They haven't seen each other for eight years Will anything remain of the family bond? And how will Leo's brother look back on the choices he made?
Barry Smit (1974) has written six novels to date. In 2018, he received the Victoriefonds Culture Prize for Literature.
NOVEL
174 pages February 2025 English sample in prep.
Jojanneke van den Berge
NOVEL
364 pages
October 2025
English sample in prep
After being ‘ditched’ as part of a hazing ritual, Eline Balfour finds herself abandoned with her pants around her knees, along with her fellow pledges – a necessary step to becoming a member of the UVSV, a Utrecht University student society exclusively for women. Together with her new friend Binkie, she quickly starts to feel at home in her sorority and the nice house she shares with some extremely strongwilled girls and a dog that eats tampons That is, until she meets David, a charming young man struggling with a secret and the high expectations of the prestigious USC, the Utrecht Student Corps. Through him, Eline is exposed to the dark side of fraternity life In a world where status and solidarity go hand in hand with a set of strict unwritten rules, Uf shows what it means to remain true to yourself within a system that doesn't always make it easy.
‘Eline Balfour's life was not perfect, and her surname certainly wasn't, but her earliest memories were. Red boots, hair in two ponytails, always ready to do a cartwheel. Her mother with her arms spread wide. Air that smelled of roses and manure The village in Groningen, for which her parents had once left the big city, was close enough to village Haren and far enough from the mega stables, the loitering youths and the smell of the countryside to be the romantic rural backdrop against which, as a prosperous but free spirit, you could shape your life with good manners ’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jojanneke van den Berge (1980) is a journalist, presenter and documentary filmmaker Uf is her debut novel
The Race for the Majorana particle Gerard Janssen
On the human beings behind the new developments in quantum computing. Explains in laymen’s terms how quantum computing works
NON-FICTION/ MODERN SCIENCE
224 pages September 2025
English sample, synopsis and chapter outline
The Majorana particle has a mythical status The particle is said to make the construction of a quantum computer possible A machine that calculates ‘like God’ and that will help us rethink our understanding of the world. No wonder a global battle erupted to prove the particle's existence
The Race for the Majorana particle follows quantum scientist Leo Kouwenhoven, a pioneer in the race to build the ultimate quantum computer With billion-dollar investments and an intense international competition, scientists and companies are striving to create a machine capable of solving complex problems that even the most powerful supercomputers cannot handle But money, geopolitical power, pioneering work, and scientific integrity are at odds This book is a thrilling story about the rise and fall of a great scientist and the ruthless battle for world dominance.
‘On 25 March 1938, Majorana was in the port of Palermo waiting for the boat to Naples when he vanished without a trace. Did Majorana jump from the ship in the darkness of night? Did he commit suicide? Did he retire to a monastery? Or was he abducted by the Nazis? It is worth mentioning that he had withdrawn a large sum of money just before his disappearance Did he perhaps leave for South America?’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gerard Janssen (1967) studied Applied Physics in Delft. He writes for the magazine Vrij Nederland and published Hackers in 2022, an in-depth, long-term research into the world of hackers, of which documentary rights have been sold to producer Submarine.
Am I Not Enough? Peter Henk Steenhuis
IKEA’s top woman’s account of her husband’s triple addiction
‘In Am I Not Enough Liesbeth speaks to every daughter: your worth is never defined by another’s mistakes’ - Esther Perel (Author)
Liesbeth Dillen was once IKEA's golden girl, on the brink of becoming the first female CEO of IKEA Netherlands For decades now, she has given keynote speeches all over the world as a champion of female independence in the workplace. But behind the professional exterior, a whole other Liesbeth once existed –one who believed she was happily married until she discovered that her husband had a triple addiction: alcohol, pornography and prostitutes. Their relationship turned out to be built on a series of cunning lies, humiliation, and manipulation
In Am I Not Enough?, Liesbeth tells her story: how the man of her dreams became the man of her nightmares, how her sense of self-worth and femininity were smashed to pieces, and how she made it out the other side thanks to therapy and the life lessons she learned at IKEA. The question at the heart of this book is: how could a strong female role model in the international business world turn out to be such a completely different person outside of work? But above all, Am I Not Enough? is a story of hope that recounts how one woman rediscovered her confidence, her self-love and her voice
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Henk Steenhuis (1969) is the philosophy editor of the daily newspaper Trouw. He has previously published books such as The Philosophy of Looking, The Man with the Hammer and Gone into Hiding as Anne Frank.
NON-FICTION
384 pages October 2022 English sample
Across the Divide - Maurits Chabot
Stories about unlikely friendships
Rights sold: August Books (World English)
A Hutu and a Tutsi in Rwanda An American police officer and a bank robber An Israeli and a Palestinian girl A neoNazi and a member of the queer community These are friendships between people who, at first glance, seem destined to be enemies. In Across the Divide, Maurits Chabot (1992) takes his readers on a journalistic quest into the heart of Rwanda, along the checkpoints of the IsraelPalestine border, inside prisons of the US and art galleries in Oslo While travelling through regions of conflict and war, he investigates how people reconciled Is there any limit to empathy? What does it take to have friendships emerge from dramatic conflicts? And what is there for others to learn from their stories of hope and resilience?
Blood, Sweat and Tears - Ruben Verwaal
A history of the fluid body
Rights sold: August Books (World English)
The human body leaks. It sweats, spits, pees, poops, bleeds and squirts. It is precisely this fluidity that is essential to our life and health. Without saliva, we cannot swallow and digest our food. Without clotting blood no healing wounds. Without vaginal fluid and sperm no reproduction. Yet we have a problematic relationship with our body fluids: we quickly find pus, poo and snot dirty and unhygienic. But this has not always been the case.
NON-FICTION
303 pages (b&w ill.)
April 2023 English sample
Over 17.500 copies sold!
Own Planet First Roxane van Iperen
This is not a climate essay. Those who do not believe that climate change and global warming will have serious consequences within thirty years, do not need to delve into the question of how we can turn the tide. This essay focuses on the question: is our system capable of solving this problem? The democratic constitutional state is seen in the West as the best form to guarantee the wellbeing of citizens, but an answer to the greatest threat of all hardly materializes. How is that possible, and: is there a way to change that within the system?
‘A scathing diagnosis (...) Van Iperen is an infectious thinker and rightly refuses to come up with actual solutions; that is not what an essay is for. That is why this book is also an original addition to the series of recent critiques of populism by, for example, Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum.’ - Vrij Nederland
‘Own Planet First is a powerful and urgent essay.’ - NRC
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roxane van Iperen (1976) is a writer, publicist and lawyer. Her previous books include Scum of the Earth, The High Nest (which has sold more than 200,000 copies and was published in fourteen different countries) and the essay Putting Yourself First. In 2021 she wrote The Genocide Fax, an essay commissioned for Dutch Book Week, and gave the Fourth of May lecture on National Remembrance Day, the annual observance in honour of those who lost their lives during World War II Next year she will write the official Essay for the Month of Philosophy
ESSAY/ SOCIETY
160 pages May 2025 English sample
NOVEL
206 pages June 2024
Full German translation; English sample and synopsis
Among People - Mathijs Deen
Farmer's son is seeking woman. Lives alone. 200 acres.
Rights sold: mare Verlag (Germany)
Jan has lived alone for years since the sudden deaths of his parents The heir to a beautiful farm close to the North Sea, he cannot escape the loneliness that awaits him each day when the farm work is done. He decides to place a personal ad. He’s searching for a woman for conversation, for sex, and – if he’s lucky – even for love and a child The woman who answers, however, has plans of her own She wants nothing more than a simple life in a quiet place close to the sea For her, Jan’s farm offers an escape from the busy city and from a reckoning with her past. And when she discovers that she can see the sea from the farmhouse loft, she makes up her mind to live there –to live there no matter what
‘Stylistically brilliant.’ - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
The Prayer of Jonathan Simmers - Martijn Couwenhoven
A short, sensitive novel about complex family ties
When Jonathan Simmers meets his father again after an absence of ten years, the man hands him the urn containing his mother’s ashes. In the week that follows, his father is eager to rekindle their relationship, while Jonathan wonders why he should suddenly trust the man who was never there Meanwhile, he cares for his half-sister, Lieke, who feels restless about her current life and seems to lose it from time to time Seeking help, Jonathan turns to his mother - little prayers for direction and clarity, for himself, for Lieke.
The Prayer of Jonathan Simmers is a moving novel about trying to get a grip on time, a story about connecting the present and the past, of life and death
‘Understated feel-good melancholy’ - VPRO Gids
NOVEL
187 pages
September 2023
English sample
GRAPHIC NOVEL
GRAPHIC
Eternally Yours - Youp van 't Hek
Illustrated by Marije Tolman
Following their successful handbook for retirees, Oceans of Time (35,000 copies sold), Youp van 't Hek (1954) and illustrator Marije Tolman (1976) now present Eternally Yours, a book full of cheerful drawings, useful tips, and light-hearted anecdotes about marriage victims There is much to learn from Youp's often true stories and Marije's razor-sharp observations And hopefully there will also be hearty laughter about romantic infatuation, the distressing routine, and the often liberating divorce, but also about the dashing old folks who have kept it up wonderfully for fifty years or more Everything is covered extensively in this handbook for both beginners and advanced learners
CHILDREN'S BOOK
Pier Piet Sacks a Puitcase - Eva Posthuma de Boer
Illustrated by Henk Schiffmacher
At first glance, Pier Piet seems like a very ordinary boy who experiences very ordinary things. But Pier Piet sees those very ordinary things just a little differently. And so there is always something to do. With his uncle Rinus, he invents new days because what is Tues? Or Wednes? Or Satur? He calls his neighbor Sam “SamSam”, so that they both have double names. Then Pier Piet and Sam Sam write everything down twice in chalk on the sidewalk Pier Piet gets a magic wand from his grandfather, which he uses to make the pipe stems disappear And Doctor Pooh comes to the rescue when Pier Piet dreams that he has the longest toes in the world With Pier Piet, Eva Posthuma de Boer (1971) has added an unforgettable character to children's literature, beautifully illustrated by tattoo king Henk Schiffmacher (1952)
CHILDREN'S