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This page of Dutch Non-Fiction presents a selection of books recently published in the Netherlands. Our aim is to showcase the most striking non-fiction from the Netherlands. Most titles have been published recently and have done very well in terms of reviews, sales and awards or nominations. We highly recommend the titles on this page, and would be happy to give further advice on noteworthy and interesting books for your publishing list. For more information please contact non-fiction specialist, Leonoor Broeder.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

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A powerful warning against the rise of authoritarian political leaders.

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Martijn Prins

Absolute democratie. Kroniek van een aangekondigde afrekening

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

Absolute Democracy: Chronicle of a Foretold Reckoning

Niels Springveld

'Autism: A Biography' is a standard work for those looking to gain a deep understanding of attitudes toward autism.

You won’t find anything more comprehensive or detailed book on autism than Niels Springveld’s Autism: A Biography [Rated: 5 stars]

A multifaceted standard work on the history of autism.

Hayo Deinum

Autisme: Een biografie

Autism has become an everyday term. Many people think they know what autism means... more or less. And just like other terms relating to psychological disorders, such as narcissism and schizophrenia, it’s often misused. Things were very different in the past. Back when the phenomenon was unknown, and even after the word itself had been coined, the various symptoms were considered individually rather than as part of a bigger whole. The picture became clearer only when doctors began to connect the dots.

Autism: A Biography

Marietje Schaake

An incredibly powerful call to action.

Not against AI, but in favour of democracy. 'Code of Power' is a call for a future in which tech serves the interests of society at large, not those of private empires.

No to the AI hype, yes to democratic control of AI. Marietje Schaake is here to show us the way.

If you care about freedom, privacy and democracy, read this book. Marietje Schaake demonstrates how we can control AI rather than let it control us.

An urgent, informative and activist pamphlet on the risks of AI, full of sound ideas for how Europe can counter the threats it poses.

Anna de Roest

De machtscode

Expectations for AI are high, very high. Within a few years, it has taken hold of our lives and is now used in government, the military, healthcare and education – or to find answers to random questions on countless subjects. At the same time, concerns about the risks loom equally large in all sections of society in which the use of AI is already an everyday reality.

Code of Power: Why the Hidden Power Struggle behind AI puts Democracy at Risk

Cees Nooteboom

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

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

Bart Kraamer

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

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

Diaries 1996-2006

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Dorien de Wit

Dorien De Wit lets us feel our own fear of change and our powerlessness to hold on to what exists.

A personal and poetic exploration of universal feelings of fear of the unknown, change, travel, homesickness, and belonging.

Heim. Of het verhaal van mijn duizeligheid

Almost nobody is immune to fear. Fear is an expression of your vulnerability in a vast, uncontrollable world. Fear has a function. It is an evolutionary adaptation that governs how you act when faced with danger and is part of a healthy survival mechanism. But fear can also manifest itself in the absence of obvious dangers, holding you in its grip as you seek to avoid all manner of imagined threats.

Home: Or the Story of my Dizziness

Lodewijk van Oord

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

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

Staat van verbeelding. Een historische reis door Palestina-Israël

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

State of Imagination: A Historical Journey through Palestine-Israel

Romke van de Kaa

‘The wild walnut was domesticated as early as 7,000 years ago, long before horses and chickens. Horses and chickens became domestic animals; the walnut became a domestic nut.’

De reis van de walnoot

Romke van de Kaa’s huge garden contains several walnut trees. Van de Kaa, horticulturalist and nature writer, has been fascinated by the tree and its fruits his entire life. He is by now one of the leading authorities on walnuts. He knows everything about the ways in which the wood and fruits can be used, yet the origin of the plant itself has always remained a mystery. Many countries and regions claim to be the cradle of the walnut but are unable to prove it. Is the plant from Central Asia, Persia, Georgia, Afghanistan or North America?

The Journey of the Walnut

Philip Dröge

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

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

Marianne Schönbach

De tijdreiziger. Een wereldreis naar de verhalen van onze tijd

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

The Time Traveller

Our aim is to showcase the best non-fiction titles from the Netherlands. Most titles have been published recently and have done very well in terms of reviews, sales and awards or nominations. Equally important is the question: ‘Does it travel?’ We work with an advisory panel, which gives us recommendations and input on the best new non-fiction. The panel consists of:<ul><li>Daphne ter Bals</li><li>Roline Redmond</li><li>Rosa Groen</li><li>Casper Luckerhof</li></ul>

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