Nominated for the Young Jury Debut Prize

For Fans Of The Days of Bluegrass Love by Edward van de Vendel, Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chamber and Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

While 19-year-old Alec studies for his final exams after a difficult school career, his plodding existence is shaken by the arrival of a new classmate. Non-conformist Björn triggers feelings in him that he has always managed to hide up until now. Even from himself.

Unwittingly, he is drawn into a search for his true identity, and for the first time he has to face what he has never dared to acknowledge. But just as his coveted diploma is within his grasp, and with it a ticket to the future, Björn suddenly disappears…

‘When I read Stefan’s novel, I immediately realised I wanted to film this story. The Boy Who Jumped Off the Cliff and Landed Softly is a beautifully crafted and universal story that has the power to hit right in the heart and reach a broad audience. Our company Willy Waltz International can’t wait to make a beautiful series out of this book. Work on the development has already started.’ – Norbert ter Hall is a prize winning filmmaker known for the films Mi Vida (2019), The Promise of Pisa (2019) and the tv-series A’dam & E.V.A. The latter is being adopted into an English spoken version for American audiences by NBC.

‘Brokeback Mountain in the Dutch polder. I read it in one sitting.’ – Michel van Egmond, Dutch bestselling author and journalist

Winner of De Kleine Cervantes 2023

The author is a researcher for the Dutch National Holocaust Museum

Rosie is a nanny who lives with her parents in Amsterdam-Oost, a lively Jewish neighbourhood. She is in love with her brother’s best friend. Kaat studies law and is a member of the Amsterdam Student Union. She worries about her rich, cold parents in Utrecht, to whom she is a constant disappointment.

When the war breaks out, Rosie faces a difficult choice: will she stay with her family, or will she help the children of the Jews detained in the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a theatre used as a deportation centre by the Nazi occupiers? Kaat comes into contact with a student group, later known as the Utrecht Children’s Committee, through which she meets Josephine.

Each in their own way, the three young women become involved in the smuggling of Jewish children. What follows is a long and dangerous journey that begins at a nursery on the Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam.

‘Name No One is an impressive and intriguing book, based on thorough research, that despite its length you finish whilst holding your breath, even as an adult. And that immediately makes you wonder: what would I have done myself?’ – Nederlands Dagblad

‘An impressive story about surviving, grief, hope, courage and friendship, in a smooth writing style for adults, and a must-read for young adults.’ – NBD Biblion

10.500 copies sold in the Netherlands

Shortlisted for the Thea Beckmann Prize 2019 & De Kleine Cervantes 2020

Nominated for the German Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and Gustav Heinemann Friedenspreis 2021

Based on the life of Haarlem-born resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen

Freddie is only fourteen when World War II breaks out. During the war, her mother takes in Jews who have fled Hitler’s Germany. In 1941, Freddie and her older sister are asked to participate in the armed resistance. The girls lure high-ranking Nazis into the forest, where they are killed by fellow resistance fighters. The sisters are then given their own pistols, and Freddie finds herself oscillating between fear and courage, doubt and pride. Amid all this, Freddie has to deal with the frustrations of being a teenager in love. She adores her boyfriend Peter but he struggles with her role as a resistance fighter, even though he has no idea what the nature of her resistance work is. But Freddie refuses to stand by helplessly and takes greater and greater risks. The danger of betrayal mounts. Who can she still trust? Then she makes a shocking discovery…

This poignant story about betrayal and trust, loyalty and love, is based on the life of the Netherlands’ youngest female resistance fighter, Haarlem-born Freddie Oversteegen, who, together with her sister Truus, worked for the resistance group whose later members included Hannie Schaft. Freddie passed away on 5 September 2018, a day before her 93rd birthday.

‘The Girl with the Braids tells her gripping story: it is a cinematic book based on true events […] I have never read such a raw account of the Dutch resistance in a YA-novel.’ – Bas Maliepaard, Trouw

All the answers to your questions about sleep

With tips for falling asleep or getting through the day after a sleepless night

Tom van Dommelen always sleeps like a log. But for the past few days, something strange has been happening: suddenly, he is having trouble falling asleep. And since he has not slept for three nights now, his head feels a bit funny. He stops paying attention in class and does not feel like doing anything. Luckily, his mother is an inventor and builds a super sleep machine. Will she be able to discover why Tom is finding it so difficult to fall asleep? And more importantly, will he find his way back to the land of sleep?