It's that time of the year again. No, not Christmas, but the annual Book Week. The theme of the 89th edition of the book festival is "With Us in the Family. Diving into the books this coming week and staying a little bit in the theme? These family titles will have you devouring them in no time.
Book Week was created in 1932 to inspire as many people as possible to buy books. Every year a theme is associated with this week and this year it carries the theme ''With us in the family.'' Organization CPNB, which is committed to enriching people's lives with reading: ''Everyone is part of a family. Everything is family, although sometimes family is not everything and you can also lose each other. Think of family and the stories come loose. Literature is therefore full of family stories''. These books fit perfectly with the 89th edition of Book Week.
The Camino won the NS Audience Award in 2023. The story is about 44-year-old chocolatier Lotte Bonnet who has lived happily in South Limburg for years with her husband Emil, a former refugee from Bosnia. When her husband unexpectedly commits suicide while walking the Camino and Lotte is left distraught. When she travels to Bosnia 11 months later to scatter his ashes, Lotte discovers that Emil has lied about his identity. She engages a Sarajevo lawyer to investigate his past, and he makes a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Lotte sets out to walk the Camino herself, exactly according to Emil's route and schedule. She wants to find out what drove him to his desperate act. But someone is following her, someone who does not want her to discover the truth.
Early last century, a world-famous dancer on the Dutch coast experiences the biggest upheaval of her life
American pioneer of modern dance Isadora Duncan defies the norms and laws of her time, both in her personal life and in her art. For the first time in history, she dances barefoot and in loose robes, inspired by the movements of nature.
When she becomes pregnant by a married man, she retires for several months in 1906 to a villa in the dunes of Noordwijk aan Zee. Hopefully unseen by the paparazzi, she wants to have her first child here in the Netherlands. As an unmarried woman, Isadora puts everything on the line. She does so deliberately. She believes a woman should be able to have children as she wishes, and she chooses British stage designer Edward Gordon Craig out of full conviction. She is free, yet gets caught up in her obsession with this man.
Gripping novel about a harmonious family during the war years, largely true story. When World War II breaks out, the daughters of engineer Tjalling Idsinga and Jewish violinist Tsinegolde Dobrowitz are 8, 7 and 5 years old, respectively. Their lives consist of school, music, crafts and coddling turtles. When people in hiding come to live in their house and more and more must be kept secret, the harsh, gruesome reality gradually penetrates the children. Tsinegolde's Man is a moving, poignant war novel told from the perspective of three girls and especially of Chaja, the youngest, largely based on the author's childhood.
In the last year and a half of his life, Peter R. de Vries secretly kept a logbook. From the day he comes into contact with the star witness in the Marengo trial to the day of the attempt on his life (July 6, 2021), he meticulously, and at times humorously, reports on his role as Nabil B's confidant. He tells about his role in the defense team he formed with lawyers Peter Schouten and Onno de Jong, and the forces he was confronted with: the disconcerting way in which the Public Prosecutor's Office tried to thwart the defense team and the family of the key witness, and the struggles with lawyers and certain "friends of the media. The log features Peter R., the public personality and crime-re porter, the inspired fighter for justice. In parallel, we read about family man Peter, concerned father to his daughter and son, grandfather to his grandchildren, in the moving and poignant diary excerpts of son Royce de Vries (1989), who makes his debut as a writer with this book.
When Alkmaar is attacked for the umpteenth time, Katelijne tries to protect her brewery at all costs from the brutal violence of the West Frisians. She hopes that her secret love, King William II, can help by granting Alkmaar city rights. However, she faces an entirely different problem when she turns out to be pregnant by him....
King William is embroiled in a power struggle and he is doing everything he can to subjugate the West Frisians. Meanwhile, he becomes the father of two sons: the legitimate Floris and the bastard Alard.
After William's death, Floris feels obliged to finish his father's work, and Alard yearns for recognition from the burial family. Floris's aunt, Aleid of Holland, meanwhile uses all her power to keep the young men's lives strictly separate. When fate does bring them together, they join forces to battle their enemies and save the family honor.
With Bloodline, Simone van der Vlugt has written a beautiful story about power, love and family ties. Like no other she knows how to depict the lives of the highest circles and those of the common people. The Middle Ages come closer than ever.
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