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  • Het geduld van de bloemen
    Het geduld van de bloemen
    The Patience of Flowers
    His calmly crafted sentences, when read closely or reread, reveal something truly spectacular.
    NRC

     In Stefan Brijs' latest book, ‘The Patience of Flowers’, he once again takes the reader to Andalusia. As the climate becomes increasingly erratic, he observes the beauty and vulnerability of nature with a pen that is as sharp as it is poetic – both deeply empathetic and strikingly precise.

  • Cover De Maas
    Cover De Maas
    The Meuse
    The very first biography of the river
    VRT

    The Meuse, the river of nearly 1,000 kilometres that flows through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, is a source of life, home to distinctive fauna and flora. Beyond that, it also shapes the landscape, serves as an archaeological site, a place of worship, a historical crossroads, a political boundary, an economic lifeline, a strategic military axis, and a muse for artists. For millennia, peoples have settled along its banks, learning to cope with the Meuse’s capricious floods.

  • Een vlam Tasmaanse tijgers
    Een vlam Tasmaanse tijgers
    A Flame of Thylacines
    For what a gifted (nature) writer she is.
    De Groene Amsterdammer

    In her highly anticipated second prose work, award-winning author Charlotte Van den Broeck explores the lost Tasmanian tiger’s legacy. Drawing on the tragic ecological history of the Tasmanian tiger, she reflects on loss, on hope in times of climate crisis, and the destructive and restorative powers of stories.

  • Nature Starts Here
    Nature Starts Here
    Nature Starts Here
    … mini celebrations of the wonders of nature
    De Morgen

    In her latest book, Caro Van Thuyne draws on her unique voice to address another theme that’s close to her heart: the natural world. Some time ago, Caro withdrew from hectic urban life and moved to Houtland, near the Flemish coast. There she lives and writes surrounded by nature.