Overview

The pen is mightier than the sword.' Is that actually true? What can the word achieve against the bullet? The Dutch approach vs the Russian.

4 printruns within 6 weeks. Choke Valley - on the origin of stories in the death valley of Western Africa, where humans and animals died en mass overnight in August 1986.

An engrossing fusion of history and travel writing, in which the pureblood horse ends up revealing the human shortcomings.

Travelogue on race, culture and identity - a long the lines of a stuffed black man in a Spanish museum - El Negro. Golden Owl Literature Prize 2005.

A pilgrimage by a non-believer. In Ararat Frank Westerman undertakes a journey along the fault-line between religion and science, mythology and geology.

Engineers of the Soul is the riveting story of two journeys - one literal, one imaginary - through contemporary Russia and through Soviet-era literature.

New edition of Franks modern classic De graanrepubliek: the European story of the past century, through the lens of its farmers.