The Winter Book is the ideal gift to yourself and nearly everyone you know.

The Winter Book is a merry and modern version of a classic, with beautiful literary stories about winter, snow, ice and a tropical Christmas in South Africa. There are easy and tasty recipes for stews, pea soup and glühwein and other winter foods. For those in sunny places there will be a recipe for making ice. There are tips for the garden in wintertime. There are tips for outdoor ice skating, how to train your muscles and stamina for long races and how to stay warm on the ice. And there are tips for animals around the house in winter. On feeding birds and how to make a bird house. And Gerbrand Bakker made an etymological quiz for long winter nights with which he has much success at public readings.

Gerbrand Bakker wrote most of The Winter Book but he also invited others to contribute. It will feature stories from Tim Parks, Maarten ‘t Hart and Franca Treur and poetry by children’s books writer Ted van Lieshout and many others. His mother will write some of Gerbrand’s favorite winter recipes and his father will demonstrate how to make a proper bird house.

‘You can call him the Simon Carmiggelt of the winter landscape.’ – Nu.nl ****