Singel Uitgeverijen is a major
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publishing group, headquartered in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
. Its subsidiaries are
Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Nijgh & Van Ditmar is a Dutch publishing company, founded in 1837. In 2014 it was acquired by Singel Uitgeverijen.
History
The company was founded in 1837 in Rotterdam
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, ,
De Arbeiderspers
De Arbeiderspers is a Dutch publishing company, started as a socialist enterprise. The name means 'The Workers' Press'.
History
The company was started in 1929 as a combination of the publishing firm N.V. Ontwikkeling and the Dutch Social Dem ...
, Athenaeum, Polak & Van Gennep, De Geus, and Volt.
Conserve
Conserve, a former publishing house that merged into Singel on 1 January 2019,
is now an imprint. Conserve books are published as De Geus-Conserve or Volt-Conserve.
Conserve (
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: "Uitgeverij Conserve") was established as a
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publishing organization in 1983 in
Schoorl
Schoorl is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 8 km northwest of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Schoorl was also a municipality of its own.
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by Kees de Bakker. The company specialised in publishing
historical novels
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ...
.
Cynthia McLeod
Cynthia Henri McLeod (née Ferrier; born 4 October 1936) is a Surinamese novelist known for her historic novels and whose debut novel instantly made her one of the most prominent authors of Suriname.
Background
McLeod was born in Paramaribo as C ...
was one of the authors published by Conserve. Publications include ''
Lord of Formosa
''Lord of Formosa'' ( nl, Formosa voorgoed verloren; historische roman over de VOC op Taiwan; "Formosa lost forever; historical novel about the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan") is a 2018 English-language historical novel by Dutch author Joyce B ...
''.
Brave New Books
Brave New Books is Singel's platform for self-publication, in collaboration with
Bol.com.
References
External links
Conserve{{in lang, nl
Book publishing companies of the Netherlands