Win 50 books
It's the season of giving and we're finishing strong with this end-of-year giveaway!
What will be our #1 bestseller this year?*
Deadline:
23:59 on December 31st, 2025.
Please note that we cannot ship a buttload of books to your home. In-store pick up only.
*= sold in your favorite De Vries Van Stockum bookshop in 2025
How it works
Fill in our giveaway form
Fill in the form via this link (click here, opens in a new window).
1. Your answer goes onder 'Welk boek wordt het bestverkochte boek van het jaar 2025 in uw voorkeurswinkel?'
'in uw voorkeurswinkel' means 'in your favorite bookstore'. This means that your answer will relate to that particular store. So, if your favorite bookstore is The English Bookstore, the question is "What will be our #1 bestseller in The English Bookstore in 2025?"
2. Select your favorite bookstore under 'Mijn voorkeurswinkel'
These are your options: The English Bookstore (Passage 24, The Hague) | Winkel Den Haag (Passage 11) | Winkel Haarlem
Please note that you must be able to pick up the prize from that shop. We don't recommend picking up the prize by bike, unless you have a bakfiets. We cannot send 50 books to your home address.
3. Enter your email address under 'Uw e-mailadres:'
If you already receive our newsletter OR if you'd like to receive our newsletter, check the box below.
4. Click 'Verstuur' to enter the draw**.
**= Entering this give away implies that you agree to our terms and conditions. You can find a summary of those, plus a link to the full text at the bottom of this page.
Countdown
That's it! We will notify the winner in the first week of January.
We will randomly select a winner among the correct answers in the first week of 2025. We will contact the winner before januari 7th via the emailaddress you used for the draw.
If the winner doesn't respond within 5 business days, we will select a new winner. If you havent heard from us by January 15th you can safely (and sadly) assume that you didnt win. Do keep an eye on your spambox, though. Or add us to your address book: passage@devriesvanstockum.nl.
Terms and conditions
Participating in this giveaway implies acceptance of the general terms and conditions. You can review those right here.
A few highlights:
✔ The winner is expected to pick up the prize in The English Bookstore. We cannot send the 50 books to your address - not even if you offer to pay for shipping costs yourself, because this giveaway is meant as a treat for customers of our physical stores.
✔ We take a photo of the winner and their prize during pick up, to post on social media.
✔ The winner will receive an e-mail in the first week of January
✔ If the winner is unable to reply within 5 business days, the offer expires and we will pick a new winner
✔ The prize is a random selection by us of 50 books. In other words: you can't choose fifty books yourself.
These were the Top 10 bestsellers of The English Bookstore in 2024: