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Rembrandt’s Mirror

Rembrandt’s Mirror
  • Author(s): Kim Devereux
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 17t Century

A stunningly imagined debut novel about the turbulent world of the master painter Rembrandt and the three women who shaped his life, seen through the eyes of his last great love and muse – a lowly housemaid  “Hendrickje, a...

The Girl with the Red Hair

The Girl with the Red Hair
  • Author(s): Buzzy Jackson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Haarlem
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

1940, Amsterdam. You’re nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip...

The Words In My Hand

The Words In My Hand
  • Author(s): Guinevere Glasfurd
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

The Words in My Hand is the reimagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr Sergeant the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives – the Monsieur – Mr Sergeant...

This is Not a Love Story

This is Not a Love Story
  • Author(s): Keren David
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kitty dreams of a beautiful life, but that’s impossible in suburban London where her family is haunted by her father’s unexpected death. So when her mum suggests moving to Amsterdam to try a new life, Kitty doesn’t take much...

The Lover’s Portrait

The Lover’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary/WW2

When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam,...

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Author(s): Anne Frank
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time,...

Amsterdam Tales

Amsterdam Tales
  • Author(s): Paul Vincent
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city....

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city-pick Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes and Vicktor Schiferli
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Giddy Amsterdam, staid Amsterdam. Empress, fishwife, lady of the night. Hero, artist, traitor, beggar. Visionary, Calvinist and clown. It is that timeless humanity of which this city sings.

Death on the Canal

Death on the Canal
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In her latest case, Dutch detective Lotte Meerman finds herself faced with a moral dilemma – does she investigate the murder of a suspected drug dealer … or does she stay silent to ensure that another man, responsible for...

Girl Reading

Girl Reading
  • Author(s): Katie Ward
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in...

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