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As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
- Location(s): Antwerp, Brussels, Rome
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Sixteenth century Europe as depicted on Peter Bruegel’s canvasses. A street festival, skating, hunting in the snow are everyday life. Rucker tells the story of an artist, whose own life is little known. We follow the artist from the...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of a Belgium national hero, the famous General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels, is the eldest daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they...
- Location(s): Liège, Antwerp
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Post WW2
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later...
Bottoms up in Belgium: Seeking the High Points of the Low Lands
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
‘Brussels and all those Eurocrats on the gravy train? It’s just so boring. Why, you can’t even name ten famous Belgians!’ Until 1993, Alec had never been to Belgium, so it came as some surprise when in August that...
- Location(s): Bruges
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 13th Century
A masterful debut novel following a spirited young woman’s explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth-century Bruges. Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): early 2000s
Jack Christensen has everything he ever wanted. He’s a rising star in US Diplomacy, the youngest man to have been appointed as an Ambassador of the United States. A career diplomat who’s just been sent to a politically interesting...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Matilda, in Brussels, stumbles across a missing person’s case.
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Europea Halls. Only the select few have made it into these prestigious dorms in the capital of the EU, Brussels. When six best teenage friends get stalked by a serial killer, the campus is on high alert....
Gerard Philey’s Euro-Diary: Quest for a Life
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Brussels
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Era(s): 1990s
An outrageous and hilarious romp through the diary of a disillusioned West Midlands teacher turned Amsterdam adult shop manager and his gay German bestie, as they struggle with self-doubt, dodgy doings and dating! “Funny, sad, eye-openingly honest and far...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1917
In 1917, Evelyn Marche is just one of many women who has been widowed by the war. A British nurse trapped in German-occupied Brussels, she spends her days working at a hospital and her nights as a waitress in...
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