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Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Maia and What Matters

Maia and What Matters
  • Author(s): Tine Mortier, David Colmer (Translator), Kaatje Vermeire (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Belgium
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Maia is an impatient little scamp. When something pops into her head, she wants it. Now! Right this minute! Her grandma’s just the same and they get along like a house on fire. One day Grandma falls ill and...

On Black Sisters’ Street

On Black Sisters’ Street
  • Author(s): Chika Unigwe
  • Location(s): Antwerp
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Permafrost

Permafrost
  • Author(s): Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia, Brussels
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a...

Resistance

Resistance
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): Belgium
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. By the end of 1943, the tiny room has housed dozens of Allied airmen, soldiers and other...

Slightly Sinful

Slightly Sinful
  • Author(s): Mary Balogh
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Meet the Bedwyns–six brothers and sisters–men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality….Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle...

The Abyss

The Abyss
  • Author(s): Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Location(s): Bruges
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

The Bridge of Years

The Bridge of Years
  • Author(s): May Sarton
  • Location(s): Belgium
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton’s earliest and, some critics think, one of her best. It takes place during the years between the world wars and explores the life of a Belgian family, the...

The Car Share

The Car Share
  • Author(s): Zoe Brisby
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ninety-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s and a heartbroken young man end up sharing a ride to Brussels that changes their lives forever. When Alex pulls up to meet “Max”, he expects everything but a ninety-year-old lady who has her...

The Charlemagne Pursuit

The Charlemagne Pursuit
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Brussels, Aachen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military...

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