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The Folding Star

The Folding Star
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): Flanders
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Edward Manners – thirty three and disaffected – escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s...

The Forgotten Daughter

The Forgotten Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): England, Belgium
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The Forgotten Daughter by Mary Wood is the gripping first book in The Girls Who Went To War series. From a tender age, Flora felt unloved and unwanted by her parents, but she finds safety in the arms of...

The Girl in the Blue Beret

The Girl in the Blue Beret
  • Author(s): Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Location(s): Belgium, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II and later

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later,...

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Liège, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...

The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz
  • Author(s): Dorothy Mack
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): early 1800s

When her gambling father dies, young Adrienne Castle must find a way to support her family. In desperation, she visits a gaming house in disguise, intent on winning back some of her father’s lost fortune using her skill at...

The Man With No Face

The Man With No Face
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

Beware: this is a revised edition of an earlier work by the author. Can evil be unmasked before it’s too late . . . ? A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR 1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to...

The Omega Factor

The Omega Factor
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Ghent
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’...

The Photographer of the Lost

The Photographer of the Lost
  • Author(s): Caroline Scott
  • Location(s): France, Flanders, Ypres
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 onwards

1921 In the aftermath of war, everyone is searching for answers. Edie’s husband Francis never came home and was declared ‘missing, believed killed’. But when she receives a mysterious photograph of him in the post, hope flares and she...

The Ravi Lancers

The Ravi Lancers
  • Author(s): John Masters
  • Location(s): Flanders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

January, 1914. They had suffered at the hands of the Raj; now they were being asked to die in its name… Reinforcing all that Prince Krishna Ram admires about Britain, in Warren Bateman it seems the Ravi Lancers have...

The Remembered Soldier

The Remembered Soldier
  • Author(s): Anjet Daanje, David McKay (Translator)
  • Location(s): Flanders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Romance
  • Era(s): 1922

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless...

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