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Code Name Kingfisher

Code Name Kingfisher
  • Author(s): Liz Kessler
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever… Holland, 1942. The world is at war...

Gerard Philey’s Euro-Diary: Quest for a Life

Gerard Philey’s Euro-Diary: Quest for a Life
  • Author(s): Brendan James
  • 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...

Looking for Chet Baker

Looking for Chet Baker
  • Author(s): Bill Moody
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Midwinter Break

Midwinter Break
  • Author(s): Bernard MacLaverty
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for...

Midwinter Break

Midwinter Break
  • Author(s): Bernard MacLaverty
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms – to an honest reckoning – with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with...

Murder Sky High

Murder Sky High
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

After a plane passenger fails to reach his destination alive, DCI Gawn Girvin must once again chase a dragon. When pathology reports that a passenger found dead on arrival on a flight from Amsterdam to Belfast passed due to...

My ‘Dam Life

My ‘Dam Life
  • Author(s): Sean Condon
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Nightingale Point

Nightingale Point
  • Author(s): Luan Goldie
  • Location(s): London, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he’s falling...

Outsider in Amsterdam

Outsider in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Janwillem van de Wetering
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Puppet on a Chain

Puppet on a Chain
  • Author(s): Alistair MacLean
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

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