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The Limits of Pleasure

The Limits of Pleasure
  • Author(s): Daniel M Jaffe
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1990's

The Limits of Pleasure follows Dave Miller, a forty-year-old bearish gay man, living in Boston in an escalating skirmish to reconcile his Jewish and gay identities. A year after the death of his Holocaust-surviving grandmother, Dave leaves Boston for...

The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe

The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe
  • Author(s): Milly Johnson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Part of the “Quick Reads” series. It only takes one small step to change your life! Lara Cliffe and her three friends are off on a mini break for her hen party. It’s three weeks before her wedding to ’Steady Freddie’, one...

The Madman of Freedom Square

The Madman of Freedom Square
  • Author(s): Hassan Blasim
  • Location(s): Baghdad, Amsterdam, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980 to early 2000s

From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam… Blasim s stories present an uncompromising...

The Outfield Player and HotKiana97

The Outfield Player and HotKiana97
  • Author(s): Ed Goold
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I have done bad things too, you know…” When softball player and media-type Jay Best gets involved with influencer Karin, a woman half his age, she offers him a thrilling escape from his humdrum life. Whip-smart, sexy and a...

The Unadoptables

The Unadoptables
  • Author(s): Hana Tooke
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Later 1800s

In the autumn of 1886, Elinora Gassbeek, matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage discovers five new babies in most extraordinary circumstances: One in a tin toolbox. One in a coal bucket. One in a picnic hamper. One in a...

The Vanishing Children

The Vanishing Children
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1684

The Dutch Stadhouder, William of Orange, has summoned Master Mercurius — and that is never good news. Mercurius has gained a reputation for himself with William for successfully undertaking diplomatic missions. And William is now paranoid that his own...

The War Pianist

The War Pianist
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): London, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in...

The Wrong Girl

The Wrong Girl
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

She knew they would come for her. How long can she wait? The Wrong Girl is the second title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson’s atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.

What Happens in Amsterdam

What Happens in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Rachel Lynn Solomon
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dani Dorfman is looking for an escape. She’s not expecting to land a new job to take her from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, but after recently getting dumped and fired, she’s determined to make this a fresh start. But...

Widow for a Year

Widow for a Year
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to 1990s

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