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The Gilded Fan

The Gilded Fan
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1640s

How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...

The Lover’s Portrait

The Lover’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary/WW2

When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam,...

The Miniaturist

The Miniaturist
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1680s

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from...

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Author(s): Anne Frank
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time,...

The Dinner

The Dinner
  • Author(s): Herman Koch
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse – the banality of work, the...

A Cold Death in Amsterdam

A Cold Death in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Alkmaar, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved ten-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead...

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lotte Meerman is faced with the choice of interviewing the latest victim in a string of assaults or talking to a man who claims he really isn’t dead, she picks the interview. After all, the man cannot possibly...

A View Across the Rooftops

A View Across the Rooftops
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kelman
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

University professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his beloved wife – and has no intention of ever letting anyone new into his quiet, safe world. It is a world where the clock ticks steadily in his mathematics...

Dirty Pictures

Dirty Pictures
  • Author(s): Patricia Ketola
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When New York art dealer Elizabeth Martel’s mother falls ill, she returns to her hometown in the Midwest. After her mother’s death she is seriously short of funds, and a friend suggests she take a job as art adviser...

It Happened in Venice

It Happened in Venice
  • Author(s): Molly Hopkins
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Dublin, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

He cheated, but only once! Evie Dexter has promised to forgive and forget her fiancé Rob – and her efforts to absolve his sins are paying off: in the past ten days she’s only called him a two-timing love...

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