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33 Place Brugmann

33 Place Brugmann
  • Author(s): Alice Austen
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Charlotte Sauvin has always seen the world differently. At home on 33 Place Brugmann, in the heart of Brussels, her father and her closest friends and neighbours – the Raphaëls from the fourth floor, and Masha from the fifth...

Silent Saturday

Silent Saturday
  • Author(s): Helen Grant
  • Location(s): Brussels, Tervuren
  • Genre(s): Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement – and danger....

Expo 58

Expo 58
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub...

Open City

Open City
  • Author(s): Teju Cole
  • Location(s): Brussels, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A stream of consciousness as Julius, a young Nigerian doctor, processes thought and experiences as he ambles around the streets of Manhattan. He takes off for Brussels, and Nigeria and on his return to Manhattan, he meets a young...

Painting Time

Painting Time
  • Author(s): Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (translator)
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 2007

In 2007, Paula Karst begins her studies at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, resourceful, impulsive, and gifted. Together, the three weave a complex relationship that mirrors the interconnectedness of their...

The Capital

The Capital
  • Author(s): Robert Menasse
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Brussels. A hive of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. No wonder the European Commission is keen to improve its image. The fiftieth anniversary of the European Commission approaches, and the Directorate-General for Culture is tasked with organising an...

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
  • Author(s): Rudy Rucker
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Brussels, Rome
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Sixteenth century Europe as depicted on Peter Bruegel’s canvasses. A street festival, skating, hunting in the snow are everyday life. Rucker tells the story of an artist, whose own life is little known. We follow the artist from the...

Diplomacy

Diplomacy
  • Author(s): Zahra Owens
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Jack Christensen has everything he ever wanted. He’s a rising star in US Diplomacy, the youngest man to have been appointed as an Ambassador of the United States. A career diplomat who’s just been sent to a politically interesting...

Dreadful Lies

Dreadful Lies
  • Author(s): Michelle Bailey
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Matilda, in Brussels, stumbles across a missing person’s case.

Europea Halls

Europea Halls
  • Author(s): Alan Shivers
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Europea Halls. Only the select few have made it into these prestigious dorms in the capital of the EU, Brussels. When six best teenage friends get stalked by a serial killer, the campus is on high alert....

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