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Demons of Ghent

Demons of Ghent
  • Author(s): Helen Grant
  • Location(s): Ghent
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Veerle has moved to Ghent to start a new life with her father and his girlfriend, she’s isolated and alone. But not as alone as she had thought . . . Veerle recognises a familiar face in the crowds...

The First Casualty

The First Casualty
  • Author(s): Ben Elton
  • Location(s): Flanders, Ypres
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence,...

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 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...

The War Nurses

The War Nurses
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Ypres
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

1914 – Two young nurses pledge to help the war effort: Mairi, a wholesome idealist hoping to leave behind her past and Elsie, a glamorous single mother with a weakness for handsome soldiers. Despite their differences, the pair become...

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