Dutch Historical Fiction

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place. Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime – the unforgettable Sunday Times best seller. A story of two siblings, their childhood home and a past that they can’t let go. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns.

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

In a terrible accident, Rachel Yoder loses her husband, her son, and her unborn child. Now, Rachel leads a reclusive life with her young daughter. Her soul is troubled, and her eye-sight has mysteriously dimmed. But the discovery of an old postcard, hidden for years, is about to change Rachel's world.

When Nazis break down the front door of 18-year-old Trudi’s home and seize the Jewish couple hiding in her attic, she’s devastated, and is suddenly solely responsible for their two innocent children. The whispered rumours about the resistance are her only hope. A man called Frans and his cousin Piet risk their lives every day helping scared and abandoned Jewish children escape into the countryside. Under the cover of night, she races to beg for their help.

1940, Amsterdam. You're nineteen years old. You have dreams of your own. You never trained to be a soldier. But your dreams died in wartime, and your country is under siege. What do you do when the people you love are no longer safe? Hiding them is not enough. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip on your homeland? Or do you unleash your fury, joining forces with your enemies' enemies, plotting to strike?

"De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama" begint in Berlijn in 1943. Als de negenjarige Bruno op een dag uit school komt, zijn al zijn spullen in kratten gepakt. Hun nieuwe huis staat naast een hek dat zich uitstrekt zover het oog reikt, een hek dat Bruno afschermt van de vreemde mensen die hij daarachter ziet bewegen. Op een van zijn ontdekkingstochten ontmoet Bruno een jongen wiens leven en ­omstandigheden zeer verschillen van die van hem. Toch sluiten de jongens vriendschap, maar het is een vriendschap die niet zonder gevolgen blijft.

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.

Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her.

Amsterdam, 1941. When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as her Jewish friends are forbidden from performing with her onstage, and the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased. Johanna helps organize the Artists’ Resistance, an underground network that arranges for Jewish musicians to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna is told about a Jewish orphan who is headed for deportation, she does not think twice: she takes the baby in as her own, hiding the truth from everyone, including her sister, Liesbeth.

During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports. But Rika's covert activities aren't the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth.

G.A. Henty novels are highly researched as well as drawn from his first-hand experiences of people, places, and events. From 1579 through 1585, the heroic Dutch Protestants fight for freedom from Catholic Spanish rule. Few know of the persistent efforts of the Prince of Orange, known as William the Silent, or the huge obstacles he faced as the leader of the Dutch. Through the eyes of Ned Martin you will be taken back to these turbulent and troubled times.

In het Engeland van de twaalfde eeuw trekt meesterbouwer Tom met zijn gezin van stad naar stad op zoek naar werk. Ten einde raad vraagt hij onderdak in de priorij van Kingsbridge. Overste Philip ziet een hemels teken in zijn komst: Tom zou wel eens de man kunnen zijn die de magistrale kathedraal kan bouwen waar Philip altijd van heeft gedroomd. Maar zijn ambities zijn groot, en lang niet iedereen steunt zijn plannen.

De zussen Viann en Isabelle hebben altijd een goede band gehad, ondanks hun verschillen. Isabelle, de jongste en brutaalste van de twee, woont in Parijs, terwijl Viann op het platteland van Frankrijk een rustig bestaan leidt met haar man Antoine en hun dochtertje. Maar dan breekt de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit en Antoine moet meevechten.

Ridder Florian is niet bepaald een held. Behalve voor draken is hij ook nog bang voor rovers, toverheksen, grote heren, stoere ridders, jonkvrouwen... voor alles en iedereen. In het grote luisterboek van Ridder Florian zijn 21 verhalen gebundeld en voorgelezen door meesterverteller Jan Meng. Eigenlijk. Maar gelukkig is de wereld niet zo eng als Florian vreest.

After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself - in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to her own independence.

Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's heritage. So when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay.

Op de dag van Halloween in het jaar 1327 knijpen vier kinderen er na de mis in de kathedraal van Kingsbridge tussenuit: een dievegge, een pestkop, een jong genie en een meisje dat dokter wil worden. In het bos zijn ze getuige van de moord op twee mannen. Voor altijd zullen ze met elkaar verbonden blijven door die raadselachtige gebeurtenis, die ene dag in het bos.

Aadje Piraatje groeit op tussen de piraten op een piratenschip. Maar hij heeft dezelfde problemen als gewone kinderen: hij moet leren zwemmen, moet zijn bord schildpaddensoep leegeten en heeft heimwee naar zijn moeder. Gelukkig krijgt hij hulp van zijn vader en de andere stoere piraten.

De inspiratiebron voor de #1 Netflix-hit Bridgerton 'Het antwoord op Downton Abbey, maar vele malen kleuriger en ondeugender.' De Telegraaf Hyacinth Bridgerton is intelligent, scherp van tong en een behoorlijk felle tante. Gareth St. Clair is gefascineerd door haar. Als hij in de problemen raakt, vraagt hij Hyacinth om hulp. Zijn vader is van plan het St. Clair-fortuin over de balk te smijten en Gareth staat machteloos. Het enige aanknopingspunt dat hij heeft, zou te maken kunnen hebben met een oud dagboek.