Tags: Amsterdam

The Weight of Ink

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish I love it when a novel inspires me to conduct extra research, and in The Weight of Ink there was plenty of material […]

The Cut-Out Girl

The Cut-Out Girl by Bart van Es In 2014, Bart van Es, a professor of English Literature at Oxford University, visits his father’s foster sister, Lien, in Amsterdam. Lien is […]

The Coffee Trader

The Coffee Trader by David Liss The Coffee Trader is an “historical financial thriller” which sounds impossibly dull, but is not.   The novel takes place in 1659 Amsterdam, a bustling […]