On a night so cold that it bites, five children run away from the Little Tulip Orphanage and embark on a moonlit caper... Lively, funny and exciting adventure set in C19th Amsterdam. Ages 7-... read more
Huygens developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of Saturn - via a telescope that he had also invented. His... read more
Macartney's 1793 mission was a failure, but the Dutch were better informed. This new study argues that the Qing court was not arrogant and narrow-minded, as the English concluded, but was in... read more
A substantial illustrated biography from the former chief curator at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag - home to the world's largest collection of Mondrian works.
Essays on the emergence of landscape as a subject fit for depiction in its own right in the C16th and C17th, which coincided with the expansion of Dutch commercial and colonial interests aro... read more
Flemish collaboration in WW2, by the author of War and Turpentine, who bought an old house in Ghent only to discover, after twenty years, that a previous occupant was an SS officer. Hertmans... read more
A starling shares his happiness at the beauty of the world with the owl, the woodpecker, etc - the kingfisher's reply is in mirror-writing, reflected in the water. Strong lino-cut illustrat... read more