THERMOMETER If you’ve got two people and one of them does synchronised swimming and the other doesn’t, everything goes wrong.…
The Dutch Riveter
This is a novel – an exceptional one – about death and grief, about a family living through the aftermath…
How we feel about a country deeply affects how we feel about its literature. ‘I do love the Dutch!’ I…
Memories. My elder brothers cycling over the polder, struggling through the squalls, singing an old song at the tops of…
On my first visit to the Netherlands, I had an experience of uncanny familiarity. Sitting over a selection of Dutch…
This is an extract from the short story ‘Creative Writing’, first published in the collection Rustig aan, tijger (‘Easy, Tiger’)…