Novels

Mysteries of Gogos ​(2011)

Sixteen-year-old Danny Dykoff and his best friend Theo are stuck in an endless Belgian winter, dreaming of sunshine, Italian girls and the Mediterranean. Try-outs for their school’s Model European Union team are unexpectedly successful, and three months later, boys find themselves on a paradisiacal Croatian island. Danny Dykoff feels invincible—until the secret fears and failures that he left behind in Brussels begin to catch up with him, threatening both his sanity and his life.

Chickendance ​(2014)

Ronald Chickendance takes the long view on most things. Sixty-five years after the D-Day landings in Normandy, he is back in Europe, with something on his mind. And it has to do with his fourteen-year-old grandson Ronnie. Past, present, and future collide in this irreverent and touching story of family, friendship, and love.

The Venus Zone (2017)

Thibault thinks he’s meeting up with his eccentric uncle Henry for a European road trip before starting at Oxford University. Henry, though, has other plans. So begins an adventure across Europe – from London to Luxembourg to glittering hotels in the South of France, Thibault embarks with Henry and Venus, his dazzling cousin, on a mission that will change him, his family (and maybe the corporate world) forever. A story of love and activism in the Europe of today, The Venus Zone won the Luxembourg National Prize for Literature in 2016.
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