(G.A. van Oorschot, 2007, 269 pages)

Stephan Enter is a writer who takes time to describe the atmosphere, milieu and nature of his characters sensitively and in great detail. As with his previous two novels, this new one is characterised not by loud street noises or an exciting urban life of drink, drugs and rock & roll, but by a refined, touching, sometimes happy, sometimes sad atmosphere in which he describes a number of scenes from the childhood of an intelligent village boy.

(G.A. van Oorschot, 2011, 183 pages)

Grip is a classic psychological novel about three men and a woman, Lotte, which ingeniously draws the reader into the lives of the characters. Vincent and Paul, both in their forties, are taking the Eurostar to Wales to see Lotte and Martin and their daughter and attend a reunion of their mountaineering club. Meanwhile, Martin is on his way to the station to pick them up. During their journey, the men think back to how they met, what life was like for them twenty years earlier and what they expected of each other in those days. These recollections reveal how much they have changed, and how much older they have become.

(G.A. van Oorschot, 2019, 288 pages)

Could there be a more quintessentially Dutch theme for a novel than severing ties with the Reformed Church? You could argue that ‘our’ relationship with the former Dutch colonies comes in a close second to this defining topic.