Creative Gateway: 6 books

What was it like to live in Isfahan as the foreign wife of an Iranian University professor in the run up to and during the revolution of 1979, when the Shah was overthrown and Khomeini created the Islamic Republic of Iran? Corri van de Stege a Dutch national lived, studied and worked in London for...

Reeling from grief over the vicious murder of her husband, Charley Howard makes a decision which will probably cost her life. Regardless of the danger, she is determined to make the killer suffer. Little does she know the killer is one step ahead, and has already made arrangements to have her killed...

Staying in Rotterdam in the middle of winter, after having lived abroad for a long time, a Dutch woman comments on what she sees around her. When she goes to Delft to meet with an old school friend in rather sad circumstances, she realizes her alienation, from everything and everyone living in the country of her birth and that there is no going back.

All Charley Howard ever wanted was to be married, have three children and live a peaceful life in the suburbs. But the Fates had other ideas, and her happiness was not part of their plans. In the six years after her husband's tragic death, successful businesswoman Charley has taken a small...

Living in East Germany under the watchful eye of the Stasi, trust and love are suspect. Suspicion runs deep about who is watching who. When the wall comes down Bach’s Motetten, performed in the St Thomaskirche in Leipzig, form the background music to Pastor Anselm’s betrayal of the woman he once loved.

In Neshnafad, in Iran, Katie is writing a story about a Dutch girl called Anna, whilst all around her the country is slowly heading towards turmoil.  She hides her notes secretively although her husband Mike knows that her dream is to become a full-time writer and that she is working on a novel...