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Stan Lauryssens, whose book about the late Belgian actor Julien Schoenaerts incited a court action by Julien’s son, Matthias Schoenaerts, has withdrawn the book from sale rather than comply with a
How many tourists in Brussels know that the two most famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Emily, lived here for a time?
The result of a collaboration between a handful of editors, photographers and graphic designers, The Bright Side of Belgium comes as the latest evidence of a growing but still subdued sentim
Flemish politician Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium’ former prime minister and current president of the European Council, has published a book of essays called Europe in the Storm in which he d
The eight bookshops across Belgium that were known as De Slegte before being taken over by the Dutch chain Polare will revert back to their original name and be run by the original family owners,
The largest book fair in the low countries, Boekenbeurs in Antwerp, was the location for the setting of the world record yesterday for the largest number of books ever toppled in a domino chain.
The largest book fair in the low countries, Boekenbeurs in Antwerp, was the location for the setting of the world record yesterday for the largest number of books ever toppled in a domino chain.
Pipe-smoking detective Jules Maigret will return to British bookstores this autumn, with Penguin publishing all 75 books in Belgian author’s Georges Simenon’s series over as many months, wri
Hercule Poirot is to test his famous grey cells once again in a “new” Agatha Christie novel – the first featuring the fictional Belgian detective since Christie’s death in 1976, writes the
