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The Girl in the Blue Beret

The Girl in the Blue Beret
  • Author(s): Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Location(s): Belgium, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II and later

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later,...

The Girl Who Crossed Mountains

The Girl Who Crossed Mountains
  • Author(s): Lelita Baldock
  • Location(s): San Sebastian, The Basque Country, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

On either side of the Pyrenees mountains, two women will risk everything to do what’s right… Abene García, a fisherman’s daughter, must make a terrible choice: risk being caught in the crossfires of the escalating Spanish Civil War or...

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
  • Author(s): Christine Féret-Fleury
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere . . . When Juliette takes the...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four old friends. Thrown back together after forty years apart. What could possibly go wrong? In the 1970s, The Girls were best friends sharing a house and good times: Zara the famous diva actor, Val the uptight solicitor, Jackie...

The Glutton

The Glutton
  • Author(s): A K Blakemore
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1790s

The 18th century is drawing to a close, and unrest grips France. Tarare has been born into a life of slender means, but when a sudden act of violence ignites in him a ferocious appetite, his extraordinary abilities to...

The Godmother

The Godmother
  • Author(s): Hannelore Cayre, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...

The Great Believers

The Great Believers
  • Author(s): Rebecca Makkai
  • Location(s): Paris, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1980s

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins...

The Greengage Summer

The Greengage Summer
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): Champagne Region
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are left to fend for themselves at the elegant, faded hotel, Les Oeillets. Under the increasingly jealous gaze of the glamorous patronne, Mademoiselle Zizi, the children gravitate towards...

The Guardian of Lies

The Guardian of Lies
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, André, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to...

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Liège, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...

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