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The Ladies of the Secret Circus

The Ladies of the Secret Circus
  • Author(s): Constance Sayers
  • Location(s): Paris, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1924 and 2004

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Perfect for fans of...

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
  • Author(s): Violette Leduc
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for...

The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Second half 15th century

Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris’s Musee National...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
  • Author(s): Sébastien Japrisot
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Moden

Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse she decides to head south. What...

The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas, Liesl Schillinger (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...

The Last Collection

The Last Collection
  • Author(s): Jeanne Mackin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli (‘Schiap’) are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. They oppose each other at every turn, in both their politics...

The Last Correspondent

The Last Correspondent
  • Author(s): Soraya M Lane
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in...

The Last Dress from Paris

The Last Dress from Paris
  • Author(s): Jade Beer
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017 / 1952

Each Dior dress tells a story… London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life....

The Last Knight

The Last Knight
  • Author(s): Candice Proctor
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1189

Spirited Attica d’Alerion will do anything to protect her beloved brother from danger. To warn him of a political betrayal that could lead to war, Attica disguises herself as a young courtier and bravely rides into the arms of...

The Last Train from Paris

The Last Train from Paris
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...

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