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The Lavender Garden

The Lavender Garden
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This is the same book as The Light Behind the Windows, Please see details under that listing.

The Librarians of Rue de Picardie

The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
  • Author(s): Janet Skeslien Charles
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1918 / 1987

Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book… 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from...

The Library of Unrequited Love

The Library of Unrequited Love
  • Author(s): Sophie Divry
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Moden

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and...

The Light of Paris

The Light of Paris
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Chicago, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back to 1920s

‘Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife Chicago, 1999. Madeleine is trapped – by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband – in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted....

The Lightning and the Few

The Lightning and the Few
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Dunkirk, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939-40

When Jox McNabb is expelled from school he is forced to look to his future. Inspired by the sight of a Hurricane flying over him, he becomes determined to join the RAF. And after basic training, Jox is posted...

The Lion’s Den

The Lion’s Den
  • Author(s): Katherine St. John
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dare to step on board The Lion’s Den? When Belle is invited by her old friend Summer on a luxurious girls’ getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend’s yacht, the only answer is yes. But once aboard the...

The Little Bookshop On The Seine

The Little Bookshop On The Seine
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bookshop owner Sarah Smith has been offered the opportunity to exchange bookshops with her new Parisian friend for 6 months! And saying yes is a no-brainer – after all, what kind of a romantic would turn down a trip...

The Little French Bistro

The Little French Bistro
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her...

The Little French Bookshop

The Little French Bookshop
  • Author(s): Cecile Pivot
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A letter writing workshop. Five strangers. Countless secrets bursting in between the pages. When French bookseller Esther loses her father, she decides to place an ad in a newspaper, inviting struggling readers to join her secret letter writing workshop....

The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées

The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It’s an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for Del and...

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