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The Good Left Undone

The Good Left Undone
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Viareggio, Marseilles (Marseille), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had...

The Invisible Bridge

The Invisible Bridge
  • Author(s): Julie Orringer
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hungary, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young...

The Last Restaurant in Paris

The Last Restaurant in Paris
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German...

The Little French Village of Book Lovers

The Little French Village of Book Lovers
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I’m that thing you call love’ In a small town in balmy Provence, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of orphan Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes...

The Lollipop Shoes

The Lollipop Shoes
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Following closely on the heals of Chocolat, Zozie de l’Alba enters into Vianne and Anouk’s life (now calling themselves Yanne and Annie), seemingly from nowhere and they become friends. But Zozie is not quite what she seems. With a...

The Lost Lover

The Lost Lover
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Paris, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 1930s

(The Wild Isle Series, 3) An epic, sweeping historical novel of second chances and lovers reunited . . . Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she...

The Martins

The Martins
  • Author(s): David Foenkinos
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbors, the Martins. Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling...

The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of...

The Oblique Place

The Oblique Place
  • Author(s): Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
  • Location(s): Austria, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The discovery of photographs in an album – of her Spanish grandfather who joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht and her father in the uniform of Franco’s army- leads Caterina Pascual Söderbaum to explore her family’s links to some of the most...

The Other Side of Paradise

The Other Side of Paradise
  • Author(s): Vanessa Beaumont
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

LONDON 1921 – Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the...

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