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The Mirror of Simple Souls

The Mirror of Simple Souls
  • Author(s): Aline Kiner, Susan Emanuel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1300s

A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love… It’s 1310 and Paris is alive with talk of the trial of the Templars. Religious repression is on the rise, and the smoke of execution pyres blackens the sky above...

The Missing Wife

The Missing Wife
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have you ever wanted to disappear? When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who knows her is shocked. She has a perfect marriage. Her handsome husband treats her like a princess. She’s always said how lucky she is. So why has...

The Mona Lisa Mystery

The Mona Lisa Mystery
  • Author(s): Pat Hutchins, Laurence Hutchins (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Class 3 of Hampstead Primary School are off on a school trip to Paris! Morgan is the first to spot the bearded man in the black Citroen car, cruising behind their school bus, and feels sure he is following...

The Mona LIsa Speaks

The Mona LIsa Speaks
  • Author(s): Christopher Angel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Brilliant & confident Robertson Ross, an outdoorsy Canadian computer expert hired to update the Louvre’s security system, falls in love with Mathilde, a classic beauty & cultured Parisian art dealer. But, when he discovers that she’s deeply in debt...

The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life

The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life
  • Author(s): David Oates
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by...

The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of...

The Museum of Broken Promises

The Museum of Broken Promises
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1986/current day

Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...

The Naked Sommelier

The Naked Sommelier
  • Author(s): Claire Doyle
  • Location(s): France, England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Enrolled at ‘alternative school’ to study agriculture, Laura McLove is smitten by Leo, a rugged natural wine expert, who is also an avid traveller. She attempts to seduce him using the Law of Attraction in the hope of joining...

The Night Gate

The Night Gate
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Paris, Carennac
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and WW2

In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths...

The Nightingale

The Nightingale
  • Author(s): Kristin Hannah
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW22

Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World...

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