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The Porcelain Moon

The Porcelain Moon
  • Author(s): Janie Chang
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union,...

The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery
  • Author(s): Umberto Eco
  • Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1890s

An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.

The Pretender

The Pretender
  • Author(s): Jo Harkin
  • Location(s): England, France, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1480s

The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John...

The Purple Shadow

The Purple Shadow
  • Author(s): Christopher Bowden
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day and 1930s

In the years before the war, Sylvie Charlot was a leading light in Paris fashion with many friends among musicians, artists and writers. Now she is largely forgotten. Spending time in Paris during a break in his acting career,...

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): London, Calais
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1500s

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah...

The Race

The Race
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): China, France, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two (1944)

Get ready for the race of your life… This is what it feels like when I’m running. When I’m running fast, I feel free. 12-year-old Lili is determined to defeat her arch rival in front of the Queen during...

The Rake and his Honour

The Rake and his Honour
  • Author(s): Beth Elliott
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

1813 Napoleon is on the rampage through France. But some are not willing to sit back and witness the end of the reign of King Louis and the Bourbons. Louise Fauriel comes from a family of talented silversmiths. Recently...

The Red Brick Haze

The Red Brick Haze
  • Author(s): R W Wallace
  • Location(s): Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present Day

Short prequel to The Red Brick Cellars No Good Deed Goes Unpunished When an explosion lays waste to part of the city of Toulouse and the citizens attempt to recover in the ravaged cityscape, Louis runs to the aid...

The Renoir Girls

The Renoir Girls
  • Author(s): Catherine Ostler
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...

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