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The Silvered Serpents

The Silvered Serpents
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris, Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost – one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a...

The Single Soldier

The Single Soldier
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

It is said that home is where the heart is, but when war rips a young man from everything he knows and loves, will he be able to find his way back to everything that matters? In war torn...

The Ski Trip

The Ski Trip
  • Author(s): Sarah Clarke
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT… Four friends go to the Alps on a boys’ skiing holiday. But their trip is cut short when one of them falls to his death. Zoe travels to France with Ivy to collect Tom’s body. While...

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Rachel Khoo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins in a tiny bedsit near the Bastille. Newly arrived from London, Rachel Khoo is trying to make a life for herself in Paris, carrying a British, Chinese-Malaysian and Austrian background, while juggling odd jobs, culinary school and...

The Snakes

The Snakes
  • Author(s): Sadie Jones
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all...

The Soldier’s Home

The Soldier’s Home
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France, England, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

The Soldier’s Home’ is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, ‘The Single Soldier’, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan. The war is over and his home was re-built … but a home is just a set of...

The Song That Seduced Paris

The Song That Seduced Paris
  • Author(s): Cindy Irish
  • Location(s): Paris, Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Opera gets sexy! American music mogul Teddy Wilson combines the beauty of opera with the marketability of pop and creates the pop-opera multinational singing group called “Bel Homme.” French for “Beautiful Man,” the four performers he chooses are much...

The Spirit of the Horse

The Spirit of the Horse
  • Author(s): Pam Billinge
  • Location(s): Mayenne
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When Pam follows her dream to a farmhouse with five acres in northern France, she is able to live alongside her horses for the first time. Here, in the heart of nature, deeper insights are revealed into the healing...

The Stopping Place

The Stopping Place
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One wrong turn is all it takes to disappear… Two friends, a hidden trail and a frantic search for the truth. The brand-new gripping thriller from No. 1 bestselling author Carmel Harrington is available to pre-order now. ‘Carmel Harrington...

The Strays of Paris

The Strays of Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Smiley
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of a group of extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is...

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