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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...

The Tarot Reader of Versailles

The Tarot Reader of Versailles
  • Author(s): Anya Bergman
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1790s

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets...

The Things We Do To Our Friends

The Things We Do To Our Friends
  • Author(s): Heather Darwent
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Time Between Us

The Time Between Us
  • Author(s): Marina McCarron
  • Location(s): Normandy, Boston
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1937, 2009

Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports herfrom the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she nor William is prepared forthe warthat will threaten to...

The Time of Cherries

The Time of Cherries
  • Author(s): Michael S Hollington
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s, Franco-Prussian War, Paris Commune

Christine ‘Kiki’ Vellay, the daughter of vineyard workers, is forced to marry an older man in exchange for a piece of land. He abuses her. Seduced by a young naval cadet she plots to run away. When her husband...

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre

The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre
  • Author(s): Clare Povey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1922

The open door felt like an invitation, or a trap. Bastien wasn’t sure which, but with no other choice, he stepped inside…and hoped he’d make it out again alive. Bastien Bonlivre is a boy with a big imagination, determined...

The Unexpected Tale of the Bad Brothers

The Unexpected Tale of the Bad Brothers
  • Author(s): Clare Povey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Bastien Bonlivre is in trouble again. His sworn enemy, Olivier Odieux, has escaped jail and is after Bastien once more. Meanwhile, trouble is also brewing in Paris. Fires are burning, and danger lurks at every corner. Who could be...

The Unwanted Dead

The Unwanted Dead
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Political
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever....

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
  • Author(s): Yorgos Pratanos
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1950s

A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire...

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