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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 Stranger in the Seine

The Stranger in the Seine
  • Author(s): Guillaume Musso, Rosie Eyre (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PARIS, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman is saved from the waters of the Seine. Unable to remember her name or how she ended up in the river, she is taken to the hospital...

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 Summer Boy

The Summer Boy
  • Author(s): Philippe Besson, Sam Taylor (translator)
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1980s

On an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery Tell me, do you know why the...

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...

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