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Three Hours in Paris

Three Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed...

Three O’Clock in the Morning

Three O’Clock in the Morning
  • Author(s): Gianrico Carofiglio
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that...

Three Strong Women

Three Strong Women
  • Author(s): Marie NDiaye
  • Location(s): Senegal, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three women who almost had it all…Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her...

Time is a Killer

Time is a Killer
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Noir

Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family’s car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to...

To Calais, in Ordinary Time

To Calais, in Ordinary Time
  • Author(s): James Meek
  • Location(s): France, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1348

England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on...

Tomorrow in Shanghai

Tomorrow in Shanghai
  • Author(s): May-lee Chai
  • Location(s): China, France, Mars, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Various

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large. In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow...

Total Chaos

Total Chaos
  • Author(s): Jean-Claude Izzo, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...

Toujours la France!

Toujours la France!
  • Author(s): Janine Marsh
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Four Seasons in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city...

Transformed: Paris

Transformed: Paris
  • Author(s): Jack Harvey, Suzanne Falter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

Transman spy Charley MacElroy travels to Paris to help French authorities break up a Neo Nazi plot to scatter dirty bombs throughout the city. His older lover Electra comes along to study French, but she soon discovers Dickie Borque,...

Trapeze

Trapeze
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

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