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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

Please check detail of The Girl who fell from the sky as these are both the same book

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...

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