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The Oblique Place

The Oblique Place
  • Author(s): Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
  • Location(s): Austria, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The discovery of photographs in an album – of her Spanish grandfather who joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht and her father in the uniform of Franco’s army- leads Caterina Pascual Söderbaum to explore her family’s links to some of the most...

The Other Side of Paradise

The Other Side of Paradise
  • Author(s): Vanessa Beaumont
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

LONDON 1921 – Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the...

The Painter from Shanghai

The Painter from Shanghai
  • Author(s): Jennifer Epstein
  • Location(s): Paris, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...

The Paris Novel

The Paris Novel
  • Author(s): Ruth Reichl
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She’s perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a...

The President’s Hat

The President’s Hat
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. Daniel’s thrill at being in such close proximity to the...

The Rabbi’s Cat

The Rabbi’s Cat
  • Author(s): Joann Sfar
  • Location(s): Algeria, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the...

The Ruins

The Ruins
  • Author(s): Phoebe Wynne
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 2010 looking back to 1985

Amidst the glamour of the French Riviera lies the crumbling façade of Chateau de Sètes, a small slice of France still held by the British aristocracy. But this long since abandoned chateau is now up for sale, and two...

The Secret Paris Cinema Club

The Secret Paris Cinema Club
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Alain Bonnard, the owner of a small art cinema in Paris, is a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgic. In his Cinéma Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no XXL colas, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to his principles of quality...

The Seven Sisters

The Seven Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...

The Summer of France

The Summer of France
  • Author(s): Paulita Kincer
  • Location(s): France, Provence, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Fia Jennings loses her job at the local newspaper, she thinks she’ll have the chance to bond with her teenage twins. As she realizes she may be too late to create the perfect family, she’s saved by a...

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