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True Pleasures

True Pleasures
  • Author(s): Lucinda Holdforth
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Meet the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion – Paris, the world’s...

Turning Point

Turning Point
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From San Francisco to Paris, four talented trauma doctors are given a life-changing opportunity in this gripping medical drama by Danielle Steel. Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco’s busiest emergency room. With his ex-wife and daughters...

Two Steps Forward

Two Steps Forward
  • Author(s): Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist
  • Location(s): France, Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past – for Zoe, the death...

Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue

Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue
  • Author(s): Anna Fargher, Sam Usher (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WWII, French Resistance

A breathtaking story of bravery, friendship and fighting for what you believe in, Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Anna Fargher’s bestselling and award-winning The Umbrella Mouse, based on the true stories of the...

Under a Riviera Moon

Under a Riviera Moon
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemorary

When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her...

Under Occupation

Under Occupation
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1942

Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking...

Undressing Stone

Undressing Stone
  • Author(s): Hazel Manuel
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

‘If you were able, how would you redesign your life?’ Sian Evans is a feisty yet emotionally aloof divorcee with a secret. When her shrink asks her this question she takes it seriously. Giving up her stable home and...

Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop

Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop
  • Author(s): Roselle Lim
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to...

Vantastic France

Vantastic France
  • Author(s): Steve Bichard
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Barry Taylor decides to buy a Farmhouse in France on Ebay without even seeing it, to escape from a boring life in the UK. Cracks soon begin to appear not only with the house but also with other ex-pats...

Vengeance is Mine

Vengeance is Mine
  • Author(s): Jordan Stump (Translator), Marie NDiaye
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Gilles Principaux walks into Maître Susane’s law office seeking representation for his wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried. Gilles’s wife is charged with drowning their three children and the media are circling...

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