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The Year That Changed Us

The Year That Changed Us
  • Author(s): Helen Rolfe
  • Location(s): Bath, Paris
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...

The Yellow Dog

The Yellow Dog
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th century

The story is set in the small seaside town of Concarneau, which is left shaken when a local man is shot dead by a mystery assailant hiding in a deserted house. Fear sweeps through the town, which soon falls...

There’s Only One Paris: Tale for our Times

There’s Only One Paris: Tale for our Times
  • Author(s): April Lily Heise
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“There’s only one Paris, and however hard living here may be, and if it became worse and even harder, a world of good.” — Vincent van Gogh. In the midst of a global pandemic, the artist’s...

This Christmas in Paris

This Christmas in Paris
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris? When Carys is offered the chance to run a little French café, she leaps at the chance to discover an exciting city where she can dream big. Meanwhile, struggling journalist...

This Poison Will Remain

This Poison Will Remain
  • Author(s): Fred Vargas
  • Location(s): Nimes
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t...

Three

Three
  • Author(s): Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator)
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s - later 2010s

Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an...

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...

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