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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...

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...

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