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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Author(s): Therese Anne Fowler
  • Location(s): France, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th century

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn’t...

A Parachute in the Lime Tree

A Parachute in the Lime Tree
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1938-41

April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
  • Author(s): P S Duffy
  • Location(s): France, Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

‘Trust me. I know where I’m going.’ Angus MacGrath, artist, sailor and navigator, is lost, caught between a remote wife, a disapproving father and a son seeking guidance. Far from his coastal village in Nova Scotia, war rages in...

The Confectioner’s Tale

The Confectioner’s Tale
  • Author(s): Laura Madeleine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s and 1980s

At the famous Patisserie Clermont in Paris, 1909, a chance encounter with the owner’s daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered...

The Empress of Ice Cream

The Empress of Ice Cream
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1670s

FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco’s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle,...

The Lying-Down Room

The Lying-Down Room
  • Author(s): Anna Jaquiery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris; in the stifling August heat, Commandant Serge Morel is called to a disturbing crime scene. An elderly woman has been murdered to the soundtrack of Faure’s Requiem, her body then grotesquely displayed. At first this strange case seems...

These Dividing Walls

These Dividing Walls
  • Author(s): Fran Cooper
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls, people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone, while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop...

Tita

Tita
  • Author(s): Marie Houzelle
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Tita is a little girl of seven years, and she feels very different to other girls. She has perfect parents. She puts on plays with her friends, spies on adults, challenges her teacher, and even manages to read forbidden...

A Beautiful Rival

A Beautiful Rival
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

The world is at war, but on the gilded streets of Fifth Avenue, New York, a battle of a different kind is brewing… New York, 1915. Elizabeth Arden has been New York’s golden girl since her beauty salon opened...

A Chateau in Provence

A Chateau in Provence
  • Author(s): Charles Wood
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Provence is a land of long cafe lunches, of lavender, olives, wine, medieval villages and ruined castles. Its history is steeped with myth and legend and peopled with painters, poets and knights. The beauty of its land has been...

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