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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...

A Girl Called Flotsam

A Girl Called Flotsam
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Joanne Harris and William Boyd. Beatrice Palmentier is 36, an award-winning director. And discontent. She is about to make a documentary on world-famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg, when the discovery of a skull on the...

A Grave in the Woods

A Grave in the Woods
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No., 17 in the Dordogne Mysteries The long arm of history reaches into the present in Bruno’s latest case when three sets of bones are discovered, buried deep in the woods outside the Dordogne town of St Denis. It...

A Man’s Head

A Man’s Head
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret’s unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges...

A Paris Apartment

A Paris Apartment
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to the 1890s

When April Vogt’s boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby’s continental furniture specialist does not hear the words “dust” or “rats” or “shuttered for seventy years.” She hears Paris. She hears...

A Paris Haunting

A Paris Haunting
  • Author(s): Janet Doolaege
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Why is the ghost of a distressed woman running through a corridor in the Paris metro? Kay, a translator, finds herself being drawn into a puzzling web involving two gifted musicians, a maker of beautiful jewellery and a morose...

A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis

A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis
  • Author(s): Irene Woodbury
  • Location(s): France, Las Vegas, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Quirky jobs, wacky friends, hot crushes, and an unraveling marriage are all part of this darkly funny novel describing 45 year-old newlywed Wendy Sinclair’s life in Las Vegas after she impulsively decides to stay following a bizarre girls’ weekend...

A Son at the Front

A Son at the Front
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

The novel focusses on the painter Compton, in Paris, and opens 30th July 1914. The novel explores family and sexual bonds, the value of art during war and cultural values.

A Song of Isolation

A Song of Isolation
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job....

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