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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Author(s): Brian Selznnick
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlock with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo’s...

The Jazz Flower

The Jazz Flower
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child. In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two more children. But it is...

The Last Great Dance on Earth

The Last Great Dance on Earth
  • Author(s): Sandra Gulland
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

The 3rd Book in the Josephine P Trilogy. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Napoléon and his beloved Joséphine inhabit the Tuileries Palace. During the years they have been married it has been a time of extraordinary turmoil...

The Last Hours in Paris

The Last Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Ruth Druart
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris can do strange things to a man’s mind… like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. ‘The Death of Socrates’ is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can...

The Last Nude

The Last Nude
  • Author(s): Ellis Avery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

THIS sizzling historical fiction is about a woman who modelled for a famous bisexual artist (Tamara de Lempicka) in 1920s Paris and fell madly in love with her. In 1927, the Jewish-Italian Rafaela Fano was travelling with her Grandmother,...

The Left Bank

The Left Bank
  • Author(s): Kate Muir
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Olivier and Madison Malin live the “life” on the exclusive Left Bank. Madison is a film star: her beauty, talent and perfect accent hide her Texan roots and her husband, Olivier, is the darling of the sophisticated Left Bank:...

The Life of an Unknown Man

The Life of an Unknown Man
  • Author(s): Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, World War 2

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of “Dreams of My Russian Summers”. In “The Life of an Unknown Man”, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia’s...

The Messenger

The Messenger
  • Author(s): Megan Davis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wealthy and privileged, Alex has an easy path to success in the Parisian elite his father mingles with. But the two have never seen eye to eye. Desperate to escape the increasingly suffocating atmosphere of their apartment, Alex seeks...

The Milliner’s Secret

The Milliner’s Secret
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration. Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth...

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