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Devolution

Devolution
  • Author(s): John Casey
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Michael Dolan is a stoic perfectionist and former special operations pilot working a staff job at the Pentagon. After accepting an improbable CIA request to help prevent impending terrorist attacks in Europe, Dolan finds that of the demons he...

Double Room

Double Room
  • Author(s): Anne Sénès, Alice Banks (Translator)
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s / contemporary

London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his...

FALL OUT

FALL OUT
  • Author(s): M N Grenside
  • Location(s): California, London, Switzerland, The Philippines, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): PRESENT

An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT – a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part 1

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part 1
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France, England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (post 2007)

Buying a country estate in France seemed such a simple thing to accomplish. When Beth, her irascible husband Jack, and their two fat dogs set off, little do they know that it will become such an extraordinary adventure. Surviving...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part II

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part II
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (post 2007)

With six failures so far, and six more properties to see, Beth, her irascible husband, Jack, and their two fat dogs continue their hunt for a country domaine in France. As tensions rise, Beth’s anxieties switch from house-hunting failures...

France Sketchbooks

France Sketchbooks
  • Author(s): Laurie Olin
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

An artist/designer’s intimate and loving sketches and notes from 50 years of visits to France and looking carefully at aspects of life there, both humble and grand Looking carefully and noting in clear sketches what he sees, Olin presents...

French Exchange with Rubies

French Exchange with Rubies
  • Author(s): Stephanie McCarthy
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Carcassone
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2017

When Elodie’s parents rejected her, she was sent to live with her controlling grandmother in Marseille. The only sign of her mother’s supposed affection for her were gifts of ruby necklaces which Elodie believed to be genuine. When we...

From Moulin Rouge to Gaudi’s City

From Moulin Rouge to Gaudi’s City
  • Author(s): E J Bauer
  • Location(s): France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present day

When Elizabeth receives a diagnosis of breast cancer, she reassesses her life’s to-do list. Having always suppressed her travel longings, she opens her neglected ‘someday’ ledger and takes a much closer look at the contents. After an opportune invitation...

grk Takes Revenge

grk Takes Revenge
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Tim and Natascha realise to their horror that Max has gone to Paris to confront their first adversary, Colonel Zinfandel, the dictator of Stanislavia. They rush after him, with their intrepid dog Grk. Will Max overstep the mark and...

I Love You Too Much

I Love You Too Much
  • Author(s): Alicia Drake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent. In the...

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