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Love is Blind

Love is Blind
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th & early 20th centuries

This is William Boyd’s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is...

Paris Echo

Paris Echo
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan...

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE
  • Author(s): Cliff Simon, Loren Stephens
  • Location(s): Paris, South Africa, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1989-1990

“ holds a loving regard for both Africa and Paris, expounding on the various riches of both lands… the Paris lights and what they bestowed upon the author will mesmerize the reader.” —Manhattan Book Review Little did Cliff...

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens
  • Author(s): Jean-Christophe Napais
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with...

The Bleeding

The Bleeding
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec, Paris
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1482

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In...

The Joyce Girl

The Joyce Girl
  • Author(s): Annabel Abbs
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1928 Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music, literature and dance. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer, training with some of the world s most...

The Lantern’s Dance

The Lantern’s Dance
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...

The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Since her daughter went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been a woman alone. Her only companion her camera. Since Lizzie disappeared, she has blamed and isolated herself, given up hope. Until, out of the blue,...

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): Notting Hill, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . . With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine...

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