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The Missing Italian Girl

The Missing Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Barbara Corrado Pope
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Belle Epoque (turn of the 19th century)

In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two...

The Mistress of Paris

The Mistress of Paris
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept...

The Painted Girls

The Painted Girls
  • Author(s): Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Three sisters, Antoinette, Marie and Charlotte – the story is told from the viewpoint of Antoinette and Marie, the family is without a father, the mother is oftentimes drunk. It revolves around ballet and Marie catches the eye of...

The Paris Architect

The Paris Architect
  • Author(s): Charles Belfoure
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice...

The Paris Dancer

The Paris Dancer
  • Author(s): Nicola Rayner
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 2012

A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of courage, friendship and resistance, inspired by the incredible true story of a Jewish ballroom dancer in Paris during WWII, perfect for fans of The Paris Library. Paris, 1938. Annie Mayer arrives in France...

The Paris Lawyer

The Paris Lawyer
  • Author(s): Sylvie Granotier
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As a child, Catherine Monsigny was the only witness to a heinous crime. Now, she is an ambitious rookie attorney in sophisticated modern-day Paris. On the side, she does pro bono work and hits the jackpot: a major felony...

The Paris Muse

The Paris Muse
  • Author(s): Louisa Treger
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.’ Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced...

The Paris Peacemakers

The Paris Peacemakers
  • Author(s): Flora Johnston
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Paris, 1919. As the fragile negotiations of the International Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. She will do anything to escape...

The Paris Winter

The Paris Winter
  • Author(s): Imogen Robertson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Imogen Robertson’s break-out novel – a deep, dark and opulent tale of Belle ?poque Paris, and the secrets and dangers hidden beneath its luxurious facade. Maud Heighton came to Lafond’s famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints...

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera
  • Author(s): Gaston Leroux
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Modern audiences are well acquainted with Gaston Leroux’s infamous Phantom of the Opera, the tale of Erik, a horrifically disfigured man who lives in the underground beneath the Paris Opera House, where his creative genius mingles – and festers...

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