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Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
  • Author(s): Jeremy Mercer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris is one of the world’s most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra...

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
  • Author(s): Nancy K Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. “Breathless” is the story of a girl who represents those...

Bright and Deadly Things

Bright and Deadly Things
  • Author(s): Lexie Elliott
  • Location(s): Saint Gervais
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A retreat doesn’t always mean safety… Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running...

C’est La Folie

C’est La Folie
  • Author(s): Michael Wright
  • Location(s): France

One day in late summer, Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London existence and, with only his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a new life. His destination was ‘La Folie’, a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse...

Camera Shy

Camera Shy
  • Author(s): Julia Boggio
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heartbroken after her almost-engagement was called off, Jess goes on a mini-break to Paris seeking closure and meets a hot French stranger called Gabriel. As sparks fly, Jess, fearing she was dumped because she was boring, vows to be...

Candlepower

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

Stella, working as a secretary in Paris, feels that her life is going nowhere. After the bitter break-up of a relationship, she has only a canary for company, and relations are strained with her parents and brother back in...

Catch Me If You Cannes

Catch Me If You Cannes
  • Author(s): Lisa Dickenson
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The first part in this hilarious four-part romantic comedy, from the author of You Had Me at Merlot and The Twelve Dates of Christmas – winner of the Novelicious Debut of the Year award. Jess has decided it’s time to get out of...

Cham

Cham
  • Author(s): Jonathan Trigell
  • Location(s): Chamonix
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Long-dead Lord Byron started it. The rock star of his age. But a poet with about as much relevance to the blood grudge struggle that marks modern life for most of humanity, as he has to the practice of...

Christmas at Tiffany’s

Christmas at Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she...

City of Dreams

City of Dreams
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

After a whirlwind courtship and marriage to dashing Frenchman Emile Daubigny, Anna, the teenage daughter of a Russian furrier, moves to Paris with her new husband, looking forward to a life of gaiety, love and comfortable affluence. The year...

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