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The Reinvention of Love

The Reinvention of Love
  • Author(s): Helen Humphreys
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not...

The School of Mirrors

The School of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th century

During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained...

The Sisters of Versailles

The Sisters of Versailles
  • Author(s): Sally Christie
  • Location(s): Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

VERSAILLES A sumptuous and sensual tale of power, romance, family, and betrayal centered around four sisters and one King. Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy...

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterpiece, post World war 1: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who travel from the wild nightlife of Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain, in the company of a group of expatriates – moral dissolution, unrequited...

The Sweet Life in Paris

The Sweet Life in Paris
  • Author(s): David Lebovitz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2000s

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to...

This is Life

This is Life
  • Author(s): Dan Rhodes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dan Rhodes’s new novel opens with a determined art student, Aurélie Renard, throwing a stone in a crowded Paris neighbourhood in a bid to kick-start her next creative project. She had been planning to produce a straightforward series of...

Wildest Dreams

Wildest Dreams
  • Author(s): Jennifer Blake
  • Location(s): Italy, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid1800s and Modern

Two extraordinary women – 150 years apart – search Europe for a special perfume, and their own secret hearts for the thing that matters most…. The perfume is legendary, once worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine — and made...

Will Do Magic for Small Change

Will Do Magic for Small Change
  • Author(s): Andrea Hairston
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Paris, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Late 19th century, Modern

Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But at 5’10’’ and 180 pounds, she’s theatrically challenged. Her family life is a tangle of mystery and deadly secrets,...

Winter Flowers

Winter Flowers
  • Author(s): Angelique Villeneuve, Adriana Hunter (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

It’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn’t seen growing up. He is not coming back from the front line but from...

Woman in Blue and White

Woman in Blue and White
  • Author(s): Janet Doolaege
  • Location(s): Paris, Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Zoe has split up with her boyfriend. Now, all she wants is to be safe, caring for small children in a Paris school. But a violent incident rocks her world, after which a colleague invites her to an idyllic...

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