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city-lit Paris
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes (Editor)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

A collection of urban writing anthologies to transport you to the city via fiction

Claude and Camille –

Claude and Camille –
  • Author(s): Stephanie Cowell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and...

Cold Winter in Bordeaux

Cold Winter in Bordeaux
  • Author(s): Allan Massie
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940-45

The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes – himself an object of suspicion, with one son in Vichy and another with de Gaulle’s Free French...

Daughter of Catalonia

Daughter of Catalonia
  • Author(s): Jane MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Catalonia (France)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

1935. Luis, a charismatic Spaniard, elopes with Elise and they move to a small village in Catalonia. But little do they know that war will soon rip them apart. Some twenty years later, stifled by her life in England,...

De Niro’s Game

De Niro’s Game
  • Author(s): Rawi Hage
  • Location(s): Beirut, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corrupt city of their birth,...

Death in Bordeaux

Death in Bordeaux
  • Author(s): Allan Massie
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): WW2

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion...

Death in Pont-Aven

Death in Pont-Aven
  • Author(s): Jean-Luc Bannalec
  • Location(s): Pont-Aven
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A strange murder in an idyllic French seaside village, a major family tragedy, and a puzzling secret await Commissioner Dupin in this captivating whodunit thriller. At the Central Hotel in Pont Aven, Brittany, 91-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found...

Delicious Days in Paris: Walking Tours to Explore the City’s Food and Culture

Delicious Days in Paris: Walking Tours to Explore the City’s Food and Culture
  • Author(s): Jane Paech
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2015

Let food-lover and Paris expert Jane Paech show you around the city’s mille-feuille of history and culture, with its tempting pastry and chocolate shops on every corner Romantic, mouth-watering Paris—where do you start? With this guide, you’ll visit both...

Domina

Domina
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...

Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s

You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris...

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