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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work: mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate: made entirely by hand, it is sold...

Irene

Irene
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in...

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
  • Author(s): Jérôme Ferrari
  • Location(s): Algiers, Corsica, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The mysterious disappearance of Hayet, the manageress of the village bar, presents a conundrum for its owner, who cannot face a return to the days of late nights, lewd customers and greasy dishwater. A succession of would-be hosts and...

The Tattooist

The Tattooist
  • Author(s): Louise Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a man who will be anything you want. Who will listen attentively to every word you say and intuit everything you don’t. A man willing to explore all the dark corners of your body and your mind. A...

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
  • Author(s): Anstey Harris
  • Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...

The Paris Wife

The Paris Wife
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Europe, North America, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

The book starts out in Chicago, 1920. Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Author(s): Muriel Barbery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels,...

The Emperor of Paris

The Emperor of Paris
  • Author(s): C S Richardson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the...

A Jewish Girl in Paris

A Jewish Girl in Paris
  • Author(s): Melanie Levensohn
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 2006

In this vivid, affecting novel of intertwined destinies and the enduring power of love against the bleakest odds, Levensohn weaves a tale saturated with historical accuracy and yet surprisingly intimate. A Jewish Girl in Parisdelivers romance and intrigue to...

A Novel Bookstore

A Novel Bookstore
  • Author(s): Laurence Cosse
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ivan, a world traveller, and Italian heiress Francesca are the owners of an out-of-the-ordinary bookshop in a corner of Paris in which passion for literature overrides bestsellers and titles are chosen by a top-secret committee of like minded connoisseurs....

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