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Every Spy a Traitor

Every Spy a Traitor
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): London, Germany, Moscow, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage
  • Era(s): late 1930s

Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy...

Everything Love Is

Everything Love Is
  • Author(s): Claire King
  • Location(s): Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other people’s happiness. Moored on his beloved houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, he helps his clients navigate the waters of contentment, whilst remaining careful never to make waves of his own....

Farewell Dinner for a Spy

Farewell Dinner for a Spy
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Laos, London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a ‘double-dipper’ the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor. Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending...

Fatima’s Good Fortune

Fatima’s Good Fortune
  • Author(s): J & G Dryansky
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

She can change your life. If only she could change her own…deep in the heart of romantic Paris, in the elegant Sixteenth Arrondissement, at the top of a smart apartment building on Avenue Victor-Hugo, on the sixth floor at...

Five Nights in Paris

Five Nights in Paris
  • Author(s): John Baxter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

As he takes you through five of the city’s greatest neighborhoods—Montmartre, Montparnasse, the Marais, and more—Baxter shares pithy anecdotes about his life in France, as well as fascinating knowledge he has gleaned from leading literary tours of the city...

French Lessons

French Lessons
  • Author(s): Ellen Sussman
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The only thing that lasts is love, even when it’s gone. Three French tutors meet at a small café that spills out onto the sunny Parisian backstreet of Rue du Paradis. Nico, Philippe and Chantal meet here every Wednesday...

From Here To Paris – Get Laid Off, Buy a Barge in France, Take It To Paris

From Here To Paris – Get Laid Off, Buy a Barge in France, Take It To Paris
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France, Paris

The perky young Vice President of Human Resources touched me on the shoulder and said, “Have a nice life.” That moment, standing in the parking lot with my personal possessions in a cardboard box and my severance papers stuffed...

From here, you can’t see Paris

From here, you can’t see Paris
  • Author(s): Michael Sanders
  • Location(s): Les Arques
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

A fascinating memoir about life in Les Arques, a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, and its magical restaurant

From Italy with Love

From Italy with Love
  • Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Home-loving Laurie thinks she’s happy – she has a safe, reliable boyfriend and working in her local library is what she thought she always wanted. That is until she inherits a vintage Ferrari from her eccentric Uncle Miles and...

Girl In Danger

Girl In Danger
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Hall’s first summer in Paris promises to be idyllic. She’s fallen in love with the city and enjoys her new job as an investigative reporter. When her friend Nina comes to stay, the girls look forward to a...

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