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A Year in the Merde

A Year in the Merde
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The essence of the book lies just under the surface – an accurate portrayal of an Englishmen delving into the French system and all that involves. Full of humour and wry observations.

After the Crash

After the Crash
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s/1990s

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

Alex

Alex
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is...

Breaking Point

Breaking Point
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread – his resignation letter parked in his superior’s desk draw...

Dream of Paris

Dream of Paris
  • Author(s): Paula Martin
  • Location(s): England, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Richards has a dream of going to live and study in Paris, but when Matthew Carlton comes into her life, her dream changes direction. Attraction sparks between them, but Matt’s behaviour is strangely inconsistent. Anna is shocked when...

Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies
  • Author(s): Cynthia Ozick
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...

From Paris with Love

From Paris with Love
  • Author(s): Samantha Tonge
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fun-loving Gemma Goodwin knows she should be revelling in her happy-ever-after. Except when her boyfriend Lord Edward popped the question, after a whirlwind romance, although she didn’t say no….she didn’t exactly say yes either! A month-long cookery course in...

Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle

Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle
  • Author(s): H C Carlton
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

the author combines his inside knowledge of fashion with the brilliantly described main characters, with a touch of humour and atmosphere which perfectly evokes Paris of the heady 60s.

I Heart Paris

I Heart Paris
  • Author(s): Lindsey Kelk
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Angela is in the city of love – but romance is taking a nose-dive… When Angela Clark’s boyfriend Alex suggests a trip to Paris at the same time as hip fashion mag Belle asks her to write a piece,...

J’adore Paris

J’adore Paris
  • Author(s): Isabelle LaFleche
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When chic Parisian lawyer Catherine Lambert lands her dream job as intellectual property director for Christian Dior, she is on top of the world. She’s prepared to embark on the ride of her life in the world of fashion,...

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