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In the Café of Lost Youth

In the Café of Lost Youth
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother...

Intrigue in Paris

Intrigue in Paris
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...

Invitation to Provence

Invitation to Provence
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A Grandmother sets about gathering her brood around her. The real charm is the combination of disparate character who attend. An absorbing read and beautifully brings Provence to life.

It’s not love, It’s just Paris

It’s not love, It’s just Paris
  • Author(s): Patricia Engel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lita finds herself in Paris to continue her education. New money versus old money and love! Lita is an outsider from an originally poor background who is trying to find her way in.

Jackdaws

Jackdaws
  • Author(s): Ken Follett
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): End of WW2

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications – but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a...

Jigsaw

Jigsaw
  • Author(s): Sybille Bedford
  • Location(s): Europe, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW1 - WW2

This book describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German chateau for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother...

Just a Little Dinner

Just a Little Dinner
  • Author(s): Cécile Tlili, Katherine Gregor (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Parisians behaving badly: a dinner party implodes in this darkly compelling tale, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Day. In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet...

Just for the Holidays

Just for the Holidays
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Alsace
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The #1 bestselling author returns for summer! Grab your sun hat, a cool glass of wine, and the only book you need on holiday… In theory, nothing could be better than a summer spent basking in the French sun....

Kill Shot

Kill Shot
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians including his own girlfriend in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing – bullet by bullet. His next...

L’Auberge

L’Auberge
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees has been thrown into turmoil by the revelation that the Auberge des Deux Vallées has been bought by an English couple and not by the Mayor’s brother-in-law as had been...

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