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Murder in the Bastille

Murder in the Bastille
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket for dinner at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district, but is chagrined to see the woman at the very next table wearing an identical jacket. When...

Murder in the Sentier

Murder in the Sentier
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Once filled with fashionable mansions the historic Sentier district of Paris has nowadays fallen on hard times, housing the rag trade alongside sleazy nightclubs. Aimée Leduc finds herself drawn to the area when a woman, newly released from prison,...

My Life as as Silent Movie Star

My Life as as Silent Movie Star
  • Author(s): Jesse Lee Kercheval
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s forward

After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren’t the Americans who raised...

Paris For One

Paris For One
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away – to anywhere – before. Travelling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up, she has...

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A bit of history, wry observations – this is a light hearted look at Paris, informative and easy to read.

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France
  • Author(s): Adam Gopnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Commissioned by The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries in Paris to the Moon. A self-described “comic-sentimental essayist”,...

Paris, My Sweet

Paris, My Sweet
  • Author(s): Amy Thomas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris My Sweet is a memoir of a year in the life of thirty-six year old Amy, who works for Louis Vuitton. It is a guide book in part to the Paris bakeries, part love letter to this great...

Poppy Does Paris

Poppy Does Paris
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The first instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you’re...

Run Away

Run Away
  • Author(s): Alex Johnson
  • Location(s): Australia, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

Secrets of Paris

Secrets of Paris
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lydie McBride has always embraced life to the fullest. But when an unthinkable tragedy strikes her family, everything she believes in is shattered. Her art-historian husband, Michael, watches the passion disappear from Lydie’s eyes and from their marriage, and...

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