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The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlie Howard – mystery writer and professional thief – is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the trade by breaking into the man’s own apartment. Trouble...

The House In Paris

The House In Paris
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bowen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century looking back

When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris...

The Ingredients of Love

The Ingredients of Love
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The day begins like any other Saturday for beautiful Parisian restaurateur Aurélie Bredin, until she wakes up to find her apartment empty – her boyfriend gone off with another woman. Heartbroken, Aurélie walks the streets of Paris in the...

The Ladies’ Paradise

The Ladies’ Paradise
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification. The Ladies’Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the...

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris
  • Author(s): Lynn Sheene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Claire is living a privliged life of a socialite in Manhattan, married to Russell, lover of Laurent. Russell is a German sympathiser and after revelations, Claire flees to Paris and finds herself part of the Resistance Movement.

The Last Van Gogh

The Last Van Gogh
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Auvers
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

This is the story of Van Gogh in the last couple of months of his life, which he spent in Auvers, under the treatment of Dr Gachet, physician with questionable ethics. Marguerite is his daughter, who is inexorably drawn...

The Light Behind the Window

The Light Behind the Window
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This novel is the same book as The Lavender Garden The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world...

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): Paris, Tahiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Montmartre
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to No.12 Rue des Amants A beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of Montmartre. A place of twisting staircases, locked rooms, watchful eyes from every window. A place of murder. One resident is missing. And another...

The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)

The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1800s and Modern

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are...

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