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Lady at the Lodge

Lady at the Lodge
  • Author(s): Graham Ley
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Napoleonic

This is the third novel in the saga of the Wentworth family. Rumours of a planned French invasion of Britain in 1796 have reached the British government. Amid the uncertainty, the Anglo-Breton Wentworth family continue to move forward with...

Lessons in French

Lessons in French
  • Author(s): Hilary Reyl
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

First love: first heartbreak. First job: first nightmare boss. A seductive coming-of-age tale set in the most romantic city on earth. Fresh out of university and determined to dream big, Kate can hardly believe her luck when she lands...

Little Culinary Triumphs

Little Culinary Triumphs
  • Author(s): Pascal Pujol
  • Location(s): Montmartre
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandrine Cordier works in an office, but her daily routine is in no way as dull. Sandrine is a volcanic woman, full of ideas and energy, and a world-class cook who wants to open her own restaurant. An opportunity...

Losing Julia

Losing Julia
  • Author(s): Jonathan Hull
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Reflecting back to WW1

In a world torn apart by war, one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia…. Patrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on...

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Luncheon of the Boating Party
  • Author(s): Susan Vreeland
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This is the story set in the days of Renoir, based on the painting by him, of the same name as the title of the book. Renoir struggles with poverty and recognition of his work. All this bound into...

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
  • Author(s): Gustave Flaubert
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high...

Making the Break

Making the Break
  • Author(s): Sarah Yuen
  • Location(s): Chamonix
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A life of skiing, snow and sunshine in the French Alps. That was what one British couple had in mind when they gave up the 9 – 5 grind to run a ski chalet in Chamonix. With their toddler...

Marie

Marie
  • Author(s): Madeleine Bourdouxhe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A sensual and joyful story of desire and independence in 1930s Paris. Set among the bustling train stations and narrow rues of 1930s Paris, where the threat of war already hangs in the air, Marie is a hypnotically powerful novel about...

Mastering the Art of French Eating

Mastering the Art of French Eating
  • Author(s): Ann Mah
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Mastering the Art of French Eating The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris–one dish at a time. When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband’s given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann’s...

Mata Hari

Mata Hari
  • Author(s): Michelle Moran
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

From the international bestselling author of Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, infamous spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom . . ....

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