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Murder on the Ile St-Louis

Murder on the Ile St-Louis
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

Aimee is alerted to a foundling, with whom she develops an attachment. Aimee is a sometime detective, in the backgroun is also her pain surrounding her own childhood experiences.

My Life in France

My Life in France
  • Author(s): Julia Child
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, a ‘six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she spoke barely a few words of French, and didn’t know the first thing about cooking. ‘What’s a shallot?’ she asked her husband...

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
  • Author(s): Douglas Cowie
  • Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

Ominous: Borders: Coffee

Ominous: Borders: Coffee
  • Author(s): Peter Standish Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in PARIS, this thriller surges ominously through the psyche of modern Europe. Conflict is rife: danger is everywhere. You will be tempted to trawl through Paris, to drink in the bars, or smoke on dark street corners. Be...

One Last Secret

One Last Secret
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Southern France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One last client. A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France – it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning and discreet escort and Daniel has paid for her services before....

One Night At The Château

One Night At The Château
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Barles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Over the last few months, Connie’s whole world has fallen apart. Her husband’s run off with an older woman, the magazine she works for has gone bust and she’s having to sell the family home. So when her beloved...

One Summer in Provence

One Summer in Provence
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Celia Grey appears to have the perfect life: married to Dominic, the man of her dreams, and living on a glorious, thriving vineyard in the south of France. To celebrate their good fortune, she decides to throw a huge...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Overseas

Overseas
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century and Modern

‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...

Paris

Paris
  • Author(s): Edward Rutherfurd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams.Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that...

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