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Three Weeks in Paris

Three Weeks in Paris
  • Author(s): Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The latest novel from the genuinely bestselling author of seventeen compelling novels, from A Woman of Substance to The Triumph of Katie Byrne. As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay...

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer
  • Author(s): Henry Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating...

Who Needs Mr Darcy?

Who Needs Mr Darcy?
  • Author(s): Jean Burnett
  • Location(s): England, Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Earlier 19th Century

Mr Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in many ways, the most notable being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. And so Lydia Wickham, nee Bennet, still not twenty and ever-full of an enterprising spirit,...

Zenith Hotel

Zenith Hotel
  • Author(s): Oscar Coop-Phane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella

I’m a street prostitute. Not a call girl or anything. No, a real street whore, with stiletto heels and menthol cigarettes. Narrator Nanou gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul...

It Happened in Paris

It Happened in Paris
  • Author(s): Molly Hopkins
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

the first in the “It Happened in…” series. Evie Dexter is in pursuit of a career as a European tour guide. Heart set on success and buoyed on by booze, she begins ‘enhancing’ her CV and soon lands a...

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human
  • Author(s): Peter Gethers
  • Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

A short book that tells the story of Norton, a Scottish Fold kitten that the writer’s girlfriend Cindy bought for him – but he isn’t a cat lover (at the outset). He becomes his adorable companion on his trips...

Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Berlin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1990s

Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...

The Hare with Amber Eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes
  • Author(s): Edmund de Waal
  • Location(s): Paris, Tokyo, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1870s onwards

de Waal is one of Britain’s most well known potters and this is the story of a collection of netsuke, inherited from his Uncle. This is their story, which starts in Paris in the 1870s,where they were purchased by...

An Unexpected Guest

An Unexpected Guest
  • Author(s): Anne Korkeakivi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, past

Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day...

Deus ex Machina

Deus ex Machina
  • Author(s): Sparkle Hayter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Two stories come together to make a rollercoaster ride through Paris. A starving writer splurges on a cab ride in Paris, she ends up on an unexpected journey…

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