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Every Day, Every Hour

Every Day, Every Hour
  • Author(s): Natasa Dragnic
  • Location(s): Croatia, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s to 2008

Dora and Luka are inseparable: ever since he fainted at the sight of her – walking into the classroom with her new schoolbag – and she woke him with a chaste kiss, it has been love at first sight....

Murder in Paris

Murder in Paris
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The City of Light is anything but light when a killer stalks the cobblestone streets… For a woman who loves fashion, there is no place on earth more exciting than Paris where the clothes are to die for and...

The Chocolate Kiss

The Chocolate Kiss
  • Author(s): Laura Florand
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

At La Maison des Sorcieres, the window display is an enchanted forest of sweets, a collection of conical hats delights the eye and the habitues nibble chocolate witches from fanciful mismatched china. While in their tiny blue kitchen, Magalie...

The Perfect Scent

The Perfect Scent
  • Author(s): Chandler Burr
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Follow the creation in NYC of the scent ‘Lovely’ for Sarah Jessica Parker. And in Paris follow how Hermes sets about creating ‘Un Jardin sur le Nil’ – facts about (170,000 bottles of fragrance are sold in France every...

The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
  • Author(s): Sophie Hardach
  • Location(s): Germany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When...

The Woman in the Fifth

The Woman in the Fifth
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. I arrived a few days after Christmas. It was a wet grey morning – the sky the colour of dirty chalk: the...

Last Train to Istanbul

Last Train to Istanbul
  • Author(s): Ayse Kulin
  • Location(s): Ankara, Berlin, Cairo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court...

Painted Ladies

Painted Ladies
  • Author(s): Lynn Bushell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1917

Paris 1917. For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard’s companion and muse. His new model Renee, lovely and captivating, thinks it’s time her rival stepped aside. But Marthe won’t give up her place in history without...

The Ambassador’s Daughter

The Ambassador’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

Paris, 1919. The world s leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbours dark secrets anddangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the...

The Paris Option

The Paris Option
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Algeria, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller

A horrific explosion destroys the Paris lab of computer genius Emile Chambord on the eve of his breakthrough in the development of a revolutionary molecular DNA computer that has the ability to control virtually all the world’s computerized operations....

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