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A Stranger in Paris

A Stranger in Paris
  • Author(s): Karen Webb
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990

Aberystwyth University, 1986 – and another year of torrential rain. Bad hair days and a rugby-fanatic fiancé are part of her drab existence so who can blame Karen for falling into the arms of a handsome Parisian? Hastening across...

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s/80s

A Walk in Paris

A Walk in Paris
  • Author(s): Salvatore Rubbino
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris – the most beautiful city in the world! The most romantic! It’s the perfect place for a girl and her grandad to spend the day. Join them as they explore Paris’s iconic landmarks and experience its culture and...

A War of Flowers

A War of Flowers
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Germany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

British actress, Clara Vine, is in Paris to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mingling in Berlin society and passing snippets of information to her...

Absolutely and Forever

Absolutely and Forever
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Determined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s London How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly...

Adèle

Adèle
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed...

After Paris

After Paris
  • Author(s): Nicole Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three women take the same Eurostar to Paris for a girls’ trip, but take separate trains back. What happened that weekend? A thought-provoking and gripping novel about trying to hold on to friendships when you start to grow apart....

After the Circus

After the Circus
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and...

Ahead of the Shadows

Ahead of the Shadows
  • Author(s): A B Kyazze
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of), Paris, Sudan
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2003, 2022

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure, and it’s not certain if their...

All The Devils Are Here

All The Devils Are Here
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a...

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