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Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • Location(s): Paris, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

1960s. Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster’s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the...

Almost French

Almost French
  • Author(s): Sarah Turnbull
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready...

A Long Night In Paris

A Long Night In Paris
  • Author(s): Dov Alfon
  • Location(s): Paris, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When an Israeli tech entrepreneur disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200’s...

A Love Letter to Paris

A Love Letter to Paris
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The pretty little streets of Montmartre are abuzz with a rumour. Apparently a mystery matchmaker, known only as ‘Paris Cupid’, has somehow helped the city’s most famous bachelor find love. But old-fashioned romantic Lilou is staying very quiet. She’d...

A Murder in Paris

A Murder in Paris
  • Author(s): Matthew Blake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O. Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London....

A Paris Fairy Tale

A Paris Fairy Tale
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is Paris the city of happily ever afters? Workaholic art historian Aurora Black doesn’t have time for fairy tales or Prince Charmings, even in the most romantic city in the world. She has recently been hired by a Parisian...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...

A Place of Greater Safety

A Place of Greater Safety
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And...

A Springtime to Remember

A Springtime to Remember
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Paris and the Palace of Versailles have always meant a lot to TV producer Lexie. Her grandma Viv spent a year there, but her adventures and memories were never discussed, and Lexie has long wondered why they were a...

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...

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