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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 Sunday in Ville-d’Avray

A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray
  • Author(s): Dominique Barbéris, John Cullen (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a Sunday in early September and a woman leaves muggy Paris to visit her sister in the western suburbs of the city. Ville-d’Avray is less than an hour away, but it seems like another world with its secluded...

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...

A Whale in Paris

A Whale in Paris
  • Author(s): Daniel Presley, Claire Polders
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II (1944)

A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a lost whale during the German occupation of Paris in World War II, and together they embark on a journey to find their families and liberate France. A novel for younger readers (10+)....

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...

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