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Scent of Triumph

Scent of Triumph
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Grasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...

Season of Light

Season of Light
  • Author(s): Katharine McMahon
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1700s (French Revolution)

It’s the summer of 1788 and Paris is ablaze with revolutionary ideas. Swept along in the excitement is Asa Ardleigh, a 19-year-old Englishwoman visiting the city with her newly-married sister, Philippa. At the literary salon of Madame de Genlis...

Seven Ages of Paris

Seven Ages of Paris
  • Author(s): Alistair Horne
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1300s to Modern

In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the...

Shiver

Shiver
  • Author(s): Allie Reynolds
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They don’t know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way. How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year....

Shooters

Shooters
  • Author(s): Julia Boggio
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stella Price is determined to become a successful wedding photographer, even if it means learning from Connor Knight, a wedding shooter with sexy rock star status and an ego to match. Burned by an affair that ended her last...

Significance

Significance
  • Author(s): Jo Mazelis
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s cut and dyed her hair and bought new clothes, but she’s only got as far as a small town in northern France when her flight is violently cut short. When...

Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

Sleeping People Lie

Sleeping People Lie
  • Author(s): Jae de Wylde
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Paris, France, and attractive, vibrant 26-year-old Sloane from Stamford, England, meets Nicholas, a writer and artist from Boston, USA, and ten years her senior. The attraction is immediate. Sloane believes that she has found the love of her life....

Sleeping with Paris

Sleeping with Paris
  • Author(s): Juliette Sobanet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when...

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