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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...

All the Flowers in Paris

All the Flowers in Paris
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s and 2000s

One mother’s desperate hope for survival. 1943: In occupied Paris, Celine creates bespoke bouquets at her father’s flower shop on rue Cler, whilst trying to shield her young daughter from the brutal reality of war. But when an SS...

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

All the Ways We Said Goodbye
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers...

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral
  • Author(s): Darlene Foster
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): current

Amanda is in love! With Paris – the city of love. She’s in awe of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and Notre Dame Cathedral. While there, she gets to work as a volunteer and stay...

Another Country

Another Country
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): London, Mumbai (Bombay), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning ‘Saraswati Park’. Paris, London, Bombay: three cities form a backdrop to a journey through Leela’s twenties at the dawn...

Appointment in Paris

Appointment in Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Following an acclaimed debut outing, Harry Fox, an MI5 Watcher, now suspended, and his associate Stella Fry are reunited during Britain’s darkest hour in this gripping espionage thriller. April 1940, and Britain is in turmoil. Chamberlain’s government is faltering,...

April in Paris

April in Paris
  • Author(s): Michael Wallner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

When people on Paris’s bustling streets look at Michael Roth, they see little more than a Parisian student, a quietly spoken young man with a book under his arm, handsome but guarded. What they do not realize is that...

Art Collector’s Daughter

Art Collector’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Derville Murphy
  • Location(s): Paris, Dublin, Wexford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): World War II and the present day

A gripping psychological thriller set between Paris and Wexford, Ireland during World war II and the present day. As the German’s march on Paris, a French art collector sends his daughter Sylvie, and his valuable collection to rural Ireland...

As The Eagle Flies

As The Eagle Flies
  • Author(s): Nolwenn Le Blevennec, Madeleine Rogers (translator)
  • Location(s): Northern France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A subtle, singular novel of profound insight, delivered in a voice so hilarious, intimate and frank, it was as if I suddenly had a zany French genius for my best friend. I enjoyed this book so much it felt...

Bad Marie

Bad Marie
  • Author(s): Marcy Dermansky
  • Location(s): Paris, Manhattan, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is...

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