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Escape

Escape
  • Author(s): Dominique Manotti
  • Location(s): Milan, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

It’s1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first, Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the...

Escape to the French Farmhouse

Escape to the French Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Victoria Brownlee
  • Location(s): Paris, Chinon, Touraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

The heartwarming sequel to Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop. Ella moved to Paris on a whim – and found happily ever after. But after six months of romantic bliss, living with her French boyfriend, cheesemonger Serge, Ella’s new...

Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop

Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop
  • Author(s): Victoria Brownlee
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018

Who needs love when you can eat cheese? Heartbroken and on the cusp of turning 30, Ella decides to pack her bags and move to Paris, somewhere she had visited when she was a different, more adventurous person. It’s...

Exit Party

Exit Party
  • Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel
  • Location(s): California, Paris
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Future
  • Era(s): 2031 onwards

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going...

Eye Spy

Eye Spy
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’. Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase,...

Fiesta: The Sun also Rises

Fiesta: The Sun also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple...

Find Me

Find Me
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Paris, Florence, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of ‘Call Me by Your Name’ lets us back into his characters’ lives years after their first meeting In ‘Find Me’, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel,...

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

Forbidden Circles

Forbidden Circles
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1920s

It’s 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring...

Forever Paris

Forever Paris
  • Author(s): Jacques Lebor, David W Cox
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Monuments, museums, neighborhoods, streets, squares, parks and gardens – all you could ever wish to know about Paris

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