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The House I Loved

The House I Loved
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the...

The House in France: A Memoir

The House in France: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Gully Wells
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (looking back)

In 2009, six years after her mother’s death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother – the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): France, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Author(s): Brian Selznnick
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlock with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo’s...

The Island Escape

The Island Escape
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Corsica, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Can one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Fans of Veronica Henry and Erica James, this is the next book to add to your reading list. It’s time to get back to where it all began… Octavia Sheldon...

The Island of Mists and Miracles

The Island of Mists and Miracles
  • Author(s): Victoria Mas
  • Location(s): Île de Batz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Early 19th Century

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which...

The Jazz Flower

The Jazz Flower
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child. In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two more children. But it is...

The Last Great Dance on Earth

The Last Great Dance on Earth
  • Author(s): Sandra Gulland
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

The 3rd Book in the Josephine P Trilogy. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Napoléon and his beloved Joséphine inhabit the Tuileries Palace. During the years they have been married it has been a time of extraordinary turmoil...

The Last Hours in Paris

The Last Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Ruth Druart
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris can do strange things to a man’s mind… like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. ‘The Death of Socrates’ is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can...

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