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The Maid

The Maid
  • Author(s): Kimberly Cutter
  • Location(s): Orléans
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1400s

It is the early part of the fifteenth century and the tumultuous Hundred Years War rages on. The French city of Orleans is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside wreaking destruction on all who cross their path,...

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
  • Author(s): Sandra Gulland
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half the 18th Century

‘You will be unhappily wed. You will be widowed. You will be Queen.’ To fourteen-year-old Rose, eldest daughter of a poor plantation landlord, the fortune teller’s prophecy is both thrilling and laughable. Poorly educated and without a dowry, it...

The Messenger

The Messenger
  • Author(s): Megan Davis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wealthy and privileged, Alex has an easy path to success in the Parisian elite his father mingles with. But the two have never seen eye to eye. Desperate to escape the increasingly suffocating atmosphere of their apartment, Alex seeks...

The Milliner’s Secret

The Milliner’s Secret
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration. Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth...

The Missing Italian Girl

The Missing Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Barbara Corrado Pope
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Belle Epoque (turn of the 19th century)

In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two...

The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon

The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon
  • Author(s): Sarah Steele
  • Location(s): South London, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1960s

Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone. But things change...

The Mistress of Paris

The Mistress of Paris
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept...

The Monte Carlo Connection

The Monte Carlo Connection
  • Author(s): Josie Goodbody
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s / Contemporary

Diamond detective, Jemima Fox is tasked with hunting down the priceless Vogel Vanderpless diamonds that were stolen in The Diamond Connection by her nemesis Petrina Lindberg. She finds herself caught between searching for half-a-century-year-old stolen jewels and catching a...

The Mystery of Henri Pick

The Mystery of Henri Pick
  • Author(s): David Foenkinos
  • Location(s): Crozon
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4’s Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected...

The Olive Harvest

The Olive Harvest
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The third episode of a bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM,… “The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras...

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