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Glorious Poison

Glorious Poison
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): French Revolution, 18th century

The daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn’s epic C18th French Revolution trilogy ‘with lashings of lust, love, sacrifice, betrayal and horror’. Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L’Aubespine...

Going After Cacciato

Going After Cacciato
  • Author(s): Tim O'Brien
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War and aftermath

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciatocaptures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier...

Gourmet Rhapsody

Gourmet Rhapsody
  • Author(s): Muriel Barbery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining and witty” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’. In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in ‘The...

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
  • Author(s): Agnes Martin-Lugand
  • Location(s): Paris, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Diane, owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cosy coffee shop turned library in Paris, seems to have the perfect life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, her life is...

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider–brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that...

Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series)

Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series)
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Paris, The Cotswolds, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Suspense
  • Era(s): 19th - 21st century

On Madison Greene’s sixteenth birthday, she inherits a mansion with sinister secrets. Sucked into a nightmare that spans the centuries, she must fight to save the ones she loves. Alexandre is an eighteen-year-old French aristocrat with arrogance and charm....

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
  • Author(s): Robin Scott-Elliot
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1942

Paris, 1942. When Amelie Dreyfus hides in her mother’s wardrobe it’s a game; when she comes out it’s a matter of life or death. With her family taken, Amelie has to fend for herself in Nazi-occupied France – she’s...

Honour Thyself

Honour Thyself
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel – and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set...

Hopscotch

Hopscotch
  • Author(s): Julio Cortázar
  • Location(s): Paris, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the...

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
  • Author(s): Anne Berest
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Self-help
  • Era(s): 2014

How To Be Parisian brilliantly deconstructs the French woman’s views on culture, fashion and attitude. Bohemian free-thinkers and iconoclasts, Anne Berest, Caroline De Maigret, Audrey Diwan and Sophie Mas cut through the myths in this gorgeous, witty guide to...

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