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I Remember Paris

I Remember Paris
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s nowhere quite like Paris, as journalist and single mum Jess Bright knows all too well. She’s never forgotten the love, friendship and freedom she enjoyed there in her twenties. So when she’s offered a writing job in the...

I’ll Take The Fire

I’ll Take The Fire
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Morocco, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives....

I, Mona Lisa

I, Mona Lisa
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): Florence, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 16th Century to present

In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...

If You Are There

If You Are There
  • Author(s): Susan Sherman
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling...

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
  • Author(s): Simon Kuper
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer’s tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He...

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

In Mozart’s Shadow:  His Sister’s Story
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

Intrigue in Paris

Intrigue in Paris
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2007

Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...

Isadora

Isadora
  • Author(s): Amelia Gray
  • Location(s): Paris, Greece, Italy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1913

As dynamic, enthralling, and powerful as the visionary artist it captures, Amelia Gray’s Isadora is a relentless and living portrayal of a woman who shattered convention, even in the darkest days of her life. In 1913, Isadora Duncan was...

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Isla and the Happily Ever After
  • Author(s): Stephanie Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on brooding artist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And, after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer break, romance might be closer than Isla...

Islands of Mercy

Islands of Mercy
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Borneo, Bath, Dublin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1865 onwards

She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...

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