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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...

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...

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