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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...

Jazz Moon

Jazz Moon
  • Author(s): Joe Okonkwo
  • Location(s): Harlem, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In a lyrical, captivating debut set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, Joe Okonkwo creates an evocative story of emotional and artistic awakening. On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded...

Just Like Tomorrow

Just Like Tomorrow
  • Author(s): Faiza Guene
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Fifteen-year-old Doria isn’t in a good place. Or to be precise: she’s in the sadly misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back Morocco to find a wife who can give him a...

Katharine’s Wish

Katharine’s Wish
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau, Italy, London, Switzerland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In her new novel, Linda Lappin (author of THE ETRUSCAN) explores the final years in the life of short story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton Murry against the...

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
  • Author(s): Faiza Guene
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

The Paradise projects are only a few metro stops from Paris, but here it’s a whole different kind of France. Doria’s father, the Beard, has headed back to their hometown in Morocco, leaving her and her mom to cope...

Kiki de Montparnasse

Kiki de Montparnasse
  • Author(s): Catel, Jose-Luis Bocquet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1920s

In the bohemian and brilliant Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki managed to escape poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-garde years between the wars. Partner to Man Ray – whose most legendary photos she...

Kisses and Croissants

Kisses and Croissants
  • Author(s): Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As sweet as a macaron from Laduree, with writing as crisp as a freshly baked baguette, this romantic novel set in Paris about an American ballerina and a charming French boy is parfait for fans of American Royals and...

Kokoschka’s Doll

Kokoschka’s Doll
  • Author(s): Afonso Cruz
  • Location(s): Dresden, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

At the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice. But it doesn’t belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It...

Last Chance in Paris

Last Chance in Paris
  • Author(s): Lynda Marron
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets it. After the tragedy they’ve been through, how can one weekend in Paris save their marriage? Claire and Ronan aren’t the only people...

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