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Chéri

Chéri
  • Author(s): Colette
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Chéri – a playboy half her age....

From Here To Paris – Get Laid Off, Buy a Barge in France, Take It To Paris

From Here To Paris – Get Laid Off, Buy a Barge in France, Take It To Paris
  • Location(s): Burgundy, France, Paris

The perky young Vice President of Human Resources touched me on the shoulder and said, “Have a nice life.” That moment, standing in the parking lot with my personal possessions in a cardboard box and my severance papers stuffed...

The Dress Thief

The Dress Thief
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Alix Gower has a dream: to join the ranks of Coco Chanel to become a designer in the high-stakes world of Parisian haute couture. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs...

The Lying-Down Room

The Lying-Down Room
  • Author(s): Anna Jaquiery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris; in the stifling August heat, Commandant Serge Morel is called to a disturbing crime scene. An elderly woman has been murdered to the soundtrack of Faure’s Requiem, her body then grotesquely displayed. At first this strange case seems...

A Walk in Paris

A Walk in Paris
  • Author(s): Salvatore Rubbino
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris – the most beautiful city in the world! The most romantic! It’s the perfect place for a girl and her grandad to spend the day. Join them as they explore Paris’s iconic landmarks and experience its culture and...

Irene

Irene
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in...

Zenith Hotel

Zenith Hotel
  • Author(s): Oscar Coop-Phane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella

I’m a street prostitute. Not a call girl or anything. No, a real street whore, with stiletto heels and menthol cigarettes. Narrator Nanou gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul...

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human
  • Author(s): Peter Gethers
  • Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

A short book that tells the story of Norton, a Scottish Fold kitten that the writer’s girlfriend Cindy bought for him – but he isn’t a cat lover (at the outset). He becomes his adorable companion on his trips...

A Man’s Head

A Man’s Head
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret’s unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges...

A Novel Bookstore

A Novel Bookstore
  • Author(s): Laurence Cosse
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ivan, a world traveller, and Italian heiress Francesca are the owners of an out-of-the-ordinary bookshop in a corner of Paris in which passion for literature overrides bestsellers and titles are chosen by a top-secret committee of like minded connoisseurs....

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