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The Secret Ways of Perfume

The Secret Ways of Perfume
  • Author(s): Cristina Caboni
  • Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...

The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

The Paris Daughter

The Paris Daughter
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A heartwrenching and evocative wartime novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore and Lucinda Riley. Two mothers. Two daughters. Two families torn apart forever. Paris, 1939. Elise and Juliette are certain nothing can come between them. So,...

The Mirror of Simple Souls

The Mirror of Simple Souls
  • Author(s): Aline Kiner, Susan Emanuel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1300s

A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love… It’s 1310 and Paris is alive with talk of the trial of the Templars. Religious repression is on the rise, and the smoke of execution pyres blackens the sky above...

The Last Restaurant in Paris

The Last Restaurant in Paris
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...

The Beasts of Paris

The Beasts of Paris
  • Author(s): Stef Penney
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war. Anne is a former patient from a women’s asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn’t...

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral
  • Author(s): Darlene Foster
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): current

Amanda is in love! With Paris – the city of love. She’s in awe of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and Notre Dame Cathedral. While there, she gets to work as a volunteer and stay...

Paris Requiem

Paris Requiem
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

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