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Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness
  • Author(s): Zoé de Las Cases
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wander through picturesque streets, visit quirky shops and cafes, and enjoy a uniquely French way of life in the course of these pages. As you focus on colouring in and forget the stresses of everyday life, you’ll find calm...

The Black Notebook

The Black Notebook
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

Set in Montparnasse, Paris. A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty years previously. Set in the...

The Bleeding

The Bleeding
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec, Paris
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

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 Cover Wife

The Cover Wife
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...

The Girl with No Shadow

The Girl with No Shadow
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This is the same book as “The Lollipop Shoes”

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1482

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In...

The Joyce Girl

The Joyce Girl
  • Author(s): Annabel Abbs
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1928 Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music, literature and dance. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer, training with some of the world s most...

The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Since her daughter went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been a woman alone. Her only companion her camera. Since Lizzie disappeared, she has blamed and isolated herself, given up hope. Until, out of the blue,...

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