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Villa America

Villa America
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and...

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): France, Geneva, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

Where My Heart Used to Beat

Where My Heart Used to Beat
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his...

Wildest Dreams

Wildest Dreams
  • Author(s): Jennifer Blake
  • Location(s): Italy, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid1800s and Modern

Two extraordinary women – 150 years apart – search Europe for a special perfume, and their own secret hearts for the thing that matters most…. The perfume is legendary, once worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine — and made...

Will Do Magic for Small Change

Will Do Magic for Small Change
  • Author(s): Andrea Hairston
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Paris, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Late 19th century, Modern

Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But at 5’10’’ and 180 pounds, she’s theatrically challenged. Her family life is a tangle of mystery and deadly secrets,...

Winter Flowers

Winter Flowers
  • Author(s): Angelique Villeneuve, Adriana Hunter (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

It’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn’t seen growing up. He is not coming back from the front line but from...

Woman in Blue and White

Woman in Blue and White
  • Author(s): Janet Doolaege
  • Location(s): Paris, Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Zoe has split up with her boyfriend. Now, all she wants is to be safe, caring for small children in a Paris school. But a violent incident rocks her world, after which a colleague invites her to an idyllic...

Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen
  • Author(s): Ben Hatch
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family’s been attacked by...

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work: mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate: made entirely by hand, it is sold...

A Train in Winter

A Train in Winter
  • Author(s): Caroline Moorhead
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 - early 1940s

230 women from the French Resistance were captured, and taken to on a train to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. The first part chroncles the collapse of Vichy France, early 1940s, how the Nazis invaded Paris. It then...

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