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Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice

Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Kathleen Benner Duble
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Celie Rosseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris to survive. It is 1789: rumours of rebellion against the monarchy are starting to spread in the...

Max the Detective Cat: The Catnap Caper

Max the Detective Cat: The Catnap Caper
  • Author(s): Sarah Todd Taylor, Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… The pampered cats of Paris are being kidnapped! Could it have something to do with a singing competition that...

Meet Me in Paris

Meet Me in Paris
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time—but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories...

Meet me in Venice

Meet me in Venice
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Paris, Venice
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Paris, Shanghai and Venice, the new novel of romantic suspense from Elizabeth Adler revolves around the fate of a valuable family heirloom – a gem-encrusted necklace – and the people who wish to profit from it at...

Merde at the Paris Olympics

Merde at the Paris Olympics
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): modern day

Merde at the Paris Olympics is the seventh title in the Merde series of comedy novels (A Year in the Merde, Merde Actually, Dial M for Merde et al) which have been translated into more than 20 languages and...

Mesmerised

Mesmerised
  • Author(s): Michelle Shine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1863

Dr Paul Gachet, the subject of van Gogh’s famous painting, is a doctor and artist, and – against the unwelcoming backdrop of 1860s Paris – a homeopath. He lives, loves and works alongside the rebellious group of artists who...

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
  • Author(s): Andrew Martin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Andrew Martin has been described as ‘the laureate of railways’, having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history...

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Ten years. Two people. One last visit… Sophie and Tom first visited Paris together as students. During their weekend away in the world’s most romantic city, falling in love – with the place, and each other – was simply...

Mistress of the Ritz

Mistress of the Ritz
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris from...

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Axelle Anderson: fashion’s most stylish detective. Despite her long legs and fashion-obsessed family, all Axelle wants to do is solve mysteries. So when star designer Belle La Lune vanishes, Axelle seizes the chance to go undercover as a...

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