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Two Days in Biarritz

Two Days in Biarritz
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Biarritz, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They’re chalk and cheese but always the best of friends . . . until Biarritz! Meet best friends Kate and Annabel, all set to celebrate a big birthday in style. And where better to do it than the chic...

The Paris Wife

The Paris Wife
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Europe, North America, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

The book starts out in Chicago, 1920. Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Author(s): Muriel Barbery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels,...

The Emperor of Paris

The Emperor of Paris
  • Author(s): C S Richardson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the...

A Foreign Country

A Foreign Country
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): England, France, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s onwards

Amelia Levene is about to become Head of SIS (MI6), but goes missing. Thomas Kell, an MI6 officer, has been forced out in disgrace following an incident in Afghanistan – he is asked however, in secret, to find out...

A Jewish Girl in Paris

A Jewish Girl in Paris
  • Author(s): Melanie Levensohn
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 2006

In this vivid, affecting novel of intertwined destinies and the enduring power of love against the bleakest odds, Levensohn weaves a tale saturated with historical accuracy and yet surprisingly intimate. A Jewish Girl in Parisdelivers romance and intrigue to...

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....

A Piano in the Pyrenees

A Piano in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Tony Hawks
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The French Pyrenees become Hawks’ new new home and as he tries to settle in, he recounts many of his adventures with the native folk, the struggles trying to get things done – all with insight and humour.

A Year in the Merde

A Year in the Merde
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The essence of the book lies just under the surface – an accurate portrayal of an Englishmen delving into the French system and all that involves. Full of humour and wry observations.

About Uncle

About Uncle
  • Author(s): Jordan Stump (Translator), Rebecca Gisler
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata. At an age when she’d rather...

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