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Noor-un-Nissa Inyat Khan

Noor-un-Nissa Inyat Khan
  • Author(s): Sufiya Ahmed
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan. It’s 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to stand by while Nazi forces...

Old Goriot

Old Goriot
  • Author(s): Honore Balzac
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post French Revolution

A witty and reflective study of the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution, and the two great human obsessions – love and money – Honoré de Balzac’s Old Goriot is part of the immortal La Comédie humaine, translated from the...

Olivia

Olivia
  • Author(s): Dorothy Strachey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The classic novel about a teenage girl’s infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia–based loosely on the author’s own life–was first published...

One in a Million

One in a Million
  • Author(s): Margaret Gayle
  • Location(s): Paris, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

Marcy Telford’s life as a struggling copywriter changed overnight when she won a fourteen-million-dollar lottery. Nearly every kook in Canada besieged her. Twenty-four-hours later she found herself in Paris with Josh McQuade, her big-hearted bodyguard. Marcy wanted to forget...

One Night in Paris

One Night in Paris
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Brittany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Claire Cousteau is one of France’s most respected biologists, with a seemingly perfect family life. But beneath the surface, frustration grows in her marriage and in the silence around her husband’s affairs. As Claire and her family prepare for...

One Summer In Paris

One Summer In Paris
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One charming bookshop, two unlikely friends, and a summer in Paris that will change their lives forever… Grace can’t believe it when her husband of twenty-five years announces he doesn’t want to join her on their anniversary trip to...

One True Sentence

One True Sentence
  • Author(s): Craig McDonald
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

February, 1924: an incredible exchange rate, lack of prohibition and post-war ennui have flooded the City of Light with thousands of Americans — the psychologically damaged members of the so-called Lost Generation. The cafés, bistros and garrets of Paris...

Overture

Overture
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): South West France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1897-1914

She has a burning ambition, but everything conspires against her dreams. France, 1897. Born to a modest farming family, Marie-Thérèse has a remarkable singing voice and wants to become a professional singer. But too many obstacles, including her parents’...

Painting Paris

Painting Paris
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908 and 1937

Paris 1908. In Montmartre painters are creating works that will change the way we see life. Some do it better than others, some fall victims to the pursuit of love as well as art. But it’s a time to...

Paris Blue

Paris Blue
  • Author(s): Julie Scolnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc,...

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