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Paris by the Book

Paris by the Book
  • Author(s): Liam Callanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it’s easy to lose someone… Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her husband disappeared. Early one morning, he walked out the door and never...

Paris Can’t Save Us

Paris Can’t Save Us
  • Author(s): Bella Thrower
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Paris Can’t Save Us, Claire and Luke, a couple seeking a fresh start and a chance to further Claire’s career, move to the City of Light for a year. Amidst the enchanting backdrop of the Parisian cafes and...

Paris France

Paris France
  • Author(s): Gertrude Stein
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 20th Century

In Paris France (1940)–published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik–Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a...

Paris in Disguise

Paris in Disguise
  • Author(s): Richard Wake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Paris is cold and hungry. The Germans are in the fourth year of their occupation, and while a Resistance movement flourishes, it is small and perilous beyond belief. The lives of Resistance radio operators can be measured in weeks,...

Paris in the Twentieth Century

Paris in the Twentieth Century
  • Author(s): Jules Verne
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his...

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Paris Is Always a Good Idea
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Then one day when an elderly gentleman trips up in her shop and knocks over a post-card stand, it seems that her wish cards are working after all. Rosalie finds out that it is Max Marchais, famed and successful...

Paris Requiem

Paris Requiem
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The...

Paris Tales

Paris Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Constantine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

If you’ve never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who...

Paris Trance

Paris Trance
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story about two couples in their twenties in Paris enjoying life and having fun.

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light
  • Author(s): Edith de Belleville
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various centuries

When your best girl friend is Coco Chanel, your life can’t be too dull. When your enemy is Napoléon, your life can’t be too ordinary either. And when you are flirting with Hemingway at the Ritz bar in Paris,...

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