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Parfums

Parfums
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel
  • Location(s): Lorraine
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father’s aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir....

Paris For One

Paris For One
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away – to anywhere – before. Travelling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up, she has...

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A bit of history, wry observations – this is a light hearted look at Paris, informative and easy to read.

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France
  • Author(s): Adam Gopnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Commissioned by The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries in Paris to the Moon. A self-described “comic-sentimental essayist”,...

Paris, My Sweet

Paris, My Sweet
  • Author(s): Amy Thomas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris My Sweet is a memoir of a year in the life of thirty-six year old Amy, who works for Louis Vuitton. It is a guide book in part to the Paris bakeries, part love letter to this great...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Perfume from Provence

Perfume from Provence
  • Author(s): Lady Fortescue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

The original story of falling for France, Perfume from Provence was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when...

Playdate

Playdate
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Norway, Ariège, Sandefjord, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction.   Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, her mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round...

Poppy Does Paris

Poppy Does Paris
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The first instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you’re...

Run Away

Run Away
  • Author(s): Alex Johnson
  • Location(s): Australia, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

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