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Sarab

Sarab
  • Author(s): Raja Alem
  • Location(s): Paris, Mecca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979

November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a...

Scandalous Alchemy

Scandalous Alchemy
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Regency

Fontainebleau in 1825 is a glittering international court, rich with intrigue, passion and simmering violence. Lieutenant Colonel Kit Helford must navigate these treacherous waters to deliver the beautiful, self-destructive Princess Royal to her prospective husband. Kit’s childhood friend, Clemency...

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company
  • Author(s): Sylvia Beach
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left...

Sharpe’s Assassin

Sharpe’s Assassin
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1815

Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it’s been his home ever since. He’s a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable...

Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Sightseeing, a novella, 25,500 words, is set in Paris, France, time span twenty-four hours. A man, Wayne, and a woman, Diane (or maybe Diane, for her name might not be Diane), meet and pursue an instant relationship in which...

Sky Chasers

Sky Chasers
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphan Magpie can’t believe her eyes when she sees a boy swept off his feet by a kite … or something that twists and dances in the wind. She goes to his rescue only to find herself dangling in...

Skylark

Skylark
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660s / 1939

1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him...

Smoking Kills

Smoking Kills
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

-How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? In this witty black comedy, Laurain’s anti-hero can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime… When head-hunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to...

Someday in Paris

Someday in Paris
  • Author(s): Olivia Lara
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th century

This Christmas, it’s time to lose yourself in an unforgettable love story… 1954. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon one wintery night in December. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend...

Strangled in Paris

Strangled in Paris
  • Author(s): Claude Izner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case....

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