Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Madame Picasso

Madame Picasso
  • Author(s): Anne Girard
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumier at the famous Moulin Rouge and it is here...

Madeleine

Madeleine
  • Author(s): Euan Cameron
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and WW2

“A beautifully written and moving story of love and betrayal that casts light on the ‘Dark Years’ of French history, 1940-44.” ALLAN MASSIE Family history has always been a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk...

Madeline

Madeline
  • Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…’ Something is not right with little Madeline. Her friends are sad when she goes to hospital to have her appendix...

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

Mission to Paris

Mission to Paris
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn...

Mr Chicken Goes to Paris

Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
  • Author(s): Leigh Hobbs
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Mr Chicken has left the safe world of Harriet’s story and sets off on a global adventure. He’s visiting Paris and, like a good tourist, he’s doing all the famous sites, accompanied by his friend, Yvette. But it’s not...

Murder in Clichy

Murder in Clichy
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimée Leduc, private investigator specializing in computer security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in Paris by her partner René Friant. He urges her to learn to meditate: she could use a more healthful approach to life....

Paris Mon Amour

Paris Mon Amour
  • Author(s): Isabel Costello
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Alexandra discovers that her husband Philippe is having an affair, she can’t believe he’d risk losing the love that has transformed both their lives. Still in shock, Alexandra finds herself powerfully attracted to a much younger man. Jean-Luc...

Paris Spring

Paris Spring
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life....

Red Is My Heart

Red Is My Heart
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (Translator), Le Sonneur (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Novella
  • Era(s): Present

How can you mend a broken heart? Do you write a letter to the woman who left you – and post it to an imaginary address? Buy a new watch, to reset your life? Or get rid of the...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now