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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...

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness
  • Author(s): Zoé de Las Cases
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wander through picturesque streets, visit quirky shops and cafes, and enjoy a uniquely French way of life in the course of these pages. As you focus on colouring in and forget the stresses of everyday life, you’ll find calm...

Strapless

Strapless
  • Author(s): Deborah Davis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

The story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting “Madame X” that propelled the artist to international renown but condemned his subject to a life of public ridicule.

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

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