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The Cult of Nostalgia

The Cult of Nostalgia
  • Author(s): Bruce Bruschi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1960s, modern

Carly, a ditsy life-coach with no clue of how to coach anyone, including herself, dashes to Paris to confront her ex-boyfriend who is honeymooning with a member of the Morningside cult and who has stolen Carly’s great-uncle’s diary.

The Dying Minutes

The Dying Minutes
  • Author(s): Martin O'Brien
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

In 1972 a gold bullion convoy is hijacked in Marseilles. The security trucks and hijackers are swiftly rounded up, but a ton of gold has disappeared. More than twenty years later, Daniel Jacquot receives an unexpected gift from an...

The French House

The French House
  • Author(s): Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it’s time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her...

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlie Howard – mystery writer and professional thief – is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the trade by breaking into the man’s own apartment. Trouble...

The Hotel Riviera

The Hotel Riviera
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany Box, and you’ll get the feel of my little hotel. It’s a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for...

The House In Paris

The House In Paris
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bowen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century looking back

When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris...

The House With The Lilac Shutters

The House With The Lilac Shutters
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Barnby
  • Location(s): England, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Irma Lagrasse has taught piano to three generations of villagers, whilst slowly twisting the knife of vengeance; Nico knows a secret; and M. Lenoir has discovered a suppressed and dangerous passion. Revolving around the Café Rose, opposite The House...

The Ingredients of Love

The Ingredients of Love
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The day begins like any other Saturday for beautiful Parisian restaurateur Aurélie Bredin, until she wakes up to find her apartment empty – her boyfriend gone off with another woman. Heartbroken, Aurélie walks the streets of Paris in the...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Ladies’ Paradise

The Ladies’ Paradise
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification. The Ladies’Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the...

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