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The Black Swan of Paris

The Black Swan of Paris
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian...

The Book of Proper Names

The Book of Proper Names
  • Author(s): Amélie Nothomb, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From France’s ‘literary lioness’ (Elle), The Book of Proper Names is the story of the hapless orphan girl, Plectrude. Raised by her aunt, and unaware of the dark secret behind her past, she is a troubled but dreamy child...

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
  • Author(s): Mark Pryor
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent...

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Paris, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...

The Caretakers

The Caretakers
  • Author(s): Amanda Bestor-Siegal
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2015)

In the smart Parisian suburb of Maisons-Larue, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and suspicious death of her nine-year-old charge… The truth behind what happened is unravelled through...

The Chanel Sisters

The Chanel Sisters
  • Author(s): Judithe Little
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. For readers who fell in love with THE PARIS WIFE and THE AGE OF LIGHT. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage,...

The Chestnut Roaster

The Chestnut Roaster
  • Author(s): Eve McDonnell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1887

From the acclaimed author of Elsetime, shortlisted for the Awesome Book Award, a magical and thrilling adventure. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day...

The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

The Clockwork Girl

The Clockwork Girl
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a dark past,...

The Club Dumas

The Club Dumas
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Paris, Madrid, Toledo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three...

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