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The Geranium Woman

The Geranium Woman
  • Author(s): Hazel Manuel
  • Location(s): India, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

While grieving the death of her father, the Parisian CEO of a corporate events company faces stark choices. Questioning what it means to ‘succeed’, she must decide whether to keep trying to build an ethically sound company, in keeping...

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
  • Author(s): Christine Féret-Fleury
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere . . . When Juliette takes the...

The Godmother

The Godmother
  • Author(s): Hannelore Cayre, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...

The Great Believers

The Great Believers
  • Author(s): Rebecca Makkai
  • Location(s): Paris, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1980s

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins...

The Guardian of Lies

The Guardian of Lies
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, André, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to...

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Liège, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...

The Honeybee Emeralds

The Honeybee Emeralds
  • Author(s): Amy Tector
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and...

The House on the Edge of the Cliff

The House on the Edge of the Cliff
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . . Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men. She fell under...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...

The Inverts

The Inverts
  • Author(s): Crystal Jeans
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Egypt, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart...

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