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The Last Dress from Paris

The Last Dress from Paris
  • Author(s): Jade Beer
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017 / 1952

Each Dior dress tells a story… London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life....

The Last Train from Paris

The Last Train from Paris
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...

The Lavender Garden

The Lavender Garden
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This is the same book as The Light Behind the Windows, Please see details under that listing.

The Light of Paris

The Light of Paris
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Chicago, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back to 1920s

‘Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife Chicago, 1999. Madeleine is trapped – by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband – in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted....

The Little Bookshop On The Seine

The Little Bookshop On The Seine
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bookshop owner Sarah Smith has been offered the opportunity to exchange bookshops with her new Parisian friend for 6 months! And saying yes is a no-brainer – after all, what kind of a romantic would turn down a trip...

The Little French Bistro

The Little French Bistro
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her...

The Little French Bookshop

The Little French Bookshop
  • Author(s): Cecile Pivot
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A letter writing workshop. Five strangers. Countless secrets bursting in between the pages. When French bookseller Esther loses her father, she decides to place an ad in a newspaper, inviting struggling readers to join her secret letter writing workshop....

The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées

The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It’s an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for Del and...

The London Seance Society

The London Seance Society
  • Author(s): Sarah Penner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1873

May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium… 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire....

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop
  • Author(s): Evie Woods
  • Location(s): Dublin, Lancashire, Paris, West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...

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