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Treachery (9)

Treachery (9)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): France, Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1803

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent...

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer
  • Author(s): Henry Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating...

Véronique’s Journey

Véronique’s Journey
  • Author(s): Patti Flinn
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 18th Century

In 18th century France, the choices for a young black woman of modest means are slim. Véronique Clair loves her parents and their small home in the countryside of Burgundy but dreams of using her talent for sewing and...

Victory (11)

Victory (11)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, France, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1805

`Stockwin continues to display his talents in transporting his audience from the 21st century to the chaotic worlds of Kydd, Renzi, and their imperiled homeland.’ – Historical Novels Review

We Are Together Because

We Are Together Because
  • Author(s): Kerry Andrew
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia
  • Author(s): Michele Hanson
  • Location(s): Middlesex, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...

Who Needs Mr Darcy?

Who Needs Mr Darcy?
  • Author(s): Jean Burnett
  • Location(s): England, Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Earlier 19th Century

Mr Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in many ways, the most notable being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. And so Lydia Wickham, nee Bennet, still not twenty and ever-full of an enterprising spirit,...

Zenith Hotel

Zenith Hotel
  • Author(s): Oscar Coop-Phane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella

I’m a street prostitute. Not a call girl or anything. No, a real street whore, with stiletto heels and menthol cigarettes. Narrator Nanou gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul...

It Happened in Paris

It Happened in Paris
  • Author(s): Molly Hopkins
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

the first in the “It Happened in…” series. Evie Dexter is in pursuit of a career as a European tour guide. Heart set on success and buoyed on by booze, she begins ‘enhancing’ her CV and soon lands a...

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human

A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and his Imperfect Human
  • Author(s): Peter Gethers
  • Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

A short book that tells the story of Norton, a Scottish Fold kitten that the writer’s girlfriend Cindy bought for him – but he isn’t a cat lover (at the outset). He becomes his adorable companion on his trips...

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