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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...

The Lost Girls Of Paris

The Lost Girls Of Paris
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

1940s With the world at war, Eleanor Trigg leads a mysterious ring of female secret agents in London. Twelve of these women are sent to aid the resistance. They never return home. 1946 Passing through Grand Central Station, New...

The Lost Perfumes of Paris

The Lost Perfumes of Paris
  • Author(s): Christine Wells
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of mid-century Parisian glamour and the timeless art of perfumery, a captivating tale of resilience, love, and the intoxicating pursuit of passion. Élodie Limeaux’s beloved mother, Aurore, was the most legendary perfumer in France before...

The Mad Women’s Ball

The Mad Women’s Ball
  • Author(s): Victoria Mas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1885

‘Enter the danse of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists’ The Parisian; ‘Essential reading’ Cosmopolitan ‘A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
  • Author(s): Lucette Lagnado
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...

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