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The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas, Liesl Schillinger (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...

The Last Collection

The Last Collection
  • Author(s): Jeanne Mackin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli (‘Schiap’) are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. They oppose each other at every turn, in both their politics...

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...

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