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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...

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The Margot Affair

The Margot Affair
  • Author(s): Sanaë Lemoine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and goings of their unconventional family, in a small Parisian apartment, cast her whole life under a veil of secrecy and...

The Matilda Effect

The Matilda Effect
  • Author(s): Ellie Irving
  • Location(s): England, Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated –...

The Metropolis Case

The Metropolis Case
  • Author(s): Matthew Gallaway
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1860s

From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart’s yearning for connection. Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels...

The Mirror of Simple Souls

The Mirror of Simple Souls
  • Author(s): Aline Kiner, Susan Emanuel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1300s

A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love… It’s 1310 and Paris is alive with talk of the trial of the Templars. Religious repression is on the rise, and the smoke of execution pyres blackens the sky above...

The Mona Lisa Mystery

The Mona Lisa Mystery
  • Author(s): Pat Hutchins, Laurence Hutchins (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Class 3 of Hampstead Primary School are off on a school trip to Paris! Morgan is the first to spot the bearded man in the black Citroen car, cruising behind their school bus, and feels sure he is following...

The Mona LIsa Speaks

The Mona LIsa Speaks
  • Author(s): Christopher Angel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Brilliant & confident Robertson Ross, an outdoorsy Canadian computer expert hired to update the Louvre’s security system, falls in love with Mathilde, a classic beauty & cultured Parisian art dealer. But, when he discovers that she’s deeply in debt...

The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life

The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life
  • Author(s): David Oates
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by...

The Museum of Broken Promises

The Museum of Broken Promises
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1986/current day

Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...

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