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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...

Grey Souls

Grey Souls
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back to WW1

A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near...

Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Berlin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1990s

Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...

Narrow Dog to Carcassone

Narrow Dog to Carcassone
  • Author(s): Terry Darlington
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Darlington and his wife, plus their nervous dog embark on at trip on the narrow boat from the English Waterways across the Channel to the waterways of France. An eye for detail, risking life and limb, this is the...

The First Thing You See

The First Thing You See
  • Author(s): Gregoire Delacourt
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in...

The Hare with Amber Eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes
  • Author(s): Edmund de Waal
  • Location(s): Paris, Tokyo, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1870s onwards

de Waal is one of Britain’s most well known potters and this is the story of a collection of netsuke, inherited from his Uncle. This is their story, which starts in Paris in the 1870s,where they were purchased by...

An Unexpected Guest

An Unexpected Guest
  • Author(s): Anne Korkeakivi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, past

Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day...

d’Ispere

d’Ispere
  • Author(s): Benedict Beaumont
  • Location(s): Val d'Isere
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Val d’Isere is a beautiful, beguiling and deadly place. Snow storms, avalanches and accidents are the least of the dangers that the skiers and boarders who live there have to face. James, a new ski guide in the resort,...

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