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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,...

Death at the Chateau Bremont

Death at the Chateau Bremont
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence, Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Étienne de Bremont is found dead having fallen from an attic window at the family château. Suicide? Possibly murder. Then Magistrate Verlaque has to investigate another death – all set against the fabulous backdrop of Provence

Deus ex Machina

Deus ex Machina
  • Author(s): Sparkle Hayter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Two stories come together to make a rollercoaster ride through Paris. A starving writer splurges on a cab ride in Paris, she ends up on an unexpected journey…

Every Day, Every Hour

Every Day, Every Hour
  • Author(s): Natasa Dragnic
  • Location(s): Croatia, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s to 2008

Dora and Luka are inseparable: ever since he fainted at the sight of her – walking into the classroom with her new schoolbag – and she woke him with a chaste kiss, it has been love at first sight....

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