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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...

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...

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