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Reader For Hire

Reader For Hire
  • Author(s): Raymond Jean
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

A beautiful homage to the art of reading – light and funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality and language. Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses an attractive voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in...

The Ambassador’s Daughter

The Ambassador’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

Paris, 1919. The world s leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbours dark secrets anddangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the...

The Half-Life of Hannah

The Half-Life of Hannah
  • Author(s): A S A Harrison, Alan Reynolds, Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do?’ Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. Her marriage is reassuringly stable,...

The Paris Option

The Paris Option
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Algeria, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller

A horrific explosion destroys the Paris lab of computer genius Emile Chambord on the eve of his breakthrough in the development of a revolutionary molecular DNA computer that has the ability to control virtually all the world’s computerized operations....

The Portrain

The Portrain
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set on the bleak and windy island of Houat near the coast of Brittany, The Portrait describes the retreat into isolation of the painter Henry MacAlpine, who has performed a Gauguin-like cutting off of his previous life, leaving a...

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • Location(s): Paris, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

1960s. Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster’s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the...

Almost French

Almost French
  • Author(s): Sarah Turnbull
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready...

A Betrayal of Heroes

A Betrayal of Heroes
  • Author(s): David Ebsworth
  • Location(s): Africa, France, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second World War

‘Swear,’ Leclerc shouted, ‘that you will never lay down your arms until our colours, our beautiful colours, are flying afresh on Strasbourg Cathedral!’ Headstrong newspaperman Jack Telford’s weapon is his pen, but the oath he’s taken at Kufra will...

A Breath of French Air

A Breath of French Air
  • Author(s): H E Bates
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Larkins (of The Darling Buds of May – this is the sequel) decide to take a family holiday in Brittany. It is fair to say there is more than a bit of a culture clash, and as usual...

A Case Of Noir

A Case Of Noir
  • Author(s): Paul D Brazill
  • Location(s): England, France, Poland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): 21st century

In snow smothered Warsaw, Luke Case, a boozy English hack with a dark secret, starts a dangerous affair with a gangster’s wife. Case escapes to the sweltering Spanish heat where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a...

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