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The Purple Shadow

The Purple Shadow
  • Author(s): Christopher Bowden
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day and 1930s

In the years before the war, Sylvie Charlot was a leading light in Paris fashion with many friends among musicians, artists and writers. Now she is largely forgotten. Spending time in Paris during a break in his acting career,...

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...

The Renoir Girls

The Renoir Girls
  • Author(s): Catherine Ostler
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
  • Author(s): Timothy Taylor
  • Location(s): Paris, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything. Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular...

The Riviera House

The Riviera House
  • Author(s): Natasha Lester
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939 / present

When Remy discovers she’s mysteriously inherited a house on the French Riviera, she drops everything to go there, desperately seeking answers and an escape from her broken heart. There, she’s shocked to find a catalogue of the artwork known...

The Room on Rue Amélie

The Room on Rue Amélie
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the...

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers
  • Author(s): Marta Molnar, Dana Marton (Translator)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s

When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...

The Secret Ways of Perfume

The Secret Ways of Perfume
  • Author(s): Cristina Caboni
  • Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...

The Secrets of Provence

The Secrets of Provence
  • Author(s): Daisy Wood
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 / Contemporary

Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance movement. Secrecy and subterfuge are her constant companions in her life on...

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
  • Author(s): Leila Marouane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The protagonist is a handsome, wealthy Parisian bank manager. Born in the Maghreb, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety and fervant Islamism. But he’s through with all that. The time has...

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