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The Value of Nothing

The Value of Nothing
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Youssef Tigha lives in a makeshift camp in the centre of Paris. He’s twelve years old. An Arab. Michael Finistere is a financier with several homes. Chance, or fate, brings the migrant and the multi-millionaire together. For one of...

The War Begins in Paris

The War Begins in Paris
  • Author(s): Theodore Wheeler
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon...

The Year That Changed Us

The Year That Changed Us
  • Author(s): Helen Rolfe
  • Location(s): Bath, Paris
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...

There’s Only One Paris: Tale for our Times

There’s Only One Paris: Tale for our Times
  • Author(s): April Lily Heise
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“There’s only one Paris, and however hard living here may be, and if it became worse and even harder, a world of good.” — Vincent van Gogh. In the midst of a global pandemic, the artist’s...

This Christmas in Paris

This Christmas in Paris
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris? When Carys is offered the chance to run a little French café, she leaps at the chance to discover an exciting city where she can dream big. Meanwhile, struggling journalist...

Three Hours in Paris

Three Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed...

Transformed: Paris

Transformed: Paris
  • Author(s): Jack Harvey, Suzanne Falter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

Transman spy Charley MacElroy travels to Paris to help French authorities break up a Neo Nazi plot to scatter dirty bombs throughout the city. His older lover Electra comes along to study French, but she soon discovers Dickie Borque,...

Trapeze

Trapeze
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Please check detail of The Girl who fell from the sky as these are both the same book

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...

True Pleasures

True Pleasures
  • Author(s): Lucinda Holdforth
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Meet the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion – Paris, the world’s...

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