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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...

The Silver Thread

The Silver Thread
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s / 1980s

THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS… London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to...

The Silvered Serpents

The Silvered Serpents
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris, Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost – one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a...

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Rachel Khoo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins in a tiny bedsit near the Bastille. Newly arrived from London, Rachel Khoo is trying to make a life for herself in Paris, carrying a British, Chinese-Malaysian and Austrian background, while juggling odd jobs, culinary school and...

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