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Paris Spring

Paris Spring
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life....

Red Is My Heart

Red Is My Heart
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (Translator), Le Sonneur (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Novella
  • Era(s): Present

How can you mend a broken heart? Do you write a letter to the woman who left you – and post it to an imaginary address? Buy a new watch, to reset your life? Or get rid of the...

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness
  • Author(s): Zoé de Las Cases
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wander through picturesque streets, visit quirky shops and cafes, and enjoy a uniquely French way of life in the course of these pages. As you focus on colouring in and forget the stresses of everyday life, you’ll find calm...

Strapless

Strapless
  • Author(s): Deborah Davis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

The story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting “Madame X” that propelled the artist to international renown but condemned his subject to a life of public ridicule.

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

The Cover Wife

The Cover Wife
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...

The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado
  • Author(s): Elaine Dundy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, ‘one of the best novels about growing up fast’. Sally Jay Gorce...

The Girl with No Shadow

The Girl with No Shadow
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

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