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The Song That Seduced Paris

The Song That Seduced Paris
  • Author(s): Cindy Irish
  • Location(s): Paris, Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Opera gets sexy! American music mogul Teddy Wilson combines the beauty of opera with the marketability of pop and creates the pop-opera multinational singing group called “Bel Homme.” French for “Beautiful Man,” the four performers he chooses are much...

The Stranger in the Seine

The Stranger in the Seine
  • Author(s): Guillaume Musso, Rosie Eyre (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PARIS, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman is saved from the waters of the Seine. Unable to remember her name or how she ended up in the river, she is taken to the hospital...

The Strays of Paris

The Strays of Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Smiley
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of a group of extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is...

The Tarot Reader of Versailles

The Tarot Reader of Versailles
  • Author(s): Anya Bergman
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1790s

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets...

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre

The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre
  • Author(s): Clare Povey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1922

The open door felt like an invitation, or a trap. Bastien wasn’t sure which, but with no other choice, he stepped inside…and hoped he’d make it out again alive. Bastien Bonlivre is a boy with a big imagination, determined...

The Unexpected Tale of the Bad Brothers

The Unexpected Tale of the Bad Brothers
  • Author(s): Clare Povey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Bastien Bonlivre is in trouble again. His sworn enemy, Olivier Odieux, has escaped jail and is after Bastien once more. Meanwhile, trouble is also brewing in Paris. Fires are burning, and danger lurks at every corner. Who could be...

The Unwanted Dead

The Unwanted Dead
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Political
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever....

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...

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