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After the Circus

After the Circus
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and...

Ahead of the Shadows

Ahead of the Shadows
  • Author(s): A B Kyazze
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of), Paris, Sudan
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2003, 2022

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure, and it’s not certain if their...

Akin

Akin
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy,...

All I Have to Give

All I Have to Give
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): The Somme, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1916

When all is lost, can she find the strength to start again? It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. Compelled to use her skills for the war effort, she travels to...

All That Life Can Afford

All That Life Can Afford
  • Author(s): Emily Everett
  • Location(s): London, St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love...

All The Broken Places

All The Broken Places
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): France, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to WW2

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable,...

All The Devils Are Here

All The Devils Are Here
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a...

All the Flowers in Paris

All the Flowers in Paris
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s and 2000s

One mother’s desperate hope for survival. 1943: In occupied Paris, Celine creates bespoke bouquets at her father’s flower shop on rue Cler, whilst trying to shield her young daughter from the brutal reality of war. But when an SS...

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

All the Ways We Said Goodbye
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers...

Almodis the Peaceweaver

Almodis the Peaceweaver
  • Author(s): Tracey Warr
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th century

A story of love, adventure and scandal based on the real life of the eleventh-century Countess Almodis de la Marche. At a time when a noblewoman’s purpose is to produce heirs, Almodis resolves to create her own dynasty. Almodis’...

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