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Black Dogs

Black Dogs
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1946 and 1986

Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Timesbestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an...

Black Notice

Black Notice
  • Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris, Lyon, Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean’s breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia’s Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked,...

Black Sparrow

Black Sparrow
  • Author(s): A J Griffiths-Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Two people, from two very different cultures and with two identical suitcases, are bound for Paris – with completely different intentions. One is a young Muslim woman taking the first steps of independence that will crush her traditional beliefs;...

Black Venus

Black Venus
  • Author(s): James MacManus
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably – thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing – and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one...

Blackbird Fly

Blackbird Fly
  • Author(s): Lise McClendon
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): present day and WW2

When her husband dies suddenly, Merle Bennett and her teenage son decamp to the Dordogne to check out the stone cottage he left them… one they didn’t even know he owned. But a squatter has been living there for...

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
  • Author(s): Eugene Barter
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink

At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge. This is the story of her experiences. Humorous and often self-mocking, always gentle and...

Bonita Faye

Bonita Faye
  • Author(s): Margaret Moseley
  • Location(s): Oklahoma, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

When small town girl Bonita Faye’s abusive husband, car salesman and fishing guide Billy Roy, is killed, she begins an adventurous new life that takes her from Poteau, Oklahoma to Paris and back again in a story of murder...

Bonjour tristesse

Bonjour tristesse
  • Author(s): Françoise Sagan
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences.

Bonjour, Sophie

Bonjour, Sophie
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert...

Book of Forbidden Words

Book of Forbidden Words
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1550s / 1950s

1552, Paris: Against a backdrop of turmoil, suspicion, and paranoia, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened...

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