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Charlatan

Charlatan
  • Author(s): Kate Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of the King of France, Louis XIV. Three years later, Athénaïs,...

Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France, Tarn-et-Garonne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission – officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English...

Château Rouge

Château Rouge
  • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious. A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that...

Chergui’s Child

Chergui’s Child
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Morocco, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olivia is recovering from a traumatic event five years earlier when her beloved aunt Dorothy dies, leaving her a large sum of money and a letter containing a startling revelation. From Morocco to London to the south of France,...

Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel

Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Anais receives a near-derelict Paris hotel in her divorce settlement, her first thought is to tidy it up and sell it immediately. All she wants is to move on and forget her disaster of a marriage ever happened....

Citadel

Citadel
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction

1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne – codenamed ‘Citadel’ – made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when...

City Spies

City Spies
  • Author(s): James Ponti
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called “a must-read,” Edgar Award winner James Ponti brings together five kids from all over the world and transforms them into real-life spies–perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s...

Civilisation Française

Civilisation Française
  • Author(s): Mary Fleming
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980's

When recent college graduate Lily Owens enrolls in the Civilisation Française course at the Sorbonne in 1982, she hopes to put a difficult childhood behind her and to find direction for adulthood. She moves into an historic mansion on...

Clouds over the Montagne Noire

Clouds over the Montagne Noire
  • Author(s): Catherine Parr
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When tragedy strikes Lynne and Alex Stevens decide to make a fresh start in an idyllic wine producing village in the South of France. But even before they move in they unwittingly make enemies. Who hates them enough to...

Coastliners

Coastliners
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities have fought for control of the island’s only beach. When Mado returns home ot her village...

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