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The Invisible Bridge

The Invisible Bridge
  • Author(s): Julie Orringer
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hungary, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young...

The Last Restaurant in Paris

The Last Restaurant in Paris
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German...

The Lollipop Shoes

The Lollipop Shoes
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Following closely on the heals of Chocolat, Zozie de l’Alba enters into Vianne and Anouk’s life (now calling themselves Yanne and Annie), seemingly from nowhere and they become friends. But Zozie is not quite what she seems. With a...

The Lost Lover

The Lost Lover
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Paris, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 1930s

(The Wild Isle Series, 3) An epic, sweeping historical novel of second chances and lovers reunited . . . Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she...

The Martins

The Martins
  • Author(s): David Foenkinos
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbors, the Martins. Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling...

The Painter from Shanghai

The Painter from Shanghai
  • Author(s): Jennifer Epstein
  • Location(s): Paris, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...

The Paris Novel

The Paris Novel
  • Author(s): Ruth Reichl
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She’s perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a...

The Rabbi’s Cat

The Rabbi’s Cat
  • Author(s): Joann Sfar
  • Location(s): Algeria, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the...

The Secret Paris Cinema Club

The Secret Paris Cinema Club
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Alain Bonnard, the owner of a small art cinema in Paris, is a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgic. In his Cinéma Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no XXL colas, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to his principles of quality...

The Seven Sisters

The Seven Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...

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