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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 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...

The Wine of Solitude

The Wine of Solitude
  • Author(s): Irene Nemirovsky
  • Location(s): Finland, Kyiv, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

First published in 1936 this book is thought to be quite autobiographical. It is the story of young girl’s difficult relationship with her beautiful, but vain and shallow mother. The novel is set during the period of the First...

Thirty Days in Paris

Thirty Days in Paris
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, looking back

Because Paris is always a good idea… Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris – and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it’s time to get it back!...

Uncoupling

Uncoupling
  • Author(s): Lorraine Brown
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track – that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her...

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