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Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

Flaubert’s Parrot

Flaubert’s Parrot
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam;...

Fleur de Lies

Fleur de Lies
  • Author(s): Maddy Hunter
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): present day

Deja Vu All Over Again! When intrepid travel agency owner Emily Andrew-Miceli takes her band of tech-savvy seniors to France, they say “Bonjour” by cruising down the Seine River. Along for the ride are a colorful cast of cruise-goers,...

Flight Before Dawn

Flight Before Dawn
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): WWII

Before there was D-Day… For over two years, she’s watched him. Now he’s on her doorstep. This is life in the Resistance. In Normandy in 1943, Victoire leads a band of the Resistance. When Leal, the man she’s had...

Footsteps

Footsteps
  • Author(s): Richard Holmes
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1985 looking back

In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and...

For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse
  • Author(s): Lauren North
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect pre-wedding getaway. The perfect murder. The perfect trap… Jake and I planned our romantic trip to the south of France to unwind from all the stress of organising our wedding and enjoy some blissful, sun-soaked days just...

For the Love of a Spy

For the Love of a Spy
  • Author(s): M S Spencer
  • Location(s): France, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1991

Maris Graystone writes the Scrivener, a political column, and Michael Kinder is a handyman with a secret. They meet on a hot day in 1991, an era electric with possibility and peril. Despite the instantaneous sparks, they both sense...

Forbidden Circles

Forbidden Circles
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1920s

It’s 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring...

Forever Paris

Forever Paris
  • Author(s): Jacques Lebor, David W Cox
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Monuments, museums, neighborhoods, streets, squares, parks and gardens – all you could ever wish to know about Paris

French Collection: Twelve Short Stories

French Collection: Twelve Short Stories
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 16th century to present day

France is a land steeped in history, whose landscapes and light have enthused writers and artists for centuries. Beneath the dust of ages lie buried countless personal histories, which have inspired this collection of twelve fictional short stories. Can...

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