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Heatwave

Heatwave
  • Author(s): Victor Jestin
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leonard is an outsider, a seventeen-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers,...

Her Darkest Hour

Her Darkest Hour
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Colmar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

‘You and me – we’re sisters, not enemies. We’ve got a real enemy at our door and we need to focus on that – together, united. I don’t want to be fighting you as well.’ In the small French...

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider–brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that...

Her Nanny’s Secret

Her Nanny’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jan Baynham
  • Location(s): Wales, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941, 1963

It’s 1941; Annie Beynon defies convention by working as a stable girl for the wealthy Pryce family whose son leaves to join the RAF. She has a secret that when it’s threatened to become exposed, she makes a shocking...

Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series)

Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series)
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Paris, The Cotswolds, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Suspense
  • Era(s): 19th - 21st century

On Madison Greene’s sixteenth birthday, she inherits a mansion with sinister secrets. Sucked into a nightmare that spans the centuries, she must fight to save the ones she loves. Alexandre is an eighteen-year-old French aristocrat with arrogance and charm....

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
  • Author(s): Robin Scott-Elliot
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1942

Paris, 1942. When Amelie Dreyfus hides in her mother’s wardrobe it’s a game; when she comes out it’s a matter of life or death. With her family taken, Amelie has to fend for herself in Nazi-occupied France – she’s...

His Very Own Girl

His Very Own Girl
  • Author(s): Carrie Lofty
  • Location(s): Leicestershire, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): World War II

After the War took the lives of Lulu Davies’s parents and her fiancé, she promised herself she would guard her heart carefully and concentrate on her great love—flying the biggest and best airplanes in the sky. Lulu is a...

Holding On Letting Go

Holding On Letting Go
  • Author(s): Catherine Finch
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Lancashire and South West France, Holding On Letting Go follows four friends, all facing choices that will tilt the direction of their lives. For Chris, his wife’s words, ‘I’m leaving you,’ devastated his comfortable past, snatched away...

Honour Thyself

Honour Thyself
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel – and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set...

Hopscotch

Hopscotch
  • Author(s): Julio Cortázar
  • Location(s): Paris, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the...

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