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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...

House of Glass

House of Glass
  • Author(s): Hadley Freeman
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved,...

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
  • Author(s): Anne Berest
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Self-help
  • Era(s): 2014

How To Be Parisian brilliantly deconstructs the French woman’s views on culture, fashion and attitude. Bohemian free-thinkers and iconoclasts, Anne Berest, Caroline De Maigret, Audrey Diwan and Sophie Mas cut through the myths in this gorgeous, witty guide to...

I do…or do I?

I do…or do I?
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): France, England
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Local journalist Cassie is getting married to hot-shot, reliable Timothy. But it isn’t quite a match made in heaven. His pushy mother, Sylvia, AKA Monster-in-Law, is intent on taking over their wedding. When the exclusive ID Images is booked...

I Promise You This

I Promise You This
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suddenly single after twenty-two years of marriage, the calm of Katherine Price’s midlife has turned upside down. Seeking to find her true self, she took a chance on starting over. A year later, she is certain of this: she’s...

I Remember Paris

I Remember Paris
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s nowhere quite like Paris, as journalist and single mum Jess Bright knows all too well. She’s never forgotten the love, friendship and freedom she enjoyed there in her twenties. So when she’s offered a writing job in the...

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