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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...

I Wish I Had a River

I Wish I Had a River
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Portugal, France, Galicia, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Pediatrician Anna Drury has been contentedly married to her husband Nick for three years when he receives a terminal diagnosis. In the two weeks before the fatal illness claims his life, Nick makes three urgent requests that Anna is...

I’ll Take The Fire

I’ll Take The Fire
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Morocco, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives....

I, Mona Lisa

I, Mona Lisa
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): Florence, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 16th Century to present

In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...

If You Are There

If You Are There
  • Author(s): Susan Sherman
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling...

Igloo

Igloo
  • Author(s): Jennifer Burkinshaw
  • Location(s): French Alps, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A surprise Christmas holiday in the French Alps should be a dream come true, but not for sixteen-year-old Nirvana. She has an important project to complete at home, and tensions are high with her parents. In desperation, Niv skips...

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