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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...

Imogen

Imogen
  • Author(s): Jilly Cooper
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelation – and...

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
  • Author(s): Simon Kuper
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer’s tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He...

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

In Mozart’s Shadow:  His Sister’s Story
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

Intrigue in Paris

Intrigue in Paris
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2007

Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...

Isabelle

Isabelle
  • Author(s): André Gide
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

The story begins in the ruins of an old chateau in Normandy. The narrator of the story, Gérard Lacase, is showing some friends around the property where he was a guest many years earlier as a young university student...

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