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Lies Behind the Ruin

Lies Behind the Ruin
  • Author(s): Helen Matthews
  • Location(s): Haute-Vienne, Limoges
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day

How can you build a new life on toxic foundations? Emma Willshire has overcome plenty of obstacles in her life, from student bride to single mum of a son, Owen, but she has found happiness with her second husband,...

Life in a Postcard

Life in a Postcard
  • Author(s): Rosemary Bailey
  • Location(s): Catalonia (France)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

English family escape to the Pyrenees, their attempted restoration of a monastery, life in a small village and attending the village school.

Life: A User’s Manual

Life: A User’s Manual
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his...

Light at Dusk

Light at Dusk
  • Author(s): Peter Gadol
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): post contemporary

The novel is set just a little in the future when the Far Right has gained ascendancy and skinheads rule the street. A Lebanese boy is kidnapped.

Light of the Moon

Light of the Moon
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Evelyn St John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance. Paul von Hoch’s brief, as a member of the German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. Suddenly the battle lines shift between patriotism and...

Lilac Girls

Lilac Girls
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Ravensbrück
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939–and then sets...

Losing the Light

Losing the Light
  • Author(s): Andrea Dunlop
  • Location(s): France, Nantes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smart, obsessive debut novel about a young woman studying abroad who becomes caught up in a seductive French world and a complex web of love and lust. When thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her...

Lost in Paris

Lost in Paris
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Thompson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to uncover the secret life of a family matriarch–perfect for fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and...

Lost Roses

Lost Roses
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): Long Island, Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a...

Love and War in the Pyrenees

Love and War in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Rosemary Bailey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1939-1944

Second World War in the Pyrenees. The escape routes, refugees, camps and Resistance, all told through authors’ exploration of the region and interviews with survivors.

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