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Marguerite

Marguerite
  • Author(s): Marina Kemp
  • Location(s): South West France, Saint Sulpice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the...

Marseille

Marseille
  • Author(s): Angela Wren
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Massif Central
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A spate of abductions and subsequent deaths in nearby départements have Investigator, Jacques Forêt, perplexed. Returning from extended leave to the news of a local kidnapping, Jacques is on the case immediately. And this time it’s personal. But the...

Marseille Noir

Marseille Noir
  • Author(s): Cedric Fabre
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Marseille provides magnificent material for writing. For a long time, when it still had its eye on the sea, it was in fact a veritable ‘open city’ for writers on shore leave. It welcomed the greatest globe-trotting writers in...

Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country

Mary, Queen of Scots:  Queen Without a Country
  • Author(s): Kathryn Lasky
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1553

Mary is only nine months old when she is crowned Queen of Scotland succeeding her father King James V. Because of political conflicts, she is forced to be separated from her mother and her country from the age of...

Master Of War

Master Of War
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): France, England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 14th Century

Amid the carnage of the 100 Years War – the bloodiest confilct in medieval history – a young English archer confronts his destiny… England, 1346: For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy – dance on the end of a...

Max the Detective Cat: The Catnap Caper

Max the Detective Cat: The Catnap Caper
  • Author(s): Sarah Todd Taylor, Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… The pampered cats of Paris are being kidnapped! Could it have something to do with a singing competition that...

Mazzeri: Love and Death in Light and Shadow

Mazzeri: Love and Death in Light and Shadow
  • Author(s): Peter Crawley
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

He had heard the spirits calling his name from the maquis and he had heard their footfalls as they passed by his window in the night. The spirits had summoned him. He could not deny them.’ It is the...

Meet Me in Paris

Meet Me in Paris
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time—but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories...

Meet me in Venice

Meet me in Venice
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Paris, Venice
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Paris, Shanghai and Venice, the new novel of romantic suspense from Elizabeth Adler revolves around the fate of a valuable family heirloom – a gem-encrusted necklace – and the people who wish to profit from it at...

Mend the Living

Mend the Living
  • Author(s): Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (translator)
  • Location(s): Le Havre, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life. In the depths of a winter’s night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting, readying itself for the day to come. In a few hours’ time, just before six, his alarm will...

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