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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
  • Author(s): Samira Ahmed
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Present and 19th century

It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life – but even in the City of Lights she can’t stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago....

Madame Matisse

Madame Matisse
  • Author(s): Sophie Haydock
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the story of three women – one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly...

Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer

Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer
  • Author(s): Lisa Robinson, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1791, French Revolution

A stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform...

Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice

Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Kathleen Benner Duble
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Celie Rosseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris to survive. It is 1789: rumours of rebellion against the monarchy are starting to spread in the...

Maggie Does Meribel

Maggie Does Meribel
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Meribel (Méribel)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The third instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Maggie can’t wait for her first ever skiing holiday. New Year’s Eve in the French Alps with her boyfriend Leo and...

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...

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