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Merchants of Virtue

Merchants of Virtue
  • Author(s): Paul C R Monk
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century

France, 1685. A wealthy merchant’s family fears for their lives following Louis XIV’s repeal of Protestant rights. When Jeanne Delpech returns from her chateau to the Quercy capital, she finds her townhouse overrun by mercenary soldiers. The Sun King’s...

Merde at the Paris Olympics

Merde at the Paris Olympics
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): modern day

Merde at the Paris Olympics is the seventh title in the Merde series of comedy novels (A Year in the Merde, Merde Actually, Dial M for Merde et al) which have been translated into more than 20 languages and...

Merle

Merle
  • Author(s): Angela Wren
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jacques Forêt, a former gendarme turned investigator, delves into the murky world of commercial sabotage – a place where people lie and misrepresent, and where information is traded and used as a threat. The Vaux organisation is losing contracts...

Merlin at War

Merlin at War
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Cairo, France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW II

War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events – a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a...

Merlin the Hound Dog; Part One, In From The Cold

Merlin the Hound Dog; Part One, In From The Cold
  • Author(s): Freya Barrington
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

The heartwarming short story of Merlin, an ill treated and abandoned dog who was rescued in Brittany, France by the SPA Refuge and adopted by an English couple who were living there. Terrified, mistrustful and highly anxious, Merlin had...

Mesmerised

Mesmerised
  • Author(s): Michelle Shine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1863

Dr Paul Gachet, the subject of van Gogh’s famous painting, is a doctor and artist, and – against the unwelcoming backdrop of 1860s Paris – a homeopath. He lives, loves and works alongside the rebellious group of artists who...

Messy, Wonderful Us

Messy, Wonderful Us
  • Author(s): Catherine Isaac
  • Location(s): France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1980s

In late 1983, a letter arrives, containing secrets so unthinkable that it is hidden away, apparently forever. More than three decades later, it is found . . . by the last person who was ever supposed to see it....

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
  • Author(s): Andrew Martin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Andrew Martin has been described as ‘the laureate of railways’, having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history...

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Ten years. Two people. One last visit… Sophie and Tom first visited Paris together as students. During their weekend away in the world’s most romantic city, falling in love – with the place, and each other – was simply...

Minced, Marinated, and Murdered (Gourmet Crimes)

Minced, Marinated, and Murdered (Gourmet Crimes)
  • Author(s): Noel Balen, Vanessa Barrot
  • Location(s): Lyon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Food and Drink, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When food is so much more than a meal… A routine assignment in Lyon, France’s traditional capital of gourmet food, turns bitter for food writer Laure Grenadier when a beloved chef is found murdered. A wave of panic follows...

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