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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...

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...

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