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Last Chance in the Pyrenees

Last Chance in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

No 5 in the Fogas series When tragedy strikes the small mountain village of Fogas in the French Pyrenees, the residents must once more rally round to protect their precious way of life – and this time the stakes...

Love Among the Recipes

Love Among the Recipes
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017

Paris may be for lovers, but cookbook author Genna McGraw is definitely not looking for love. She’s looking for escape and she’s looking for a good runny Brie to pair with a smooth Bordeaux. Where better than Paris? In...

Lullaby

Lullaby
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted...

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles
  • Author(s): Rupert Kingfisher
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children

Madame Pamplemousse is the story of Madeleine, forced to work in her unpleasant uncle’s horrible restaurant, The Squealing Pig. By chance she comes across the most marvellous shop, run by Madame Pamplemousse, which is quiet, discreet, yet full of...

Madame Picasso

Madame Picasso
  • Author(s): Anne Girard
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumier at the famous Moulin Rouge and it is here...

Madeleine

Madeleine
  • Author(s): Euan Cameron
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and WW2

“A beautifully written and moving story of love and betrayal that casts light on the ‘Dark Years’ of French history, 1940-44.” ALLAN MASSIE Family history has always been a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk...

Madeline

Madeline
  • Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…’ Something is not right with little Madeline. Her friends are sad when she goes to hospital to have her appendix...

Map of Another Town

Map of Another Town
  • Author(s): M F K Fisher
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Post WW2

M.F.K. Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her young daughters after the Second World War. In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancient and famous town, known for its tree-lined avenues, pretty fountains and ornate façades....

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

Mission to Paris

Mission to Paris
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn...

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