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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...

Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

Mistress of the Ritz

Mistress of the Ritz
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris from...

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Axelle Anderson: fashion’s most stylish detective. Despite her long legs and fashion-obsessed family, all Axelle wants to do is solve mysteries. So when star designer Belle La Lune vanishes, Axelle seizes the chance to go undercover as a...

Monsters

Monsters
  • Author(s): Sharon Dogar
  • Location(s): London, France, Scotland, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1814: Two 16-year-old stepsisters run away with a married man. The results are devastating and the ripples will be felt for centuries. This is the incredible story of Mary Shelley – radical, rebellious and...

Monstrous Design

Monstrous Design
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Following the thrills and spills of Dangerous Remedy, the Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalour of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: Camille and Al are desperately hunting Olympe’s...

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