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Not My Job – A Len Palmer Mystery (Book 2)

Not My Job – A Len Palmer Mystery (Book 2)
  • Author(s): Roger M Kaye
  • Location(s): Japan, French Alps
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Please read the Len Palmer books in order. This is no.2, start with Snow Job Len Palmer, a ski-lift designer, is looking for work. After the disastrous end of the HiFly megalift (Snow Job – the first Len Palmer...

Old Goriot

Old Goriot
  • Author(s): Honore Balzac
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post French Revolution

A witty and reflective study of the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution, and the two great human obsessions – love and money – Honoré de Balzac’s Old Goriot is part of the immortal La Comédie humaine, translated from the...

Olivia

Olivia
  • Author(s): Dorothy Strachey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The classic novel about a teenage girl’s infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia–based loosely on the author’s own life–was first published...

On the Line

On the Line
  • Author(s): Joseph Ponthus
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Poetry, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he records with infinite precision the...

One French Summer

One French Summer
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was just supposed to be a holiday, but could it become the second chance she didn’t know she needed…? Life isn’t quite going as planned for Katy. With her only daughter living in Australia and a husband who...

One in a Million

One in a Million
  • Author(s): Margaret Gayle
  • Location(s): Paris, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

Marcy Telford’s life as a struggling copywriter changed overnight when she won a fourteen-million-dollar lottery. Nearly every kook in Canada besieged her. Twenty-four-hours later she found herself in Paris with Josh McQuade, her big-hearted bodyguard. Marcy wanted to forget...

One More Croissant for the Road

One More Croissant for the Road
  • Author(s): Felicity Cloake
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. A green bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper...

One Morning in Provence

One Morning in Provence
  • Author(s): Lorna Fergusson
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To travel is to meet yourself… Ten compelling short stories set in France. The sensory richness of France unlocks unexpected truths for those who travel there. A stressed-out publicist learns what getting away really means. A divorce’s new happiness...

One Night in Paris

One Night in Paris
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Brittany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Claire Cousteau is one of France’s most respected biologists, with a seemingly perfect family life. But beneath the surface, frustration grows in her marriage and in the silence around her husband’s affairs. As Claire and her family prepare for...

One of those Malibu Nights

One of those Malibu Nights
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, Rome
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

P.I. Mac Reilly and assistant Sunny are involved in Hollywood mogul intrigues. A woman holds a gun, and shoots, then goes missing. Allie Ray, star of the big screen also goes missing. The trail takes the investigators from Malibu...

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