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Nick

Nick
  • Author(s): Michael Farris Smith
  • Location(s): France, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby s...

Night Flight to Paris

Night Flight to Paris
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win–or lose–World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris. Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win...

Nightwood

Nightwood
  • Author(s): Djuna Barnes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s – an...

No Bed of Roses

No Bed of Roses
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Aubrac, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Would you reveal your past and risk your second chance at love? Helen Tanner runs her own business, spends her evenings out with friends, anything to avoid memories of the tragedy she left behind. She lives alone and likes...

Noor-un-Nissa Inyat Khan

Noor-un-Nissa Inyat Khan
  • Author(s): Sufiya Ahmed
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan. It’s 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to stand by while Nazi forces...

Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
  • Author(s): Jean-Paul Dubois
  • Location(s): France, Canada, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

***WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT*** Paul Hansen is in prison. He’s been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a huge Hells Angel with a fear of mice and an intense love of Harley...

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...

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