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One Place de l’Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century

One Place de l’Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century
  • Author(s): Trevor Dolby
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Escape to Languedoc in this poignant and transportative true account of life in a beautifully restored house in the south of France ‘This love affair between an English family and a very old French house is by turns turbulent,...

One Summer In Paris

One Summer In Paris
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One charming bookshop, two unlikely friends, and a summer in Paris that will change their lives forever… Grace can’t believe it when her husband of twenty-five years announces he doesn’t want to join her on their anniversary trip to...

One True Sentence

One True Sentence
  • Author(s): Craig McDonald
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

February, 1924: an incredible exchange rate, lack of prohibition and post-war ennui have flooded the City of Light with thousands of Americans — the psychologically damaged members of the so-called Lost Generation. The cafés, bistros and garrets of Paris...

Overture

Overture
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): South West France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1897-1914

She has a burning ambition, but everything conspires against her dreams. France, 1897. Born to a modest farming family, Marie-Thérèse has a remarkable singing voice and wants to become a professional singer. But too many obstacles, including her parents’...

Painting Paris

Painting Paris
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908 and 1937

Paris 1908. In Montmartre painters are creating works that will change the way we see life. Some do it better than others, some fall victims to the pursuit of love as well as art. But it’s a time to...

Paris Blue

Paris Blue
  • Author(s): Julie Scolnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc,...

Paris by the Book

Paris by the Book
  • Author(s): Liam Callanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it’s easy to lose someone… Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her husband disappeared. Early one morning, he walked out the door and never...

Paris Can’t Save Us

Paris Can’t Save Us
  • Author(s): Bella Thrower
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Paris Can’t Save Us, Claire and Luke, a couple seeking a fresh start and a chance to further Claire’s career, move to the City of Light for a year. Amidst the enchanting backdrop of the Parisian cafes and...

Paris France

Paris France
  • Author(s): Gertrude Stein
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 20th Century

In Paris France (1940)–published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik–Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a...

Paris in Disguise

Paris in Disguise
  • Author(s): Richard Wake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Paris is cold and hungry. The Germans are in the fourth year of their occupation, and while a Resistance movement flourishes, it is small and perilous beyond belief. The lives of Resistance radio operators can be measured in weeks,...

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