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Personal (Jack Reacher 19)

Personal (Jack Reacher 19)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president....

Petite Anglaise

Petite Anglaise
  • Author(s): Catherine Sanderson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

She has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in...

Picasso’s Lovers

Picasso’s Lovers
  • Author(s): Jeanne Mackin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Biography

‘A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him… Picasso’s Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author A vivid reimagination of the women drawn...

Piglettes

Piglettes
  • Author(s): Clementine Beauvais
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have just been voted the three ugliest girls in school by their classmates on Facebook. But does that mean they’re going to sit around crying about it?… Well, maybe a little, but not for long!...

PILGRIM: FINDING A NEW WAY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

PILGRIM: FINDING A NEW WAY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
  • Author(s): Carolyn Gillespie
  • Location(s): France, Northern Spain, Portugal
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

When faced with an empty nest, Kari decides to spread her own wings. Giving up a job she loves, she sets off to walk across a whole country. A big one. A contemporary take on an ancient experience, Pilgrim...

Pilgrims

Pilgrims
  • Author(s): Matthew Kneale
  • Location(s): France, England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1289

1289. A rich farmer fears he’ll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew into her hat and show off at church. A poor, ragged villager is convinced his beloved cat is suffering...

Plaint for Provence

Plaint for Provence
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 12th century

Shortlisted for the Chaucer Awards, FINALIST in The Wishing Shelf Awards, HNS EDitor’s Choice 1152: Les-Baux-de-Provence ‘By far the best historical fiction I have read this year! – Rabia Tanveer, December 2015, for Readers’ Favorite Summoned to the court...

Poison

Poison
  • Author(s): Kathryn Harrison
  • Location(s): Versailles, Madrid, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century

Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the...

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): Massif Central, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and present

1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in...

Ports of Call

Ports of Call
  • Author(s): Amin Maalouf
  • Location(s): Montpellier, Beirut, Haifa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Ossyane, a young Lebanese of both aristocratic Ottoman and humble Armenian origins, goes to Montpellier, France, to study away from the burden of his liberal father’s revolutionary ambitions. World War II breaks out and Ossyane is drawn into the...

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