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Possession

Possession
  • Author(s): A S Byatt
  • Location(s): Brittany, England
  • Genre(s): Romance

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail...

Proud of You

Proud of You
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

A heartfelt historical saga from Mary Wood, Proud of You is a page-turning novel with a compelling mystery at its heart. Alice, an upper-class Londoner, is recruited into the Special Operations Executive and sent to Paris where she meets...

Rabble!

Rabble!
  • Author(s): Geoffrey Fox
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870's Paris Commune

1870.17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Étienne Bonin travels from revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking excitement and professional opportunity. By the spring of 1871 he is deeply committed to the insurrection for workers’ power, to a new lover —...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

Régine

Régine
  • Author(s): Paul Louis Rossi
  • Location(s): Nantes
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930-1950

Published in 1990 in French original, this book is one of a pair by Rossi about his time in Nantes in Western France. For literary tourists Rossi names places that can be found. The very first paragraph speaks of...

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for – and having...

RESONANCE

RESONANCE
  • Author(s): Daniel Chertoff, Michael Tobin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1922 and 1970s

1971, Paris Sophie Hadad works as a “tumbleweed” at Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, having fled a dysfunctional family and predatory professors in the U.S. When store owner George Whitman tasks Sophie with excavating the store’s basement, she...

Revolution

Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern, French Revolution (18th century)

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying...

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Italy, France, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

Their rivalry will change the world forever. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion...

Road Trip to the Riviera

Road Trip to the Riviera
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An utterly escapist story about a journey to remember through the French countryside, from the bestselling author of The Bordeaux Book Club. When Sarah breaks her leg, her only thought is how on earth she’ll get to the south...

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