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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Exile and the Mapmaker by Emma Musty
    The Exile and the Mapmaker - by Emma Musty

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800319431 | ISBN 10: 1800319436

    Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once loved before Alzheimer’s takes his memories of her.   Elise, his estranged daughter, moves in to take care of him. She still blames him for the tragic los ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
    All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD   All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
    Pedigree - by Patrick Modiano

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857054913 | ISBN 10: 0857054910

    "It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"   Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prince
    The Prince's Boy - by Paul Bailey

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408851951 | ISBN 10: 1408851954

    In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the uniq ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
    Under Fire - by Henri Barbusse

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432

    'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down'   Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia
    The Incorrigible Optimists Club - by Jean-Michel Guenassia

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848875418 | ISBN 10: 184887541x

    Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
    Astragal - by Albertine Sarrazin

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846689413 | ISBN 10: 1846689414

    'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.'   At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine  (Editor and translator)
    Paris Metro Tales - by Helen Constantine (Editor and translator)

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199579808 | ISBN 10: 0199579806

    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro.   The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
    Olivia - by Dorothy Strachey

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511885 | ISBN 10: 0099511886

    When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straigh ... more

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