An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940.[...]
Angela is in the city of love - but romance is taking a nose-dive...
From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards includ[...]
Angela is in the City of Love -- but her own love life is heading for trouble! Angela is in the city of love -- but romance is taking a nose-dive! When Angela Clark's boyfriend Alex suggests a trip to Paris at the same time as hip fashion mag Belle asks her to write a piece, she jumps at the chance.[...]
From the bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS comes an enchanting tale of self-discovery that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt they've lost their way.`I adored The Light of Paris. It's so lovely and big-hearted' JOJO MOYES`Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud hum[...]
From the bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS comes an enchanting tale of self-discovery that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt they've lost their way.'I adored The Light of Paris. It's so lovely and big-hearted' JOJO MOYES'Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud hum[...]
'A delicious Christmas delight' - Katie Fforde 'All the best things about Christmas wrapped into one gorgeous, romantic read' - Phillipa Ashley The gorgeous, Christmassy feel-good follow up to the Summer best-seller 'From Italy With Love'.[...]
`Irresistible' Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde In a cosy corner of Paris, a delicious little patisserie is just waiting to be discovered. And romance might just be on the menu... As the youngest of four, Nina Hadley has always had her big brothers telling her what to do. S[...]
HELLO!'s `Pick of the Week' A whirlwind mystery and unravelling love story set in a little bookshop in the heart of Paris. `Heartbreaking, moving and completely riveting.' `Quirky and unusual.' `Atmospheric and with a lot of charm.' `An engaging book pe[...]
The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic young men who found the unity and strength inside themselves when they - and 500 other innocent travellers - needed it most.[...]
An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pisto[...]
When acclaimed cookbook author Patricia Wells moved to Paris in 1980, she had no idea it would be "for good." In the two decades since, she has become one of the world's most beloved food writers, sharing her deep passion for her adopted home and teaching millions of Americans how to cook real Frenc[...]
This book will appeal to fans of French cuisine and people who love Paris. It has been reviewed in travel magazines eg "Travel France" and "Conde Nast Traveller", and in women's and foodie magazines eg "New Woman" and "Olive". You can spend years in Paris and never hear the same answer twice to this[...]
For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter [...]
For more than a quarter century, Patricia Wells, who has long been recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, have lived the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. In this delightful memoir they share in two voices their experiences--th[...]
Chronicles the scandalous sexual adventures of Natalie Clifford Barney, a Victorian-era American heiress living in Paris, from her notorious seductions to her various eccentricities to her famed literary salon. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]
From Here, You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of che[...]
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread--and didn't speak a word of French--unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.Ern[...]
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itselfParis in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent[...]
Scandalized and celebrated by Parisian society, Lou Villars is an extraordinary athlete who is confident that one day she will be an inspiration for her gender. She's also a lesbian and cross-dresser who finds a safe haven in the Chameleon Club, a louche nightspot.As the exuberant 1920s give way to [...]
Over the course of a storied literary career that has spanned more than half a century, Ray Bradbury has taken us to wonderful places: across vast oceans to foreign lands, onto summer porches of small-town America, through dark and dangerous forests where predators wait, into the hypnotic mists of d[...]
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long- time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "li[...]
A master class in fresh, delicious, French-inspired cookingSince 1995, students have waited months and sometimes years for the privilege of learning to cook with Patricia Wells at Chanteduc, her eighteenth-century Provencal farmhouse, and at her Parisian cooking studio. Now, the culinary legend invi[...]
Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Dilibe[...]
Angela Clark is in the City of Love--but her own love life is in major trouble. Angela has officially made it in fabulous New York City. She's got amazing friends, an incredible job blogging for The Look magazine, and the perfect indie rocker boyfriend Alex--who seems very keen on moving in together[...]