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egginacup · 12/07/2018 19:06

Off on a school trip to Paris next week Grin It’s a long coach journey so looking to fill my kindle with some great Paris-set novels to distract me from the whinging teenagers... any suggestions? I’ve read Suite Francaise and loved it.

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tripfiction · 21/07/2018 13:17

Here is a list of curated books set in Paris for a bit of #literarywanderlust www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Paris&btitle=&bauthor=&genre=Genre...
Enjoy your trip!

HopeClearwater · 24/07/2018 20:30

The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain (author mentioned by pp) is lovely and is as much about Paris as about the hat Smile

whataboutbob · 29/07/2018 18:06

Down and out in Paris and London for a view of the underbelly in the 30s.
If you have time for anything chunkier a Zola such as The Belly of Paris.
Pure. Can't remember the author, set shortly before the Revolution, about the creation of the catacombs but a great social snapshot of pre modern, pre republican France in a time of transition.

kikashi · 06/08/2018 09:40

L'Assomoir by Emile Zola - fantastic book. the dark, seedy life, living cheek by jowl of the working class in Paris .

user1495807524 · 06/08/2018 16:12

Winter in Paris.

Lightshines · 06/08/2018 23:26

whataboutbob Pure - Andrew Miller

I loved The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/author/ref=mwdppaap??encoding=UTF8&author=Kathleen%20Tessaro&searchAlias=books&asin=B001H9PE4U

Justsaynonow · 08/08/2018 01:46

Revolution by Jennifer Robson (YA but very good - I still think of it when I go to Paris, and it inspired DD to go watch the sunrise from Sacre Coeur)

Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson, 4 books in the series

The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman

The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay (not my favourite, but interesting read about the Haussman times in Paris)

And Chicklit:
Paris for One by Jojo Moyes
Weekend in Paris

Someone has already mentioned Suite Francaise, The Paris Wife and The Lollipop Shoes

elkiedee · 08/08/2018 08:30

Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
memoir - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast - very much a source for Paula McLain's The Paris Wife novel mentioned above

Justsaysonow - Do you mean Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly?

larinai · 08/08/2018 14:19

Oh I like this one a lto!

Justsaynonow · 08/08/2018 16:48

elkiedee oops, yes. Donnelly not Robson Blush

Rochelaise18 · 10/08/2018 20:50

Double Life is set in and around Paris

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