A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light |
 Bryce Corbett
ISBN: 0767928172
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Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette |
 Sena Jeter Naslund
ISBN: 0060825391
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Almost French: A New Life in Paris |
 Sarah Turnbull
ISBN: 1857883705
Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready to go stellar! Publication timed for...(read more) |
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An Englishman in Paris: L'education Continentale |
 Michael Sadler
ISBN: 0743440463
A wonderfully warm and witty love letter to one of the world's great cities. Peter Mayle, author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE, writes in his Preface to this charming travel memoir: 'Michael Sadler was born in Lewes, a small town in the south of England....(read more) |
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Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs |
 Jeremy Mercer
ISBN: 0753820587
'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Gertrude...(read more) |
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Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer |
 Tad Szulc
ISBN: 0306809338
First time in paperback: The acclaimed biography of Chopin focusing on his 18 years in Paris at the center of a dazzling circle that included Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, List, Berlioz, and George Sand.. }Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin emigrated...(read more) |
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Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer |
Tad Szulc
ISBN: 0306809338
First time in paperback: The acclaimed biography of Chopin focusing on his 18 years in Paris at the center of a dazzling circle that included Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, List, Berlioz, and George Sand.. }Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin emigrated...(read more) |
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Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing |
 Charles Dickens, John Edmondson (Editor)
ISBN: 1904955061
"Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the...(read more) |
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Down and Out in Paris and London |
 George Orwell
ISBN: 0141187360
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, the book documents his 'first contact with poverty': sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in Paris, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living...(read more) |
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George Sand |
 Elizabeth Harlan
ISBN: 0300104170
George Sand was the most famous, and the most scandalous, woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific: she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers...(read more) |
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Gertrude and Alice: Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas |
 Diana Souhami
ISBN: 1842120336
"Twentieth century literature is Gertrude Stein". Or at least so thought Gertrude Stein, a sentiment she shared with few others, except of course Alice B Toklas. Gertrude and Alice met in 1907 in Paris and famously shared their lives from...(read more) |
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Hemingway: The Paris Years |
 Michael Reynolds
ISBN: 0393318796
This work looks at the 1920s in Paris, considered the pivotal years in Ernest Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, F. Scott...(read more) |
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In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain's Most Successful Tour De France Cyclist |
 Richard Moore
ISBN: 0007235011
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Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris |
 Ginette Vincendeau
ISBN: 0851709494
One of the most brilliant filmmakers in post-war France and world cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville now enjoys renewed popularity. His "Bob le flambeur" (with its street-wise Montmartre and Pigalle settings, its cool jazz score and its...(read more) |
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey |
 Antonia Fraser
ISBN: 0385489498
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My Life in France |
 Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
ISBN: 1400043468
Julia had been in Asia for World War II as part of the OSS and met her husband there. He was ten years older than she was and well traveled . . . especially in France. After World War II, he joined the USIS (predecessor to the USIA) which played a...(read more) |
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Paris to the Moon |
 Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 0099772019
Commissioned by The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries in Paris to the Moon. A self-described...(read more) |
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Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France |
 Floyd Landis (Author), Loren Mooney (Author)
ISBN: 1416950230
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution |
 Caroline Weber
ISBN: 0805079491
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Quicksands: A Memoir |
 Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 0241140374
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated in fiction and non-fiction what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she takes readers from the Berlin of...(read more) |
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Return to Paris |
 Rossant
ISBN: 0743439678
The author and journalist recounts how she was placed in the post-World War II home of her bitter Parisian grandmother and how she coped by throwing herself into cooking before her hotelier stepfather took her to accompany his chef scouting tours. |
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The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational Memoir |
 Mike Zwerin
ISBN: 0300108060
In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow or Hunter S. Thompson - writers to whom, for different reasons, he owes some allegiance. What makes him special is his devotion to...(read more) |
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier |
 Thaddeus Carhart, Thad Carhart
ISBN: 0375758623
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Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall (Bayou Jazz Lives) |
 Iain Cameron Williams
ISBN: 0826465366
Adelaide Hall is the missing link in Harlem's Renaissance, historically the richest period of American black culture. As its most important and influential female star, she dynamically pushed down the barriers that had previously prevented black...(read more) |
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love In The City Of Light |
 John Baxter
ISBN: 0553816004
For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics...(read more) |
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