The literary capital of the world, cradle of philosophers, inspiration for novelists, and playground of historians. From sun-soaked Mediterranean shores filled with romance and intrigue, to the tedious rhythms of a Provence where triumph and heartbreak often meet on the same page. To Parisian cafes, alleys, and grandiose boulevards with more stories and drama than Voltaire's Candide, France is a reading journey lasting well beyond the end of the night.
Grey afternoons, warm cafés, cheap rooms and nights without much restraint. Henry Miller remembers Paris as a penniless writer, finding pleasure in friendship, sex and the freedom to wander, with a brief jaunt to Luxembourg along the way. A short, explicit and unexpectedly tender journey through the city’s bohemian life.
The Riviera dazzles in Sagan’s brief, dangerous summer. Sea, heat and freedom become the backdrop to a teenager’s game with desire, and the coast’s easy glamour takes on a sharper edge.
A young student's affair with an older married man brings pleasure and disillusion into tension, exploring the uncertain boundaries of romantic freedom.
Resistance operatives seek refuge for political fugitives in Vichy France, pressing an industrialist into a dangerous decision about shelter and responsibility.
Refugees from Nazism seek precarious lives in prewar Paris, where displacement and attachment unfold beneath the shadow of another approaching conflict.
After Dunkirk, a British officer undertakes a dangerous mission in Brittany, entering occupied territory where identity and survival become closely linked.
The Moreau sisters confront the surprises of adulthood, while a Christmas gathering draws their family into renewed questions of love and responsibility.
A boy carrying financial secrets flees a relentless pursuer during the Nazi era, making childhood vulnerability the centre of an international thriller.
