Fifteen year old Doria is in the misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back to Morocco to find a wife who can give him a boy. This novel tells the story of Doria who is both clued up and innocent, acutely aware of what's in store for her and powerless to change it. She is funny, clever and tragically trapped.

Private Paris homes only open their doors to the few. This book shows us around 50 imaginatively conceived apartments and houses, the homes of prominent people such as Isabelle Adjani, Helena Christensen and Christian and Francoise Lacroix.

Offers a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. This book takes you on a guided tour of the people and places associated with the Parisian legend. It includes interviews with painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, poets, and explores the old brothels and an erotic bookshop.

Composed of a sequence of images punctuated by a series of essays which explore Paris through its architectural features and materials, this book focuses on both famous landmarks and lesser-known, anonymous buildings.

One Friday afternoon Molly Clearwater walks out of her job, smarting from her boss' taunt that she is 'just a stupid secretary'. Twenty-one, a country girl who has lived her life mainly through the pages of books and in her own imagination, she feels that nothing exciting has ever happened to her or ever will.

A guide to century-old cafes, bistros and gourmet food shops.

An Aimee Leduc investigation.

Tells the story of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation.

This volume contains many photographs taken by Brassai which have never had wide circulation before because of their daring nature. His subject is the forbidden Paris of the 1930s, its opium dens, its brothels and its whores, where high society mingled with the underworld.

Drawn from journals, this book offers an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage.

This new translation successfully combines a feeling for the formal proprieties of Dumas's style with a supple and colloquial liveliness that once again proves this story irresistible.

A wonderful story of discovery around the delightful, intricate Paris metro

A story of love between a German soldier and a Resistance fighter in Occupied France.

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favor from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde.

The bestselling children's travel series is now available in the UK.

Historic Montmartre is the scene of present-day terrorism in Paris. A sixth investigation, by private investigator Aimee Leduc.

The story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting Madame X that propelled the artist to international renown but condemned his subject to a life of public ridicule.

A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.