You may like fairy tale endings, but how did fairy tales begin? The Lost Princess is the story behind French fairy tales and the women who wrote them.
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From her Midwestern roots to a French culinary school, Jane Bertch is an American with much to learn about making a living and making a life in Paris. -
In early Christianity, the descriptions of hell were intended to scare the hell out of you, or as Bart Ehrman writes, “to scare you out of hell.”
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Miss Beatrice Steele is obsessed with murder. Not committing murders, but solving the mysteries she reads about in the London newspapers. -
“The whole truth about the Venus de Milo is not known, but I know it.” So wrote an 87-year-old French sailor named Matterer who died in 1868. -
At the age of 28, Oliver Darkshire and his career prospects are adrift in London until he finds a job at Henry Sotheran Ltd., a rare bookshop.