The Book Lover’s Guide to Paris is like a traditional guidebook but with the focus being on writers or books and characters that are set in the city. It includes major sights like the Louvre, Notre Dome to more minor locations like bars and bookshops. I was happy to see many locations I’ve visited and added new spots for my next stay. The book sections include: Victor Hugo’s Paris, Great French Writers of the 19th Century, Writers of La Belle Epoque, (Oscar) Wilde About Paris, The Lost Generation, The Harlem Renaissance, Post-War Paris, and Writers of Today. Beautiful photographs help showcase places mentioned. I like that it includes brief information about the authors it spotlights. I learned tidbits I didn’t know. It also lets you know if places are still accessible or if a plaque marks a spot where someone once lived. I don’t know that I need to sleep in a hotel room where someone once lived or drink in a bar where Hemingway and Fitzgerald drank but it’s fun to know you can. This is very easy reading and informative. This book will need to go hand in hand with a traditional guidebook as it doesn’t include tourist information like hours of operation or prices of admission. There are also no maps to help find locations. But this is a fun guide with a different focus of one most iconic cities in the world.

I am a huge Paris lover so this book was right up my alley. Made me want to book a future trip to the City of Lights again. Would definitely recommend this book!

This was so tedious to read. I'm tempted to say it was written by AI because every bland turn of phrase available to the English language is used multiple times (the author should banish "the likes of" from her vocabulary), but there were too many grammar mistakes, usage inconsistencies, misplaced modifiers and poor French for this to have been a computer's fault. Avoid.

There are few things I love more than Paris AND reading and then this book comes along and merges two of my favorite things (cue the music).

This wonderful project is part informative, part history lesson, part guidebook in one big love letter to lovers of literature. Taking us through the streets of Paris to famous and off the beaten path bookstores, places of interest, and simply a lesser traveled route, The Book Lovers Guide to Paris not only helps a first time visitor see the city, but for anyone who's been, it's with a new perspective and appreciation.

I absolutely want to book my ticket to put this book to good use.

**Thank you to the publisher for an advanced reader copy for an honest review.

A great travel compendium if you want to travel like your literature heroes. You can find lots of hidden gems of places to visit to follow in their footsteps and some brilliant discoveries to enjoy.

As a book lover and travel enthusiast, I would highly recommend "The Book Lover's Guide to Paris" by Emily Cope. This book is an extensive and informative travel companion that is perfect for anyone interested in the literary history of Paris. The guide spans three centuries of Parisian literary culture and covers writers like Victor Hugo and Dan Brown, providing readers with a comprehensive look into the lives, literature, haunts, and homes of some of the world's best writers.

One of the things that impressed me the most about this guide is how well the author captured the essence of Paris through her writing. Her descriptions are vivid and engaging, and the full-color photographs are breathtaking and perfectly capture the spirit and atmosphere of the city. With this guide, readers can immerse themselves in the world of Parisian literature and feel like they are walking in the footsteps of their favorite writers.

But this guide is not just informative and entertaining; it is also full of practical information that will make it easy for book lovers to explore the abundance of literary history Paris has to offer. The author has included useful tips on everything from visiting bookstores and literary landmarks to exploring the city's café culture. With this guide in hand, readers can create their own literary itinerary and make the most of their time in Paris.

Whether you're planning a trip to Paris or just want to learn more about the city's literary heritage, "The Book Lover's Guide to Paris" is an excellent choice. The author's passion for literature and travel shines through on every page, making this guide a delightful and informative read that is sure to satisfy any book lover's wanderlust. Highly recommended!

Paris is is is the city of love and a city that has been home to many authors over the years and is the setting to many books, romance or not. Some of its famous residents include Victor Hugo, Oscar Wild and Alexandre Dumas.

I haven’t been to Paris for years but reading this made me really ready to go back. The full of places to visit and things to see and tips for travelers along with so facts and pieces of information about authors lives and the books they wrote. It’s a fabulous and intriguing read for book lovers who know Paris and those who don’t, those planning to visit and those happy to stay at home.

The book lover's guide to Paris is a kind of literary guide where authors from different time-frames are used as a frame for information about interesting venues and sights.
Last year I read a Dutch guide, Chansons! which did about the same but then French chansons were the main guideline for the book and the book was full of anecdotes en interesting stories.
When I requested the book lover's guide to Paris I had hoped that it would be a bit like the Chanson! guide I read, but I was a bit disappointed because it was more a catalogue of writer's that have lived or worked in Paris. I would have liked a bit more anecdotes and background stories.
The book is certainly useful, but not really an interesting book to read, so just 2 stars for this one.
I want to thank Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Every time I picked up "The Book Lover's Guide to Paris", I was whisked away, and learned something new about Paris, literature, and I simply could not put this book down!

Emily Cope is such an incredible writer, and I was truly hooked from the first page of this book to the last! I can only imagine the amount of research she must have done, and I found this book intriguing, engaging, and truly unique.

This book is so full of history from various time periods, literary references and facts, photographs, and information related to literature in one way or another. As a book lover, I absolutely loved it, and would so love to see this become a series focusing on different locations throughout the world!

I highly recommend this book!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Pen & Sword-White Owl Book for the review copy of this book, and to Pen & Sword-White Owl Books for having me as part of the Bookstagram Tour for this book! All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

I will always pick up anything and everything pertaining to Paris. I love that this gives a personalized insight to the best that the city has to offer. I hope to use this one day

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<b>The Book Lover’s Guide to Paris</b> is the perfect guidebook for literary buffs looking to explore all Paris has to offer in that regard. Well laid out with plenty of photographs and maps and choked full of information on such greats as Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, and many more. Plus, there is an entire chapter dedicated to bookshops and biblioteques (libraries). As well as a short chapter on places to stay. This will definitely be coming with me when I visit Paris!

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This was a great short guide to literary greats in relation to Paris and the places associated to these writers. From where to eat, drink and stay, all key locations are covered. There is a nice review of bookshops as well and who frequented which. I completely enjoyed every page and can't wait to go visit the places I haven't already been to.

A fantastic guide to help me navigate my weekend away to Paris in 2023!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for a review.

Part travel guide, part history book, part love-letter to reading and literature. Lovely essays about all three topics intertwined, accompanied by photographs, both of which make you want to visit Paris and run out to your local bookshop right now. C'est magnifique.

The Book Lover's Guide to Paris is a literary guidebook to significant places in Paris and environs chosen, curated, and written by Emily Cope. Released 29th Nov 2022 by Pen & Sword on their White Owl imprint, it's 136 pages and is available in paperback format. 

The guidebook is divided into thematic chapters which lead adventurous bibliophiles to landmarks which were either mentioned in, or were contemporaneous with works of literature from Victor Hugo through the current day. There's also a solid chapter on bookstores and libraries as well as where to stay. The book is enhanced throughout with full colour clear photographs which are annotated. Many of the entries also include contact information for relevant destinations which will help during planning and execution of book themed trips to Paris. 

Four stars. Well written and useful guide. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Fabulous guidebook to Paris through the lens of a reader. Broken down by period, the book provides information on sites important to literature, as well as information about the authors and their lives. My main takeaway from this book: to force himself to write, Victor Hugo would give his clothes to his servants and tell them not to return them to him until he'd stopped procrastinating. I should perhaps try this.
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4.25+ stars

If you’re a fan of Paris, literature, art, history, or travel, you’ll probably enjoy this book. It was a lovely little literary adventure that made me desperately want to go back to France in the near future and that gave me plenty of ideas for what to do when I’m there. I do think this book would be more impressive as a hard copy; the advance ebook version had a lot of formatting issues, but I would like to see how it was all intended to look with the photos, sections, etc. laid out properly. That may just mean I have to pick up a physical copy of the book before I go back to Paris; I can’t wait!

Covering literary history with many illustrations, the book is one I am going to
keep in my library at least till I've gone to Paris again.

Very similar to a travel guide but emphasising writers and artistes in the literary world.

Interesting factual reading. Good visuals.

If you are a book lover who also loves Paris, then this book is a must have! Covering all the writers from Victor Hugo on, one could spend days just traveling from site to site. Nicely photographed, full of details, and bursting with little known facts about the authors. I will definitely be taking a copy along on my next Paris trip! Who knows, maybe it will ignite something in me and I will become a famous author too!

I want to go all these places now! I haven’t heard of most of the places listed so it was so very neat to read the history of them all. The pictures are so cool.