novels set in France

Page & Pairing Book Club

| Ted Wheeler

I’m a little slow on this news, but still excited to share that The War Begins in Paris was picked as the February Book Club book from Page & Pairing!

Click through to the site. It’s pretty cool how they put together everything your book club needs for the perfect book club meeting. The book; discussion questions; an essay from the author about the origins of the book; plus a wine selection and recipe for a simple meal that you can share with your group.

In this case they pair a bottle of Andre Brunel Cotes du Rhone Villages Cuvee Sabrine and chicken fricassee. Sounds so good! Check it out!

Caitlin Horrock’s Endorsement

| Ted Wheeler

I feel so lucky to have the great Caitlin Horrocks endorse The War Begins in Paris!

Caitlin’s The Vexations (about Erik Satie’s life in Belle Epoque France) is one of the best novels of the last five years. She was all booked to come to Omaha in 2020 to tell us about the novel at Omaha Lit Fest, but, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

“This powerful, immersive novel is simultaneously lush and chilling. Theodore Wheeler transports us to a place and time where friendships make it harder, not easier, to chart a moral path forward, and masterfully explores how love and loyalty can, for better and for worse, change what we’re willing to do, and who we understand ourselves to be.”

—Caitlin Horrocks, author of The Vexations

Timothy Schaffert Blurb

| Ted Wheeler

I’m so honored to share this fantastic endorsement for The War Begins in Paris from one of my favorite novelists (and the godfather of Nebraska authors) Timothy Schaffert!

His Paris novel, The Perfume Thief, is so charming, and being in conversation with Timothy about The Perfume Thief was my highlight of the last Omaha Lit Fest we did in back 2021. I can’t wait for his new novel, The Titanic Survivors Book Club, which is due out in April.

“This vivid novel takes on one of my favorite subjects: journalists in the war zone. Here we have ‘radio traitors’ among them, everybody wound tight, with questions of truth and trust all caught up in threat and propaganda. With fascinating parallels to our own cultural moment, The War Begins in Paris is a captivating and vibrant—and utterly present—portrait of chaos.”

—Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief