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'The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.

John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. Now, this expat who has lived in the City of Light for more than twenty years introduces you to the city’s streets after dark, revealing hidden treasures and unexpected delights.

As he takes you through five of the city’s greatest neighborhoods—Montmartre, Montparnasse, the Marais, and more—Baxter shares pithy anecdotes about his life in France, as well as fascinating knowledge he has gleaned from leading literary tours of the city by dark. With Baxter as your guide, you will discover the City of Light as never before, walking in the ghostly footsteps of Marcel Proust, the quintessential night owl for whom memory was more vivid than reality; Hungarian photographer Gyula Halász, known as Brassai, who prowled the midnight streets, camera in hand, with his friend Henry Miller; Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault, who shared the Surrealists’ taste for the city’s shadowed, secret world; and Josephine Baker and other African-American performers who dazzled adventurous Parisians at late-night jazz clubs.

A feast for the mind and the senses, Five Nights in Paris takes you through the haunts of Paris’s most storied artists and writers to the scenes of its most infamous crimes in a lively off-the-beaten-path tour not found in any guidebook.' (Harper Collins)

'For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris.We'll Always Have Paris is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. It explores the old brothels - temples of sensuality in 18th century Paris - and an erotic bookshop.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Biography of Lorand Loblay told in novel form by John Baxter

With the human race nearing extinction and the Earth now controlled by a new race of beast-like creatures, the few surviving humans isolate themselves in the City, an enormous construction with the ability to travel in both time and space. As humanity's situation becomes critical, the City travels back to the twentieth century in a desperate attempt to save humanity once and for all.