An Absinthe Scrapbook (illustrated PDF ebook)

	- Absinthe Recipes - cocktails with a bitter streak
	- Absinthe Tales - lurid short stories from the Bohemian Age, inspired by visions of the Green Goddess

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A Vintage Paris Photo Tour (PDF ebook postcard album)

An ebook album of antique photos of Paris, mainly late 19th century / early 20th. Includes monchrome, sepia, hand-tinted and colortint images.

This digital scrapbook edition contains over one hundred period photos, mainly old postcards, of Paris, Parisians the River Seine, and all the famous monuments (Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Louvre, Bastille, Champs Elysées, Notre Dame...), including aerial views, architecture and busy, animated street scenes.

The photos are organised by theme, together with hyperlinked contents table. The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect” background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's photo souvenir album. Supplied as a landscape format PDF file, for Acrobat Reader. Price only $3.99 / £2.23 Buy online now

Baudelaire's Paris - a literary tour, by Nigel Woodhead

A literary guided tour through 19th century Bohemian Paris. Evocatively illustrated, with suggested poems (original  French with English translations) for each of the landmark locations from the life of cult French poet Charles Baudelaire, author of the Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil). 

Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris - Tour Guide

New, Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles Baudelaire, Club des Haschischins, Moulin Rouge, Paris 
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Graphic photo art and vintage saucy postcard & lithograph designs - "wear your art on your sleeve!"

Cancan Girls - an e-book album of vintage erotic nudes and postcards

Over 100 vintage erotic images - genuine old photos and postcards - frilly fillies, lacey ladies from France, from the Naughty Nineties to the Flappers of the Roaring Twenties, in one elegant e-book! Dancers from famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge often modelled in their spare time, and many of these images survive as postcards. Includes rare photos by famous pioneer photographers such as Nadar, Grundworth, Agelou and Calavas.

Exotic dancers, French maids in uniform, Parisian prostitutes in sexy stockings and suspenders, as well as a cheeky chorus line of cancan girls, ballet and belly dancers, actresses, artists' models, courtesans, Mata Haris, strip teasers, nudes, risqué lingerie, artistic poses and soft focus portraits - naughty Victorian, Edwardian, WWI and 20's beauties. Vive la difference!

Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images. Mock parchment paper effect completes the Victorian "look-and-feel", perfect bedtime reading for a traveling gentleman's portable library... Fascinating insight into the "secret history" of ladies underwear and cosmetic fashion!

100+ French Cabaret Girls - Vintage Postcard Album

Voyagers and Voyeurs, by Nigel Woodhead

A treasure-chest from the golden age of travel writing. Long before Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde, travellers from the English-speaking world were amazed by the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining about the waiters, the plumbing, admiring the cheeseboards and pretty girls. 
Annotated, humorous highlights from well over 100 travel accounts (travelogues, diaries, journals, collected letters, reports, guide books, literature) written between 1750 and 1918. English and American authors, including some of the most famous literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dickens, RL Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Henry James, Thackeray, plus an eccentric host of itinerant parsons, amateur antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats and ladies of independent spirit. A huge read. 

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 Kill or Curare - a historical crime novel, by Nigel Woodhead

May 1897. Suicidal playwright Oscar Wilde, just released from  prison, arrives in Dieppe. On the same ferry is Captain Drake Hastings, sent by British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, ostensibly to “protect national interests”...
Hastings soon discovers there is far worse beneath the skin of the chic resort than mere political intrigue: against a “Naughty Nineties” backdrop of disease and drugs, absinthe, vice and violence, a serial killer appears to be responsible for the abductions and murders of several English prostitutes working in the town. The authorities are strangely keen to cover up these crimes. Crimes which echo those of the Whitechapel (Ripper) murders of 1888.
The novel features a host of historical characters - decadent writers and artists including Audbrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Arthur Symons and Leonard Smithers, as well as Edward the Prince of Wales. 

Paris 1907 - Vintage Postcards - Calendar 2007

A dozen nostalgic souvenir picture postcards from Paris as it was a century ago. Fascinating and inspiring historical images of the French capital's most famous monuments and streets: the Arc de Triomphe, Rue de Rivoli, Notre Dame Cathedral... Calendar includes French national holidays for 2007, for extra Gallic flavor! A great gift, or just treat yourself! C'est bon!