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Fifteen Days in Paris

by

Jon Davey

Nonfiction / Travel / Memoir

Published on May 8, 2025
Self-published (526 Press)
310 pages

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How do you get to know a city?
Friends, guidebooks and influencers can point you to the agreed list of must-sees, but a city is so much more than its tourist landmarks.
In 2010, Jon Davey spent fifteen days in Paris as a student photographer.
He’d gone there without a plan so each day began with a clean slate, stepping out onto the streets of the Marais and then just wandering around, taking in whatever came his way.
A flâneur long before he even knew the word.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JON DAVEY
was born in Dundee
and studied Geography in Durham and London.
In 2007 he quit a job in IT to study for a BA in Photography.
He is a long-suffering fan of Dundee United
and has written about them and the Scottish game in general
in the football quarterly Nutmeg.

He works as a freelance photographer
and lives with his wife in Portobello, Edinburgh.
Fifteen Days in Paris is his first book.

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July 4, 2025

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Book giveaway: French Illusions #parisinjuly2023

French Illusions,
My Story as an American Au Pair
in the Loire Valley,
by
Linda Kovic-Skow

(memoir)

Published June 24, 2014
at Dreamland Press

262 pages

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SYNOPSIS

“French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley,” is the first of two books based on the author’s diaries.
It’s 1979 and Linda needs to learn a language fast in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a flight attendant. Broke yet determined, she chooses French immersion and contracts to become an au pair for a wealthy family in the Loire Valley.
To secure the job, she lies on her application and pretends to speak basic French, confident she’ll be forgiven once she arrives at the Château de Montclair.
As she struggles to adapt to her challenging new environment with the hard-to-please Madame Dubois and her two incomprehensible children, Linda signs up and attends language classes at the local university.
When she encounters Adam, a handsome young student, her life becomes more complicated—much more complicated—adding fuel to her internal battle for independence.
Join Linda on her adventure of discovery and romance in an extraordinary part of the world.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Linda is an award-winning author and travel enthusiast.
Her two-book memoir series,
French Illusions, My Story as an American Au Pair
and From Tours to Paris, is based on her diaries from 1979 and 1980.
Originally from Seattle, Linda now resides in Saint Petersburg, Florida
with her longtime husband.
To this day, she tells people that she’s thankful for her storybook life.

Visit her website,
or connect with her on Facebook and Twitter