THE PARIS EXPRESS

Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris Express, determined to make her mark on history.

With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress.

All their fates are bound together as the trains speeds towards the City of Light...

Inspired by a famous rail disaster, The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that evokes an era not so different from our own.

ISBN: 9781035057276
Imprint: Picador
Publication Date: 25 March 2025
Dimensions: 155mm x 231mm
Weight: 370g 
No. Of Pages: 288