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French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley

French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley
  • Author(s): Linda Kovic-Skow
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

***Bronze Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction – Travel category at the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Book Award Contest*** Most lies are told with the expectation that no one will uncover them. When I was twenty-one I told a monumental and...

Trouble Brewing in the Loire

Trouble Brewing in the Loire
  • Author(s): Tommy Barnes
  • Location(s): Braslou (Indre-et-Loire)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Turn of the 2020s

(The Braslou Biere Chronicles #2)  Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy has decided to expand his beer business, and on the advice of his...

The Maid

The Maid
  • Author(s): Kimberly Cutter
  • Location(s): Orléans
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1400s

It is the early part of the fifteenth century and the tumultuous Hundred Years War rages on. The French city of Orleans is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside wreaking destruction on all who cross their path,...

Death and Fromage

Death and Fromage
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Follet Valley Mystery #2 Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town...

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Comedian, mod and professional grump Ian Moore has had enough. Tired of being unable to park anywhere near his cramped house in a noisy town he doesn’t like, he hatches a plan to move his wife and young son...

A Perfect Vintage

A Perfect Vintage
  • Author(s): Chelsea Fagan
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a highly sought-after consultant specializing in transforming dilapidated French country estates into boutique hotels, she relishes her freedom as a single, childfree woman. And her life is full, occupied as much by...

C’est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France

C’est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family and his ever-expanding menagerie are beginning to feel like they’re on the cusp of the peace and tranquillity they hoped for when they moved from dreary...

Escape to the French Farmhouse

Escape to the French Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Victoria Brownlee
  • Location(s): Paris, Chinon, Touraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

The heartwarming sequel to Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop. Ella moved to Paris on a whim – and found happily ever after. But after six months of romantic bliss, living with her French boyfriend, cheesemonger Serge, Ella’s new...

Five Quarters of the Orange

Five Quarters of the Orange
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1960s

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at...

Never on Saturday

Never on Saturday
  • Author(s): Sue Barnard
  • Location(s): Vendée, Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Medieval and present-day

A time-slip romance novella with a hint of mystery and a touch of the paranormal. It is set partly in medieval France and partly in present-day North Wales, and is based on an old French legend.

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