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An Act of Love

An Act of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 WW2

France, 1943. Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left...

The Artisan’s Star

The Artisan’s Star
  • Author(s): Gabriella Contestabile
  • Location(s): Florence, Grasse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Elio Barati’s perfumery shop in Florence marks its entrance with a mosaic star. This shop immerses Elio in the artisanal world he loves, but he harbors a regret. As a young man he created a full-fledged perfume of jasmine,...

The Forgotten Summer

The Forgotten Summer
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...

Scent of Triumph

Scent of Triumph
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Grasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...

The Secret Life of Writers

The Secret Life of Writers
  • Author(s): Guillaume Musso
  • Location(s): Îles d'Hyères
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. As Fawles’ novels continue to captivate...

Swimming Home

Swimming Home
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is July, 1994 and Joe Jacobs, who is well known poet, his war reporter wife Isabel, and their 14 year old daughter are renting a holiday villa near Nice, accompanied by their friends Laura and Mitchell. Part into...

We Are Together Because

We Are Together Because
  • Author(s): Kerry Andrew
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...

The Case of the Missing Madonna

The Case of the Missing Madonna
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Cannes, Eze, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four old friends. Thrown back together after forty years apart. What could possibly go wrong? In the 1970s, The Girls were best friends sharing a house and good times: Zara the famous diva actor, Val the uptight solicitor, Jackie...

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