This is the first book in the Wentworth Family saga, about a family living in the Napoleonic times who are involved in Brittany and Devon because the mother, Sempronie, comes from a Breton family and has property there. The...

This is the third novel in the saga of the Wentworth family. Rumours of a planned French invasion of Britain in 1796 have reached the British government. Amid the uncertainty, the Anglo-Breton Wentworth family continue to move forward with...

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata. At an age when she’d rather...

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which...

Published in 1990 in French original, this book is one of a pair by Rossi about his time in Nantes in Western France. For literary tourists Rossi names places that can be found. The very first paragraph speaks of...

Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...

2019. When Imogen Wren’s husband dies, she must realise their dream of moving to France on her own. She finds a beautiful abandoned chateau and starts to rebuild her life among its ruins. But she soon notices that the...

The story is set in the small seaside town of Concarneau, which is left shaken when a local man is shot dead by a mystery assailant hiding in a deserted house. Fear sweeps through the town, which soon falls...

Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local...

Who wants a respectable retirement anyway? Not Ted Prescott, genial visitor to Mailliot le Bois, here on an impulsive mission to seek out his past whilst heroically diminishing the sleepy French town’s stocks of red wine. But once the...