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All That We Have Lost

All That We Have Lost
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline - 1944 and 2019

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...

Her Mother’s Secret

Her Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sauzon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland – the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany – afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears...

All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See
  • Author(s): Anthony Doerr
  • Location(s): St Malo, Brittany, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War...

A Parachute in the Lime Tree

A Parachute in the Lime Tree
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1938-41

April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...

Death in Pont-Aven

Death in Pont-Aven
  • Author(s): Jean-Luc Bannalec
  • Location(s): Pont-Aven
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A strange murder in an idyllic French seaside village, a major family tragedy, and a puzzling secret await Commissioner Dupin in this captivating whodunit thriller. At the Central Hotel in Pont Aven, Brittany, 91-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found...

Lady at the Lodge

Lady at the Lodge
  • Author(s): Graham Ley
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Napoleonic

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...

The Island of Mists and Miracles

The Island of Mists and Miracles
  • Author(s): Victoria Mas
  • Location(s): Île de Batz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Early 19th Century

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...

The Last Hours in Paris

The Last Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Ruth Druart
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

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...

The Mystery of Henri Pick

The Mystery of Henri Pick
  • Author(s): David Foenkinos
  • Location(s): Crozon
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4’s Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected...

About Uncle

About Uncle
  • Author(s): Jordan Stump (Translator), Rebecca Gisler
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

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