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Shadows of Conflict

Shadows of Conflict
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Dartmouth, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern (with references to WW2)

When Katie, redundant from her media job, accepts Mattie’s offer to take over her shop, A Good Yarn, in Dartmouth, she expects her life to be busy and unexciting. But with an American film crew in town intent on...

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company
  • Author(s): Sylvia Beach
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left...

Sharpe’s Assassin

Sharpe’s Assassin
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1815

Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it’s been his home ever since. He’s a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable...

Shooting Martha

Shooting Martha
  • Author(s): David Thewlis
  • Location(s): London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A darkly funny novel set between a London film set and a villa in the south of France – a mix of Vertigo and Jonathan Coe, written by a master storyteller Celebrated director Jack Drake can’t get through his...

Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Sightseeing, a novella, 25,500 words, is set in Paris, France, time span twenty-four hours. A man, Wayne, and a woman, Diane (or maybe Diane, for her name might not be Diane), meet and pursue an instant relationship in which...

Skin Deep

Skin Deep
  • Author(s): Liz Nugent
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Ireland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

From the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait ‘I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn’t that what I’ve been doing...

Sky Chasers

Sky Chasers
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphan Magpie can’t believe her eyes when she sees a boy swept off his feet by a kite … or something that twists and dances in the wind. She goes to his rescue only to find herself dangling in...

Sky’s the Limit

Sky’s the Limit
  • Author(s): Janie Millman
  • Location(s): Marrakech, France
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Present

Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else, even more that it is her oldest friend Nick. She has lost the two most important men in her life and can’t ever trust...

Skylark

Skylark
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660s / 1939

1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him...

Smoking Kills

Smoking Kills
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

-How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? In this witty black comedy, Laurain’s anti-hero can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime… When head-hunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to...

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