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Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard
  • Author(s): Jane Dunning
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary/1940s/WW2 in southern France

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard – the dramatic sequel to Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez and Stolen Summer Join Richard and Helen and the Ferguson family on the French Riviera as another long, hot summer begins with worries...

Sunstruck

Sunstruck
  • Author(s): William Rayfet Hunter
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of France. At the dinner table, the Blake siblings await him: Lily, his carefree friend from university; Dot, the rebellious younger sister;...

Super-Cannes

Super-Cannes
  • Author(s): J G Ballard
  • Location(s): Provence

Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern “Dream Palace” of “a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs”: its aim, “to turn Provence into Europe’s silicon valley”. Paul...

Surfing in Stilettos

Surfing in Stilettos
  • Author(s): Carol E Wyer
  • Location(s): Tarn-et-Garonne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Amanda Wilson is all geared up for an exciting gap-year, travelling across Europe. She soon finds her plans thwarted when she is abandoned in France with only a cellarful of Chateau Plonk, a large, orange Space Hopper, and Old...

Suslov’s Daughter

Suslov’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Habib Abdulrab Sarori
  • Location(s): Aden, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

As a young man growing up under communism in South Yemen, Imran finds himself drawn to Hawiya, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the ruling Marxist party. He departs Aden, the seaport city of his childhood, to study...

Talk to the Hand Model: A Guido la Vespa Romance in France

Talk to the Hand Model: A Guido la Vespa Romance in France
  • Author(s): Veronica Bell
  • Location(s): Avignon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hazel, a Canadian Ph.D candidate in Avignon, agrees to marry a top hand model, though she feels little passion for him. She is over 35 and feels her best chances at true love are behind her…until she meets a...

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Nice, Rome, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...

The Abandoned Daughter

The Abandoned Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Dieppe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Will Ella ever find what she’s looking for? Voluntary nurse Ella is haunted by the soldiers’ cries she hears on the battlefields of Dieppe. But that’s not the only thing that haunts her. When her dear friend Jim breaks...

The Accident on the A35 Paperback

The Accident on the A35 Paperback
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): North East France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The...

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar
  • Author(s): Aimee Alexander
  • Location(s): Ireland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, but she soon realises he possesses a charm that is impossible to resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, level-headed career girl Lucy is seriously considering...

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