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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...

Surface

Surface
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Aveyron, Decazeville, Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Police capitaine Noemie Chastain has everything: a coveted position in Paris, a devoted team and a loving partner. In an instant, she loses it all. On a dawn raid in a grimy Parisian banlieue, in an instant, she loses...

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...

Tata

Tata
  • Author(s): Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator)
  • Location(s): Gueugnon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Tata begins with a mystery―Agnès receives a phone call from a local policeman saying she must come to Gueugnon in the French provinces to identify the body of her aunt Colette. This comes as a shock because, as far as...

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...

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