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Strapless

Strapless
  • Author(s): Deborah Davis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

The story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting “Madame X” that propelled the artist to international renown but condemned his subject to a life of public ridicule.

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Coldest Case

The Coldest Case
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No 14 in the Dordogne Mysteries Bruno Courreges is Chief of Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime. But...

The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

The Corsican Widow

The Corsican Widow
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Corsica, 1755. Can Valeria Peretti escape the destiny that is mapped out for her? While the island struggles for independence against its Genoese masters, she must marry an older, wealthy man. A quiet, respectable life apparently awaits Valeria, but...

The Cover Wife

The Cover Wife
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...

The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado
  • Author(s): Elaine Dundy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, ‘one of the best novels about growing up fast’. Sally Jay Gorce...

The First Noël at the Villa des Violettes

The First Noël at the Villa des Violettes
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Antibes, Strasbourg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

THE LOVE IN PROVENCE CHARACTERS ARE BACK … Everything was going so well in Kat and Philippe’s life together. Then suddenly it wasn’t. Roman ruins delayed the work on the Villa des Violettes. The Russian drug gang might be...

The Girl with No Shadow

The Girl with No Shadow
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

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