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The Englishman

The Englishman
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): London, France, The Urals
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Raglan Book 1) Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that’s exactly...

The Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Challenge
  • Author(s): S C Godfrey
  • Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

The Exile and the Mapmaker

The Exile and the Mapmaker
  • Author(s): Emma Musty
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An important novel that is as compassionate as it is eye-opening, The Exile and the Mapmaker is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once...

The Falcons Of Montabard

The Falcons Of Montabard
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Location(s): France, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 13th Century

Sabin FitzSimon, disgraced son of an earl, finally has the chance to salvage his reputation when renowned knight Edmund Strongfist asks Sabin to join him on his journey to the Holy Land, offering sword and services to the King...

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
  • Author(s): Ellery Lloyd
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Dubai, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938/1991/contemporary

Some women can’t be erased from history . . . A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist...

The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars

The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars
  • Author(s): Glen Craney
  • Location(s): Cathar Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 13th century

As the 13th century dawns, an ancient scroll hidden in the French Pyrenees is rumored to hold shocking revelations about Jesus of Nazareth. To preserve this lost evidence of His teachings, a charismatic Cathar holy woman must defy Rome....

The Forgetting Flower

The Forgetting Flower
  • Author(s): Karen Hugg
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets and half-truths. These litter Renia Baranczka’s past, but the city of Paris has offered an escape and the refuge of a dream job. The specialty plant shop buzzes with activity and has brought her to a new friend,...

The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger

The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): ww2

Arthur Pettinger’s memory isn’t what it used to be. He can’t always remember the names of his grandchildren, where he lives or which way round his slippers go. He does remember Maryse though, a woman he hasn’t seen for...

The French Adventure

The French Adventure
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Packed full of French flavour and idyllic settings this is a romantic, heart-warming and unputdownable new novel about life and love, perfect for anyone who loves Milly Johnson, Lucy Diamond and Debbie Johnson. Suddenly unemployed and single, Anna escapes...

The French Bookshop Murder

The French Bookshop Murder
  • Author(s): Greg Mosse
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants, reading her beloved books,...

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