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The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Wengen
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-Second World War

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...

The Secret Life of France

The Secret Life of France
  • Author(s): Lucy Wadham
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced...

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers
  • Author(s): Marta Molnar, Dana Marton (Translator)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s

When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...

The Secret Stealers

The Secret Stealers
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards1

A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and...

The Secret Ways of Perfume

The Secret Ways of Perfume
  • Author(s): Cristina Caboni
  • Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...

The Secrets of Provence

The Secrets of Provence
  • Author(s): Daisy Wood
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 / Contemporary

Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance movement. Secrecy and subterfuge are her constant companions in her life on...

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Provençal Mystery Series #7 One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valère Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a...

The Secrets We Hide

The Secrets We Hide
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 - 2012

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
  • Author(s): Leila Marouane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The protagonist is a handsome, wealthy Parisian bank manager. Born in the Maghreb, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety and fervant Islamism. But he’s through with all that. The time has...

The Silver Thread

The Silver Thread
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s / 1980s

THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS… London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to...

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