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The Race

The Race
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): China, France, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two (1944)

Get ready for the race of your life… This is what it feels like when I’m running. When I’m running fast, I feel free. 12-year-old Lili is determined to defeat her arch rival in front of the Queen during...

The Rake and his Honour

The Rake and his Honour
  • Author(s): Beth Elliott
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

1813 Napoleon is on the rampage through France. But some are not willing to sit back and witness the end of the reign of King Louis and the Bourbons. Louise Fauriel comes from a family of talented silversmiths. Recently...

The Red Brick Haze

The Red Brick Haze
  • Author(s): R W Wallace
  • Location(s): Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present Day

Short prequel to The Red Brick Cellars No Good Deed Goes Unpunished When an explosion lays waste to part of the city of Toulouse and the citizens attempt to recover in the ravaged cityscape, Louis runs to the aid...

The Renoir Girls

The Renoir Girls
  • Author(s): Catherine Ostler
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...

The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu

The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu
  • Author(s): Alex Marsh
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Who wants a respectable retirement anyway? Not Ted Prescott, genial visitor to Mailliot le Bois, here on an impulsive mission to seek out his past whilst heroically diminishing the sleepy French town’s stocks of red wine. But once the...

The Reunion

The Reunion
  • Author(s): Guillaume Russo
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1992 & 2017

Welcome to a school reunion you won’t forget FRENCH RIVIERA, WINTER 1992 On a freezing night, as her high school campus is engulfed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell runs away with Alexis, her philosophy teacher. No one will...

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
  • Author(s): Timothy Taylor
  • Location(s): Paris, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything. Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular...

The Riviera

The Riviera
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The journey is only as good as its end… It’s been a hard journey, but Lizzie Lambert’s life is a Provençal dream come true. Her business is wildly successful, and with her little boy and the love of her...

The Riviera House

The Riviera House
  • Author(s): Natasha Lester
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939 / present

When Remy discovers she’s mysteriously inherited a house on the French Riviera, she drops everything to go there, desperately seeking answers and an escape from her broken heart. There, she’s shocked to find a catalogue of the artwork known...

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Mary S Lovell
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French...

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