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The Room on Rue Amélie

The Room on Rue Amélie
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the...

The Rose Villa

The Rose Villa
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick...

The Safe Place

The Safe Place
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A BEAUTIFUL HOME MIGHT HIDE DANGEROUS SECRETS Emily Proudman has been offered the chance of a lifetime – leave her messy London life, move to a beautiful estate in France and help her boss’ wife take care of their...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Author(s): Baroness Orczy
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): French Revolution

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. The French Revolution is in full swing...

The Scent of Empires

The Scent of Empires
  • Author(s): Karl Schlögel, Jessica Spengler (Translator)
  • Location(s): France, Russia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this...

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,...

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