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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...

The Silvered Serpents

The Silvered Serpents
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris, Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost – one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a...

The Single Soldier

The Single Soldier
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

It is said that home is where the heart is, but when war rips a young man from everything he knows and loves, will he be able to find his way back to everything that matters? In war torn...

The Ski Trip

The Ski Trip
  • Author(s): Sarah Clarke
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT… Four friends go to the Alps on a boys’ skiing holiday. But their trip is cut short when one of them falls to his death. Zoe travels to France with Ivy to collect Tom’s body. While...

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir

The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Rachel Khoo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins in a tiny bedsit near the Bastille. Newly arrived from London, Rachel Khoo is trying to make a life for herself in Paris, carrying a British, Chinese-Malaysian and Austrian background, while juggling odd jobs, culinary school and...

The Snakes

The Snakes
  • Author(s): Sadie Jones
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all...

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