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The Value of Nothing

The Value of Nothing
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Youssef Tigha lives in a makeshift camp in the centre of Paris. He’s twelve years old. An Arab. Michael Finistere is a financier with several homes. Chance, or fate, brings the migrant and the multi-millionaire together. For one of...

The View Was Exhausting

The View Was Exhausting
  • Author(s): Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
  • Location(s): St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The epic love story of the summer. Whitman ‘Win’ Tagore and Leo Milanowski are the greatest love story of our time. International movie star meets the beautiful son of a millionaire. Their kisses write headlines and their fights break...

The Viking Hostage

The Viking Hostage
  • Author(s): Tracey Warr
  • Location(s): France, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 10th century

The Viking Hostage is set in late 10th century France and Wales, and tells the stories of three women living through turbulent power struggles across Europe, Viking raids, and fears of The End of Time. Sigrid is a Norwegian...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Clare Boyd
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One perfect family. Two weeks in the sun. A secret that will tear them apart. Nora just wanted some time with her daughters, away from everything, in the stunning stone villa under the heat of the French sun. Lazy...

The Vineyard

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

It’s been five years, and Lizzie Lambert has decided it’s time to try to make things right with her estranged mother. She’s made a success of things in Cannes, she’s bringing up a lovely little boy on her own,...

The Vineyard in Alsace

The Vineyard in Alsace
  • Author(s): Julie Stock
  • Location(s): Alsace
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is there really such a thing as a second chance at love? Fran Schell has only just become engaged when she finds her fiancé in bed with another woman. She knows this is the push she needs to break...

The War Begins in Paris

The War Begins in Paris
  • Author(s): Theodore Wheeler
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon...

The War Nurse

The War Nurse
  • Author(s): Tracey Enerson Wood
  • Location(s): Rouen, St Louis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1917-1918 WW1

Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-four nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows that the young nurses serving near the front lines will face a challenging situation,...

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night
  • Author(s): Harriet Walker
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lizzie calls off her wedding in the south of France only a week before the big day, not even her closest friends know why. But since the chateau is already paid for, they figure it’s the perfect place...

The Witch’s List

The Witch’s List
  • Author(s): Andrew Cairns
  • Location(s): France, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Horror, Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 80s to present day

Sandy Beech doesn’t believe in witches and the supernatural. However, certain strange events occur which put his scepticism to the test: a burning book, a falling crucifix, a mysterious illness, and a fire in a convent which kills all...

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