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Vianne

Vianne
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets. Chocolate. A touch of magic… On the evening of July 4th, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother’s ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille. For the first time...

Villa of Second Chances

Villa of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Run by sisters Rebecca and Delphine, Villa Sesame is a popular venue for small intimate weddings on the sparkling French Riviera. Beautiful terraces and a horizon pool overlook the Mediterranean, a setting where dreams come true. When recently widowed...

Villa of Sun and Secrets

Villa of Sun and Secrets
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. Finding an envelope...

Virtuoso

Virtuoso
  • Author(s): Yelena Moskovich
  • Location(s): Prague, Paris, Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana’s seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur...

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
  • Author(s): Natasha Farrant
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

The second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling author of The Children of Castle Rock. In the aftermath of World War One, everyone is trying...

We Are Not in the World

We Are Not in the World
  • Author(s): Conor O’Callaghan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger – his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together,...

We Fought For Ardnish

We Fought For Ardnish
  • Author(s): Angus MacDonald
  • Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
  • Era(s): WW2 and after

After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...

We Would Never Tell

We Would Never Tell
  • Author(s): Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gowns. Champagne. Murder. Hollywood, but make it French, for twelve days straight, as the red carpet rolls out to the riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. The most famous people are all here to celebrate themselves, while the rest...

Weaving a French Life: An Australian story

Weaving a French Life: An Australian story
  • Author(s): Catherine Berry
  • Location(s): France, Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

‘Weaving a French Life: An Australian story’ is a sequel to Catherine’s memoir ‘But you are in France, Madame.’ Seven years have passed since Catherine returned to Australia with her family after their French adventure. Has she been able...

Weep for the Dead

Weep for the Dead
  • Author(s): Tom Becket
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, South West France, The Gironde Estuary
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER and REDEMPTION as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her; the Bordeaux Police Force; and the ruthless, deadly Vietnamese mob. The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of old Bordeaux...

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