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Lunch in Paris

Lunch in Paris
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bard
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

The author moves to Paris and this is the story of her acclimatisation, and integrations into Parisian culture. The moving, sometimes funny and often heartening text is interspersed with delicious looking recipes.

Mrs Hemingway

Mrs Hemingway
  • Author(s): Naomi Wood
  • Location(s): Antibes, Cuba (Republic of), World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are...

Surf Mama

Surf Mama
  • Author(s): Wilma Johnson
  • Location(s): Biarritz
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

Wilma Johnson was living on the west coast of Ireland with her family, balancing the challenges of being an artist, wife and mother, until, in her forties, she was gripped by a deep desire to seize the day, and...

The Cleaner of Chartres

The Cleaner of Chartres
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Chartres
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained-glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnès Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each...

The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper

The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper
  • Author(s): Phaedra Patrick
  • Location(s): England, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. On the anniversary of her death, he finally musters the courage to go through her possessions, and happens upon a charm bracelet...

The Heatwave

The Heatwave
  • Author(s): Kate Riordan
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s - 1990s

Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in Provence, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering...

Wolfsangel

Wolfsangel
  • Author(s): Liza Perrat
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Seven decades after German troops march into her village, Céleste Roussel is still unable to assuage her guilt. 1943. German soldiers occupy provincial Lucie-sur-Vionne, and as the villagers pursue treacherous schemes to deceive and swindle the enemy, Céleste embarks...

Chocolat

Chocolat
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Gers
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Vianne, a witch of sorts and her daughter move to provincial France. It is the story of her determination to set up and make a success of a chocolate shop in face of glaring opposition from the local priest....

Murder in Montmartre

Murder in Montmartre
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimée’s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure’s...

Not Quite Nice

Not Quite Nice
  • Author(s): Celia Imrie
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. Quite Nice With its...

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