When newly heartbroken, michelin-starred chef Millie Harper is offered a job overseeing the setup of The Paradise Cookery School she jumps at the opportunity. Leaving London and her memories of heartbreak behind she hops on a plane to the...

It’s never too late for second chances. Liv wants her friends to think she has the perfect life. But honestly? She’s running on empty. Desperate for a break from her needy family, Liv is determined that as she and...

Four life-long friends. One life-changing holiday. On the surface Liv has the perfect life. But honestly? She’s running on empty. Worn out after running around after her needy family, she knows that she needs to make some changes, but...

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard – the dramatic sequel to Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez and Stolen Summer Join Richard and Helen and the Ferguson family on the French Riviera as another long, hot summer begins with worries...

It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of France. At the dinner table, the Blake siblings await him: Lily, his carefree friend from university; Dot, the rebellious younger sister;...

Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern “Dream Palace” of “a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs”: its aim, “to turn Provence into Europe’s silicon valley”. Paul...

What really happened to Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, surfing professional, the “Lord on a Board”? Lee Child said: “I don’t usually read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote with shorts.” When I met Ted, he was a...

Two boys growing up together in a small California town are the best of friends. One conforms to his parents’ wishes and follows a preset path to a career; the other creates his own path, sailing the world, surfing...

Amanda Wilson is all geared up for an exciting gap-year, travelling across Europe. She soon finds her plans thwarted when she is abandoned in France with only a cellarful of Chateau Plonk, a large, orange Space Hopper, and Old...

“Educated, young, no-nonsense bearing, able administrator-these are the equalities that won Sesha the loyalties of the people after three years of rule as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. An allegation that he was the mastermind behind the murder...