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Perfume

Perfume
  • Author(s): Patrick Suskind
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other...

The Black Notebook

The Black Notebook
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

Set in Montparnasse, Paris. A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty years previously. Set in the...

The Chalet

The Chalet
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1998

‘Pure adrenaline’ ERIN KELLY ‘I was gripped from start to finish’ CASS GREEN French Alps, 1998 Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns. 20 years later Four people connected to the missing man find themselves...

The Medici Mirror

The Medici Mirror
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern and 16th Century

A hidden room When architect Johnny Carter is asked to redesign a long-abandoned Victorian shoe factory, he discovers a hidden room deep in the basement. A dark, sinister room, which contains a sixteenth-century Venetian mirror. A love in danger...

The Night Rainbow

The Night Rainbow
  • Author(s): Claire King
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of...

The Silent Hours

The Silent Hours
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • Location(s): Oradour-sur-Glane
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s looking back to WW2

A story of love and loss inspired by heartrending true events in the Unoccupied Zone of wartime France An epic, sweeping tale set in wartime France, The Silent Hours follows three people whose lives are bound together, before war...

The Tapestry of Love

The Tapestry of Love
  • Author(s): Rosy Thornton
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to...

Trespass

Trespass
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A tale of siblings, territory and revenge set in the South of France,the British and the French, a dark tale with tragic events. It is also about relationships

Wild Dog

Wild Dog
  • Author(s): Serge Joncour
  • Location(s): Lot-et-Garonne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914/15 and 2017

Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life. In this remote corner of the world, there is...

Wish you were here

Wish you were here
  • Author(s): Catherine Alliott
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines...

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