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Double Blind

Double Blind
  • Author(s): Edward St Aubyn
  • Location(s): England, Antibes, Big Sur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur and a re-wilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics...

Drawing Lessons

Drawing Lessons
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of the Love in Provence series returns to the South of France with a poignant portrait of a woman who must learn how to create a new life for herself… Sixty-two-year-old Arianna arrives in the South of...

Encore Provence

Encore Provence
  • Author(s): Peter Mayle
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Further memoires of Peter Mayle in Provence.

Escape to the Riviera

Escape to the Riviera
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

**Lose yourself in the south of France this summer, in this fabulously feel-good beach read!** Carrie Hayes has a job she enjoys and a perfectly nice boyfriend. She’s sorted. Isn’t she? But Carrie’s life wasn’t always like this. As...

Farewell Dinner for a Spy

Farewell Dinner for a Spy
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Laos, London
  • Genre(s): Spy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a ‘double-dipper’ the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor. Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending...

Footsteps

Footsteps
  • Author(s): Richard Holmes
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1985 looking back

In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and...

Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil

Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
  • Author(s): Jean-Claude Izzo, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir–the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, author...

Going Big or Small

Going Big or Small
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Berlin, Naples, Sicily, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

“Happy, sad and all emotions!” A Man Called Ove meets Thelma and Louise. Dull and predictable English retiree, Frank, gets more adventure than he bargained for when he sets off on a road trip across 1980s Europe hoping to...

Heatwave

Heatwave
  • Author(s): Victor Jestin
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leonard is an outsider, a seventeen-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers,...

I Promise You This

I Promise You This
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suddenly single after twenty-two years of marriage, the calm of Katherine Price’s midlife has turned upside down. Seeking to find her true self, she took a chance on starting over. A year later, she is certain of this: she’s...

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