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Imogen

Imogen
  • Author(s): Jilly Cooper
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelation – and...

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette
  • Author(s): Marcel Pagnol
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C’est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s’installe à la ferme, des Romarins, on ne. lui parle pas de la source cachée. Ce qui facilite les manoeuvres des Soubeyran,...

Katharine’s Wish

Katharine’s Wish
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau, Italy, London, Switzerland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In her new novel, Linda Lappin (author of THE ETRUSCAN) explores the final years in the life of short story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton Murry against the...

Let Me Tell You About The Man I knew

Let Me Tell You About The Man I knew
  • Author(s): Susan Fletcher
  • Location(s): Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1880s

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains among wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and...

Love, Lies, and Café au Lait

Love, Lies, and Café au Lait
  • Author(s): Lynn Forth
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Nice
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

When Annie Roberts has the chance to escape rainy Lancashire for the glamour of sunny Nice, it seems like a dream come true, even if it does involve dog-sitting a pampered pooch for the winter. But, once in France,...

Marseille

Marseille
  • Author(s): Angela Wren
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Massif Central
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A spate of abductions and subsequent deaths in nearby départements have Investigator, Jacques Forêt, perplexed. Returning from extended leave to the news of a local kidnapping, Jacques is on the case immediately. And this time it’s personal. But the...

Marseille Noir

Marseille Noir
  • Author(s): Cedric Fabre
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Marseille provides magnificent material for writing. For a long time, when it still had its eye on the sea, it was in fact a veritable ‘open city’ for writers on shore leave. It welcomed the greatest globe-trotting writers in...

Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

Murder in Aix

Murder in Aix
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Life is good when you’re a thirty-something expat living in an area of Provence where people would kill to live. And do. When Maggie’s best friend is arrested for murder Maggie is determined to find the real culprit. Trouble...

Murder in Cannes

Murder in Cannes
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Summer on the Côte d’Azur means tan bodies, wide beaches and glamorous nightclubs throbbing with vitality from the rich and beautiful. So when Maggie Newberry arranges to meet an old boyfriend at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes it’s...

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