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A Girl Called Flotsam

A Girl Called Flotsam
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Joanne Harris and William Boyd. Beatrice Palmentier is 36, an award-winning director. And discontent. She is about to make a documentary on world-famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg, when the discovery of a skull on the...

A Grave in the Woods

A Grave in the Woods
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No., 17 in the Dordogne Mysteries The long arm of history reaches into the present in Bruno’s latest case when three sets of bones are discovered, buried deep in the woods outside the Dordogne town of St Denis. It...

A Man’s Head

A Man’s Head
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret’s unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges...

A Paris Apartment

A Paris Apartment
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to the 1890s

When April Vogt’s boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby’s continental furniture specialist does not hear the words “dust” or “rats” or “shuttered for seventy years.” She hears Paris. She hears...

A Paris Haunting

A Paris Haunting
  • Author(s): Janet Doolaege
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Why is the ghost of a distressed woman running through a corridor in the Paris metro? Kay, a translator, finds herself being drawn into a puzzling web involving two gifted musicians, a maker of beautiful jewellery and a morose...

A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis

A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis
  • Author(s): Irene Woodbury
  • Location(s): France, Las Vegas, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Quirky jobs, wacky friends, hot crushes, and an unraveling marriage are all part of this darkly funny novel describing 45 year-old newlywed Wendy Sinclair’s life in Las Vegas after she impulsively decides to stay following a bizarre girls’ weekend...

A Son at the Front

A Son at the Front
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

The novel focusses on the painter Compton, in Paris, and opens 30th July 1914. The novel explores family and sexual bonds, the value of art during war and cultural values.

A Spell in Provence

A Spell in Provence
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

After losing her job in England, Amy Carter uses her redundancy payment to start a new life in France, turning Bellefontaine, an overgrown Provençal farmhouse, into a successful hotel. Though she has big plans for her new home, none...

A Tour of the Heart

A Tour of the Heart
  • Author(s): Maribeth Clemente
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world. Told by a proudly-feminine and sophisticated travel writer, an expert in...

A Vintage Affair

A Vintage Affair
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • Location(s): England, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Do fairytale dresses bring fairytale endings? Every dress has a history, so does Phoebe… Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to...

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