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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...

Five Days in Provence

Five Days in Provence
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five lifelong friends gather at a picturesque farmhouse nestled amidst the lavender fields to celebrate a birthday, but beneath the sun-drenched skies of Provence, their dream escape will end in murder. Steph spent months planning her perfect birthday celebration....

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...

For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse
  • Author(s): Lauren North
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect pre-wedding getaway. The perfect murder. The perfect trap… Jake and I planned our romantic trip to the south of France to unwind from all the stress of organising our wedding and enjoy some blissful, sun-soaked days just...

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...

Happily Never After

Happily Never After
  • Author(s): Phoebe MacLeod
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s looking for writing inspiration, but she may just find Mr Right… Laura Spalding has life all worked out: a flourishing writing career, a lovely home, a cute dog, and a handsome boyfriend Angus. Then, plot twist, Angus walks...

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...

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...

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