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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...

A Walk across the Sun

A Walk across the Sun
  • Author(s): Corban Addison
  • Location(s): India, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ahalya Ghai is just seventeen when a tsunami rips through her Indian village. Ahalya and her sister Sita are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent in Chennai, many...

A Week in Paris

A Week in Paris
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s moving forward

A compelling story of war, secrets, family and history that will draw you into the heart of Paris and its troubled past. Paris, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her...

Amandine

Amandine
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1931, WW2

The story opens in Krakow in 1931, as a baby girl is conceived out of wedlock, the byproduct of a foolish heart and a tragic inheritance. The child’s grandmother, a countess, believes that she is protecting her daughter when...

An Appetite for Violets

An Appetite for Violets
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Florence, Lancashire, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Food and Drink, Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have...

An Astronomer in Love

An Astronomer in Love
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain, Louise Rogers Lalaurie (Translator), Megan Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, Pondicherry (Puducherry), The Indian Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Historical
  • Era(s): 2010 (and 1760)

Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain....

An Englishman Aboard

An Englishman Aboard
  • Author(s): Charles Timoney
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the last six months building, he little realises the adventures that lie ahead. Several glasses of champagne later (it is New Year’s Eve), he finds himself betting he...

An Uncertain Place

An Uncertain Place
  • Author(s): Fred Vargas
  • Location(s): France, London, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg that has been translated into English. It starts in London, at Highgate Cemetery where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues, is attending a conference.They chance upon a pile of shoes with severed feet...

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