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I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
- Location(s): Finistere
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Set on the bleak and windy island of Houat near the coast of Brittany, The Portrait describes the retreat into isolation of the painter Henry MacAlpine, who has performed a Gauguin-like cutting off of his previous life, leaving a...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The Larkins (of The Darling Buds of May – this is the sequel) decide to take a family holiday in Brittany. It is fair to say there is more than a bit of a culture clash, and as usual...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
A fascinating, and enlightening, account of a franco-phone British resident in the real France, outside the ex-pat bubble. Unlike many British seeking their dream home in France, the writer left the UK as a result of the precarity of...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
- Era(s): 1940
OCCUPIED BRITTANY, 1940… Hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago he had joked with the red-haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate. Three hours ago he had stood on English earth. Three...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities have fought for control of the island’s only beach. When Mado returns home ot her village...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dead on the Dolmen, the first novel featuring Oscar Tremont, will have you wondering whether the Ankou really is riding forth across the land of magic and mystery that is Brittany, or is it an elaborate and macabre joke...
- Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Artist Aggie is running out of money and ideas for a new style of art. There is only one solution. Aggie and her 16-year-old son, Miles, head off to France on a road trip. For Aggie, it is a...
Legends and Romances of Brittany
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Folklore
- Era(s): N/A
Noted folklorist’s rich compilation of stories includes fairies, sprites and demons, tales of the black arts, Arthurian romances, Breton lays of Marie de France, stories of the saints of Brittany and more. Also, background on the land, people, costumes,...
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