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I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)

I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
  • Author(s): Mark Greenside
  • 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...

The Portrain

The Portrain
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • 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...

A Breath of French Air

A Breath of French Air
  • Author(s): H E Bates
  • 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...

Assignment in Brittany

Assignment in Brittany
  • Author(s): Helen Macinnes
  • 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...

Coastliners

Coastliners
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • 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...

Death in Brittany

Death in Brittany
  • Author(s): Jean-Luc Bannalec
  • 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...

Journey

Journey
  • Author(s): Liz Garnett
  • 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

Legends and Romances of Brittany
  • Author(s): Lewis Spence
  • 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,...

Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Losing the Light

Losing the Light
  • Author(s): Andrea Dunlop
  • Location(s): France, Nantes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smart, obsessive debut novel about a young woman studying abroad who becomes caught up in a seductive French world and a complex web of love and lust. When thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her...

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