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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Author(s): Therese Anne Fowler
  • Location(s): France, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th century

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn’t...

Catch Me If You Cannes

Catch Me If You Cannes
  • Author(s): Lisa Dickenson
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The first part in this hilarious four-part romantic comedy, from the author of You Had Me at Merlot and The Twelve Dates of Christmas – winner of the Novelicious Debut of the Year award. Jess has decided it’s time to get out of...

Epiphany Jones

Epiphany Jones
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Cannes, Mexico, Oporto, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who...

House of the Hanged

House of the Hanged
  • Author(s): Mark Mills
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No.1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden. France, 1935: At the poor man’s end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol,...

Jigsaw

Jigsaw
  • Author(s): Sybille Bedford
  • Location(s): Europe, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW1 - WW2

This book describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German chateau for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother...

Marie

Marie
  • Author(s): Madeleine Bourdouxhe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A sensual and joyful story of desire and independence in 1930s Paris. Set among the bustling train stations and narrow rues of 1930s Paris, where the threat of war already hangs in the air, Marie is a hypnotically powerful novel about...

Men Don’t Cry

Men Don’t Cry
  • Author(s): Faïza Guène, Sarah Ardizzone (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, Nice
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That’s the question at the heart of this tender and poignant coming-of-age story from the widely-acclaimed author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow. Born in...

Rendezvous in Cannes

Rendezvous in Cannes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the parties and the champagne at the glitzy, glamorous Cannes Film Festival, two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas. Will Anna, newly in love with Leo, be able to reconcile her present-day happiness with...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

The Chocolate Rose

The Chocolate Rose
  • Author(s): Laura Florand
  • Location(s): Nice, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Her father’s worst enemy… Top chef Gabriel Delange never forgave his old nemesis Pierre Manon for all the other chef had cost him. One stolen rose… And he most certainly couldn’t stand the sight of his own most famous...

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