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Mrs Hemingway

Mrs Hemingway
  • Author(s): Naomi Wood
  • Location(s): Antibes, Cuba (Republic of), World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are...

Not Quite Nice

Not Quite Nice
  • Author(s): Celia Imrie
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. Quite Nice With its...

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 (Porto), 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...

High Season

High Season
  • Author(s): Katie Bishop
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

In the heat of summer, the past can become hazy. . . For twenty years, Nina Drayton has told herself that she must have seen her sister, Tamara, being murdered by the family babysitter – Josie Jackson. That she...

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...

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