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The Winter Ghosts

The Winter Ghosts
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

1928 – Frederick Watson crashes his car in a snowstorm in the foothills of the Pyrenees. He believes he hears a woman’s voice: ‘The Winter Ghosts’. He abandons his car and walks down the hillside path to the small...

The Parisian’s Return

The Parisian’s Return
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn’t realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village grocery. Parisian-exile Fabian’s welcome goes from bad to worse as his attempts to drag the shop into the...

Thunder on the Right

Thunder on the Right
  • Author(s): Mary Stewart
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Jenny Silver’s trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has...

A House at the End of the Track

A House at the End of the Track
  • Author(s): Michelle Lawson
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Intrigued by the endless accounts of English incomers `living the dream’ in France, Michelle Lawson set out to find out what it’s all about beneath that romantic veneer. Travelling around the Ariege Pyrenees she captured stories and observed the...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...

A Wedding in the Sun

A Wedding in the Sun
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): France, Spain, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected… Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already...

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
  • Author(s): Eugene Barter
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink

At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge. This is the story of her experiences. Humorous and often self-mocking, always gentle and...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome...

The Frozen Dead

The Frozen Dead
  • Author(s): Bernard Minier
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the...

The Rake and his Honour

The Rake and his Honour
  • Author(s): Beth Elliott
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

1813 Napoleon is on the rampage through France. But some are not willing to sit back and witness the end of the reign of King Louis and the Bourbons. Louise Fauriel comes from a family of talented silversmiths. Recently...

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