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And Only to Deceive

And Only to Deceive
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Emily is married and widowed within the first couple of pages and she comes to realise how little she knew of him. She starts to investigate this leads her into a mystery involving forgeries of Ancient Greek artefacts.

Angel Heart

Angel Heart
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Beaujolais, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Angel Heart is a lavish mix of romance, adventure, and a hint of the supernatural, largely set in France against the turbulent background of Napoleon’s return from Elba. Devonshire, January 1815. Marie-Ange, the young widow of an English officer,...

Another Long Day on the Piste

Another Long Day on the Piste
  • Author(s): Will Randall
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Bill Bryson on the slopes? Mont St Bernard, fictional, is the setting for this heady book on skis. Boozy nights, random Russians and skiing endeavours all contribute to an entertaining and delightful read of life on the slopes. Full...

Another Woman’s Husband

Another Woman’s Husband
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton
  • Era(s): 20th Century

1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal… 1997. Kendall’s romantic break in...

At Home in the Pays d’Oc: The story of two accidental expatriates

At Home in the Pays d’Oc: The story of two accidental expatriates
  • Author(s): Patricia Feinberg Stoner
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

This is the story of how a small brown and white spaniel turned the lives of two English holidaymakers upside down. Patricia and her husband Patrick are spending the summer in their holiday home in the Languedoc village of...

Becoming Josephine

Becoming Josephine
  • Author(s): Heather Webb
  • Location(s): Martinique, Paris
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Rose Tascher is brought up in Martinique. At 15, she is married off to a Parisian aristocrat, who cannot stand her or her provincial ways. She divorces him, the French Revolution comes and her place, as Josephine, consort to...

Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly

Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly
  • Author(s): Belle de Neige
  • Location(s): Les Trois Vallées (The 3 Valleys)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“People pick the most inopportune times to die; when everything is going along swimmingly and you’re feeling that you really have landed with your arse in the butter recently and isn’t life peachy?” Grief, heartbreak, existential crisis. Life has...

Birdsong

Birdsong
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910-1970

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the...

Blackberry Wine

Blackberry Wine
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

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