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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...

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
  • Author(s): Jeremy Mercer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris is one of the world’s most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra...

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
  • Author(s): Nancy K Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. “Breathless” is the story of a girl who represents those...

Bright and Deadly Things

Bright and Deadly Things
  • Author(s): Lexie Elliott
  • Location(s): Saint Gervais
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A retreat doesn’t always mean safety… Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running...

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