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Summer in Provence

Summer in Provence
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When married couple Fern and Aiden have a windfall, their reactions could not be more different. While Fern is content to pay off their mortgage and build a nest egg before starting a family, her husband is set on...

Summer in San Remo

Summer in San Remo
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bath, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anything could happen when you spend summer in San Remo … Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she’s ever handled she suddenly finds herself...

Summer of Reckoning

Summer of Reckoning
  • Author(s): Marion Brunet
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the prestigious French mystery prize 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature policière. A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a touristic French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas. For those who live there year-round, it often...

Summer on the French Riviera

Summer on the French Riviera
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood home, Villa Espoir in the South of France ready to embrace fresh experiences with friends new and old and to heal some deep family scars. Recently widowed Harriet Rogers,...

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard
  • Author(s): Jane Dunning
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary/1940s/WW2 in southern France

Sunshine and Shadows at the Vineyard – the dramatic sequel to Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez and Stolen Summer Join Richard and Helen and the Ferguson family on the French Riviera as another long, hot summer begins with worries...

Super-Cannes

Super-Cannes
  • Author(s): J G Ballard
  • Location(s): Provence

Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern “Dream Palace” of “a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs”: its aim, “to turn Provence into Europe’s silicon valley”. Paul...

Talk to the Hand Model: A Guido la Vespa Romance in France

Talk to the Hand Model: A Guido la Vespa Romance in France
  • Author(s): Veronica Bell
  • Location(s): Avignon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hazel, a Canadian Ph.D candidate in Avignon, agrees to marry a top hand model, though she feels little passion for him. She is over 35 and feels her best chances at true love are behind her…until she meets a...

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Nice, Rome, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar
  • Author(s): Aimee Alexander
  • Location(s): Ireland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, but she soon realises he possesses a charm that is impossible to resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, level-headed career girl Lucy is seriously considering...

The Case of the Missing Madonna

The Case of the Missing Madonna
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Cannes, Eze, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating...

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