Filter:
- 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...
- Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other...
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
- 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...
At Home in the Pays d’Oc: The story of two accidental expatriates
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
The small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees has been thrown into turmoil by the revelation that the Auberge des Deux Vallées has been bought by an English couple and not by the Mayor’s brother-in-law as had been...
Refine Location
Locations in The South of France (Le Midi)
Please wait...
