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Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Fictional Lansquenet, in south-west France, is once again the setting for this novel, no. 3 in the Chocolat series. Vianne Rocher receives an unexpected letter from her old friend Armande Voizin, asking her to return to Lansquenet,so Vianne leaves...

Picnic in Provence

Picnic in Provence
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bard
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

When Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up the spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris, they thought they had found their perfect home. But life had other ideas. Falling in love with a quirky...

Pure

Pure
  • Author(s): Andrew Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1780s

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery Les Innocents in Les Halles in 1785 is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer...

Rendezvous in Cannes

Rendezvous in Cannes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the parties and the champagne at the glitzy, glamorous Cannes Film Festival, two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas. Will Anna, newly in love with Leo, be able to reconcile her present-day happiness with...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

Rodin’s Lover

Rodin’s Lover
  • Author(s): Heather Webb
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

A mesmerizing tale of art and passion in Belle Epoque France As a woman, aspiring sculptor Camille Claudel has plenty of critics, especially her ultra-traditional mother.But when Auguste Rodin makes Camille his apprentice and his muse their passion inspires...

Rotes Gold

Rotes Gold
  • Author(s): Tom Hillenbrand
  • Location(s): Luxembourg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

“Tom Hillenbrand regt genussvoll den Appetit der Krimileser an.” Die Welt. Seit der Luxemburger Koch Xavier Kieffer mit Frankreichs berühmtester Gastrokritikerin liiert ist, wird er zu den exklusivsten Events eingeladen. Doch das edle Dinner beim Pariser Bürgermeister endet bereits...

Sarah’s Key

Sarah’s Key
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s, Modern

Two stories intertwine: the first, that of Sarah, a 10 yr old girl who experiences the horrific round up of Jews in 1942 in Paris: the second, Julia Jarmond researches the history of Sarah and her family.

Savages: The Wedding (#1 The Saint-Étienne Quartet)

Savages: The Wedding (#1 The Saint-Étienne Quartet)
  • Author(s): Sabri Louatah
  • Location(s): Paris, Saint-Étienne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A Saturday in May. Paris. It’s the eve of the French presidential elections – ‘The Election of the Century’ say the newspaper headlines – and Chaouch, the nation’s first Arab candidate, has victory in his sights. It has been...

Scent

Scent
  • Author(s): Isabel Costello
  • Location(s): Provence, Paris, The Latin Quarter (5/6 ème)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1992

When Clementine and Edouard’s last child leaves home, the cracks in their marriage become impossible to ignore. Her work as a perfumer is no longer providing solace and her sense of self is withering. Then, her former lover resurfaces,...

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