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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,...

Scent of Triumph

Scent of Triumph
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Grasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...

Season of Light

Season of Light
  • Author(s): Katharine McMahon
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1700s (French Revolution)

It’s the summer of 1788 and Paris is ablaze with revolutionary ideas. Swept along in the excitement is Asa Ardleigh, a 19-year-old Englishwoman visiting the city with her newly-married sister, Philippa. At the literary salon of Madame de Genlis...

Seven Ages of Paris

Seven Ages of Paris
  • Author(s): Alistair Horne
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1300s to Modern

In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the...

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