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The Dream of Scipio

The Dream of Scipio
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Various

Set in Provence at three crucial moments of Western civilisation (the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Second World War in the 20th), Pears presents the...

The Dress Thief

The Dress Thief
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Alix Gower has a dream: to join the ranks of Coco Chanel to become a designer in the high-stakes world of Parisian haute couture. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs...

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Birkelund
  • Location(s): Paris, Senlis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered...

The Dying Season

The Dying Season
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Dordogne town of St Denis may be picturesque and sleepy, but it has more than its fair share of mysteries, as Bruno, chef de police, knows all too well. But when Bruno is invited to the 90th birthday...

The English Pilgrim

The English Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Martin Blake
  • Location(s): Avignon, Carcassone, Crowland, Narbonne, Rocamadour
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

Corruption, sex, racial hatred and the clash of faiths. Welcome to southern France in the 14th century. Join Nicholas, a young monk from the wild and remote Lincolnshire fens, as he takes a roller-coaster road trip through the medieval...

The French Postmistress

The French Postmistress
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When her post office burns down, postmistress Veronique starts lobbying for its replacement. But her fellow residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees are too preoccupied to rally to her cause. Mayor Serge Papon, overwhelmed...

The girl who fell from the Sky

The girl who fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Also known as Trapeze. Marian Sutro is a young woman recruited by the British Intelligence Service to go to occupied France and work with the resistance there and carry out a particular mission – essentially to encourage her first...

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris
  • Author(s): David McCullough
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1830-1900

The Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans–many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe–migrated to Paris. McCullough shows...

The Green Shore

The Green Shore
  • Author(s): Natalie Bakopoulos
  • Location(s): Greece, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

This is a very vivid picture vivid picture of Greece, in part the one of white washed walls and hot pine needles, the sea…. but there is also more detailof the relationships and what was going on in the...

The Holiday

The Holiday
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Hérault
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the...

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