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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...

The House I Loved

The House I Loved
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the...

The House in France: A Memoir

The House in France: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Gully Wells
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (looking back)

In 2009, six years after her mother’s death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother – the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): France, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a...

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