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The Perfect Place

The Perfect Place
  • Author(s): Amanda Cassidy
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Elle Littlewood can barely believe her luck when her producer tells her about the chance to get her hands on a dilapidated chateau in Aix-En-Provence, France for a rock bottom price. It seems too good to be true, but...

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera
  • Author(s): Gaston Leroux
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Modern audiences are well acquainted with Gaston Leroux’s infamous Phantom of the Opera, the tale of Erik, a horrifically disfigured man who lives in the underground beneath the Paris Opera House, where his creative genius mingles – and festers...

The Promise of Provence

The Promise of Provence
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

June in Provence is full of promise when Katherine arrives from Canada, eager to feel renewed by her surroundings. Endless rows of lavender prepare to burst into pink and purple blooms. Fields of sunflowers flow in golden waves among...

The Red Brick Cellars: A Tolosa Mystery

The Red Brick Cellars: A Tolosa Mystery
  • Author(s): R W Wallace
  • Location(s): Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murdered mayor. A second body reduced to skeleton and dust. The public display so horrific that the police are baffled. Everyone assumes uninterested heir Louis Saint-Blancat will finally settle down and focus on the politics of Toulouse, France....

The Reinvention of Love

The Reinvention of Love
  • Author(s): Helen Humphreys
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not...

The Rift

The Rift
  • Author(s): Rachel Lynch
  • Location(s): France, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Working for the Royal Military Police, Major Helen Scott is used to rapid change. On a posting to Paris she oversees security for a NATO summit in the city, yet has barely begun before her presence is demanded at...

The Ripening Sun

The Ripening Sun
  • Author(s): Patricia Atkinson
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in...

The Riviera

The Riviera
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The journey is only as good as its end…  It’s been a hard journey, but Lizzie Lambert’s life is a Provençal dream come true. Her business is wildly successful, and with her little boy and the love of her...

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Lita-Rose Betcherman
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Picasso to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill to sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. The glorious strip of Mediterranean beach stretching from Marseilles to Monaco still attracts writers, artists, film stars, and scoundrels. Betcherman’s rich account will delight tourists and armchair...

The School of Mirrors

The School of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th century

During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained...

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