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The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel

The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel
  • Author(s): Sarah Steele
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1942

France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied...

The Secret Life of Writers

The Secret Life of Writers
  • Author(s): Guillaume Musso
  • Location(s): Îles d'Hyères
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. As Fawles’ novels continue to captivate...

The Silk Romance

The Silk Romance
  • Author(s): Helena Fairfax
  • Location(s): Lyon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jean-Luc Olivier is a devastatingly handsome racing-driver with the world before him. Sophie Challoner is a penniless student, whose face is unknown beyond her own rundown estate in London. The night they spend together in Paris seems to Sophie...

The Sisters of Versailles

The Sisters of Versailles
  • Author(s): Sally Christie
  • Location(s): Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

VERSAILLES A sumptuous and sensual tale of power, romance, family, and betrayal centered around four sisters and one King. Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy...

The Skipper’s Child

The Skipper’s Child
  • Author(s): Valerie Poore
  • Location(s): Belgium, France, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1960s

Arie Kornet hates school holidays on his family’s barge, the Rival, which is home to Arie, his two sisters, his father, and his deaf mother. But because his father is a commercial skipper, all they do is travel from...

The Spy Who Inspired Me

The Spy Who Inspired Me
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

For legal reasons, The Spy Who Inspired Me does not mention J*mes B*nd. Which is a shame, because it is a comedy based on the idea that I*n Fl*ming’s famously macho spy might have been inspired by a woman....

The Suitors

The Suitors
  • Author(s): Cecile David-Weill
  • Location(s): Antibes, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise...

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterpiece, post World war 1: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who travel from the wild nightlife of Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain, in the company of a group of expatriates – moral dissolution, unrequited...

The Sweet Life in Paris

The Sweet Life in Paris
  • Author(s): David Lebovitz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2000s

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to...

The Twisted Vine

The Twisted Vine
  • Author(s): Alex Martin
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Every journey is an adventure, especially one into the unknown. The shocking discovery of her lover with someone else, propels Roxanne into escaping to France, and seeking work as a grape-picker. She’s never been abroad before or travelled alone....

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