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Second Harvest

Second Harvest
  • Author(s): Jean Giono
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Panturle lives in the nearly deserted village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. That autumn, Gaubert, the blacksmith, “a little man all mustache, ” had left; and before the winter was out, the well-sinker’s widow had left as well....

The Artisan’s Star

The Artisan’s Star
  • Author(s): Gabriella Contestabile
  • Location(s): Florence, Grasse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Elio Barati’s perfumery shop in Florence marks its entrance with a mosaic star. This shop immerses Elio in the artisanal world he loves, but he harbors a regret. As a young man he created a full-fledged perfume of jasmine,...

The Bleeding

The Bleeding
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec, Paris
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...

The Forgotten Summer

The Forgotten Summer
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1923

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by...

The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1482

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In...

The Joyce Girl

The Joyce Girl
  • Author(s): Annabel Abbs
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1928 Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music, literature and dance. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer, training with some of the world s most...

The Lantern’s Dance

The Lantern’s Dance
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...

The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Since her daughter went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been a woman alone. Her only companion her camera. Since Lizzie disappeared, she has blamed and isolated herself, given up hope. Until, out of the blue,...

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