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The Villa Golitsyn

The Villa Golitsyn
  • Author(s): Piers Paul Read
  • Location(s): Nice, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The story of a British Foreign Office official, who visits a schoolfriend – now living in the South of France. It has been a suspicion that the friend was not altogether clean whilst work for the Government, so is...

Villa America

Villa America
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and...

Swimming Home

Swimming Home
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is July, 1994 and Joe Jacobs, who is well known poet, his war reporter wife Isabel, and their 14 year old daughter are renting a holiday villa near Nice, accompanied by their friends Laura and Mitchell. Part into...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Perfume from Provence

Perfume from Provence
  • Author(s): Lady Fortescue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

The original story of falling for France, Perfume from Provence was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when...

The Hotel Riviera

The Hotel Riviera
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany Box, and you’ll get the feel of my little hotel. It’s a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for...

The Olive Farm

The Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet, Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind’s eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly...

The Riviera House Swap

The Riviera House Swap
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She’s always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex....

The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club

The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club
  • Author(s): Joan Collins
  • Location(s): St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Contessa Carlotta di Ponti, stunningly beautiful and filthy rich, has finally escaped her abusive marriage and is looking to find true love in St. Tropez. The party season kicks off with a spectacular bash at billionaire Harry Silver’s palatial...

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