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Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

Scent of Triumph

Scent of Triumph
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Grasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

Songs of Blue and Gold

Songs of Blue and Gold
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Corfu, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island … Melissa’s life...

Sun Damage

Sun Damage
  • Author(s): Sabine Durrant
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. She just needs to escape . . . Nine guests arrive at a remote villa in the south of France. They know each other well. Or think they do. But at...

The Chocolate Rose

The Chocolate Rose
  • Author(s): Laura Florand
  • Location(s): Nice, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Her father’s worst enemy… Top chef Gabriel Delange never forgave his old nemesis Pierre Manon for all the other chef had cost him. One stolen rose… And he most certainly couldn’t stand the sight of his own most famous...

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 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 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...

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