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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...

The Watcher in the Shadows

The Watcher in the Shadows
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Young Adult

A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created… an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old...

The White Company

The White Company
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): England, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle was the best selling book of its time. Set in the mediaeval era, this work presents a time when swordsmen and archers were the best kind of army. From Britain to France...

This is Life

This is Life
  • Author(s): Dan Rhodes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dan Rhodes’s new novel opens with a determined art student, Aurélie Renard, throwing a stone in a crowded Paris neighbourhood in a bid to kick-start her next creative project. She had been planning to produce a straightforward series of...

Tin Man

Tin Man
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...

To Kill a Troubadour

To Kill a Troubadour
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is summer in St Denis and Bruno is busy organising the annual village concert. He’s hired a local Périgord folk group, Les Troubadours, to perform their latest hit ‘A Song for Catalonia’. But when the song unexpectedly goes...

Toute Allure

Toute Allure
  • Author(s): Karen Wheeler
  • Location(s): Poitou-Charentes
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead – to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just like the seventies Flake ad) and several months of...

Treachery in Bordeaux

Treachery in Bordeaux
  • Author(s): Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noel Balen
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Benjamin Cooper and his sidekick Virgile investigate a friend’s barrels of wine, which have been poisoned. Perfect for lovers of wine and a bit of art history, there are clearly more to come in the series.

Vanda

Vanda
  • Author(s): Marion Brunet, Katherine Gregor (translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Marseilles, this is the story of Vanda, a beautiful woman in her thirties, arms covered in tats, skin so dark that some take her for a North African. Devoted to her six-year-old son Now, they live in...

Ventoux

Ventoux
  • Author(s): Bert Wagendorp
  • Location(s): Zutphen, Vaucluse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982 and modern

During the summer of 1982, six friends–five boys, one girl–climb the legendary Mont Ventoux on their bicycles. A tragic accident claims the life of one of them, the promising poet Peter. Thirty years later, the others find themselves travelling...

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