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Atonement

Atonement
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dunkirk, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935 onwards

13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the...

Clamped

Clamped
  • Author(s): David Blackwell
  • Location(s): Courchevel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Ben moved to the mountains he did so in the hope that he would find his true self. But he found himself surrounded by people doing their best to hide theirs. Clamped, set in the alpine ski resort...

Irene

Irene
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in...

Light of the Moon

Light of the Moon
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Camargue
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious family legend, one woman is about to discover that to find your way home, sometimes you must travel far away…. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah Connolly...

Sacred Ends (#2 Belle Epoque Trilogy)

Sacred Ends (#2 Belle Epoque Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Lisa Appignanesi
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1890s

Paris, 1890. Comte de Landois has ordered his wife Marguerite to travel from Paris, to join him in the Loire valley. Her journey into the pastoral quiet is shattered by the appearance of a dead man on the railway...

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...

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
  • Author(s): Jérôme Ferrari
  • Location(s): Algiers, Corsica, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The mysterious disappearance of Hayet, the manageress of the village bar, presents a conundrum for its owner, who cannot face a return to the days of late nights, lewd customers and greasy dishwater. A succession of would-be hosts and...

The Tattooist

The Tattooist
  • Author(s): Louise Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a man who will be anything you want. Who will listen attentively to every word you say and intuit everything you don’t. A man willing to explore all the dark corners of your body and your mind. A...

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 17th Century

A historical romance, “The Three Musketeers” tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D’Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King’s Musketeers – Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye...

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
  • Author(s): Anstey Harris
  • Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...

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