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A Piano in the Pyrenees

A Piano in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Tony Hawks
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The French Pyrenees become Hawks’ new new home and as he tries to settle in, he recounts many of his adventures with the native folk, the struggles trying to get things done – all with insight and humour.

A Year in the Merde

A Year in the Merde
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The essence of the book lies just under the surface – an accurate portrayal of an Englishmen delving into the French system and all that involves. Full of humour and wry observations.

About Uncle

About Uncle
  • Author(s): Jordan Stump (Translator), Rebecca Gisler
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata. At an age when she’d rather...

After the Crash

After the Crash
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s/1990s

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

Alex

Alex
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is...

Behind the Blue Shutters

Behind the Blue Shutters
  • Author(s): Brian Doswell
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Provence remains a region where time stands still among the vineyards and olive groves that nestle on slopes unchanged since the earth was formed. On its glittering Mediterranean coast, the sun drenched Cote d’Azur attracts the unlimited wealth of...

Bordeaux Housewives

Bordeaux Housewives
  • Author(s): Daisy Waugh
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bordeaux Housewives is a romantic comedy combining a heady mix of sunshine, sex, Sancerre and secrets. When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious countryside of France they have no idea just...

Breaking Point

Breaking Point
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread – his resignation letter parked in his superior’s desk draw...

Chalet Boy

Chalet Boy
  • Author(s): Andy Smith
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

How hard can it be? Serving a few croissants, cleaning a few bedrooms, cooking some easy meals, and then spending the rest of your time snowboarding and getting drunk. Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? Well Andy Smith thought the...

Croissants and Jam

Croissants and Jam
  • Author(s): Lynda Renham
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Annabel Lewis (Bels) has two days to get to her wedding in Rome but her journey is beset with one disaster after another as fate takes its turn. Will the stranger she meets on the way get her to...

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