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Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

After escaping death at the hands of a ruthless murderer while honeymooning in Constantinople (Tears of Pearl), Lady Emily is recuperating from her wounds at her mother-in-law’s estate in Normandy when, while out horseback riding in the countryside, she...

Death and Fromage

Death and Fromage
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Follet Valley Mystery #2 Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town...

Dream of Paris

Dream of Paris
  • Author(s): Paula Martin
  • Location(s): England, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Richards has a dream of going to live and study in Paris, but when Matthew Carlton comes into her life, her dream changes direction. Attraction sparks between them, but Matt’s behaviour is strangely inconsistent. Anna is shocked when...

Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale

Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale
  • Author(s): Anne Weber, Tess Lewis (Translator)
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the...

Faking it in France

Faking it in France
  • Author(s): Karen Bates
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Living semi bankrupt in France wasn’t the dream I’d fantasied about. Homesick and disillusioned, I knew something had to change, but what? It seemed like a good idea at the time. I had seen all those TV programmes. The...

Follow Me!

Follow Me!
  • Author(s): Louise Warman
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Cally Johnson is fleeing an unrequited love affair by swapping her dead-end job and a dreary London winter for a dead-end job and a snowy winter in the French Alps. Hopelessly scatterbrained and disorganised can she find the love...

Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies
  • Author(s): Cynthia Ozick
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...

Fowl Eulogies

Fowl Eulogies
  • Author(s): Daria Chernysheva (Translator), Lucie Rico
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

“In this first novel from French author Rico, a woman’s life and desires swerve wildly after she inherits her mother’s chicken farm. A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence.” ―Kirkus Reviews Upon her mother’s death, Paule Rojas, a...

French Fried

French Fried
  • Author(s): Chris Dolley
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Crime
  • Era(s): Mid 1990s

Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris’s identity has been stolen and their life savings – all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance...

From Paris with Love

From Paris with Love
  • Author(s): Samantha Tonge
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fun-loving Gemma Goodwin knows she should be revelling in her happy-ever-after. Except when her boyfriend Lord Edward popped the question, after a whirlwind romance, although she didn’t say no….she didn’t exactly say yes either! A month-long cookery course in...

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