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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...

Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle

Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle
  • Author(s): H C Carlton
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

the author combines his inside knowledge of fashion with the brilliantly described main characters, with a touch of humour and atmosphere which perfectly evokes Paris of the heady 60s.

How Blue is My Valley

How Blue is My Valley
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme and septic tank. There are hundreds of interesting things you can do in a bath but washing dishes is not one of them, nor what writer Jean Gill had in mind when...

I Heart Paris

I Heart Paris
  • Author(s): Lindsey Kelk
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Angela is in the city of love – but romance is taking a nose-dive… When Angela Clark’s boyfriend Alex suggests a trip to Paris at the same time as hip fashion mag Belle asks her to write a piece,...

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