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I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)

I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
  • Author(s): Mark Greenside
  • Location(s): Finistere
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside...

Invasion (10)

Invasion (10)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Napoleon’s forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd’s ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English coast. His honour restored after temporary disgrace in the Channel Islands, and reunited with his ship Teazer,...

J’adore Paris

J’adore Paris
  • Author(s): Isabelle LaFleche
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When chic Parisian lawyer Catherine Lambert lands her dream job as intellectual property director for Christian Dior, she is on top of the world. She’s prepared to embark on the ride of her life in the world of fashion,...

Je t’aime, me neither

Je t’aime, me neither
  • Author(s): April Lily Heise
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Is Paris really the eternal City of Love? Dumped suddenly by her Parisian boyfriend, sultry expat Lily is left wondering if je t’aime still exists. Instead of crying into her glass of wine, she decides to heal her bruised...

Judith Paris

Judith Paris
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): Paris, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

This is the second in the Herries Chronicles. Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole’s most delightful heroine. Daughter of Frances Herries...

Labyrinth

Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1209, 2005

When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons at an archaeological site in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. But it’s not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy: there’s...

Le Divorce

Le Divorce
  • Author(s): Diane Johnson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister’s French husband (‘the frog prince’) has just walked...

Liberty Silk

Liberty Silk
  • Author(s): Kate Beaufoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965

One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...

Maestra

Maestra
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....

Magic Sometimes Happens

Magic Sometimes Happens
  • Author(s): Margaret James
  • Location(s): Bath, Minnesota, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance

Passport to love London-based PR and promotions consultant Rosie Denham has just spent a year in Paris where she’s tried but failed to fall in love. She’s also made a big mistake and can’t forgive herself. American IT professor...

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