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The Winner Stands Alone

The Winner Stands Alone
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman....

There’s Something About St Tropez

There’s Something About St Tropez
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sunny Alvarez’s life is looking decidedly bleak. For what seems like the umpteenth time, her perennial fiance, TV celebrity detective Mac Reilly, has postponed their wedding in favor of a demanding case. Tired of playing second banana to Mac’s...

A Nice Cup of Tea

A Nice Cup of Tea
  • Author(s): Celia Imrie
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque,...

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Corsica, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The Love in Provence characters are celebrating a glorious spring on the Côte d’Azur. There are sweet-smelling blossoms, buds bursting into bloom, explosions of golden mimosa, dazzling sunshine, a shimmering sea … and a worrying disappearance! A hidden past...

A Summer on the Riviera

A Summer on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Rachel Barnett
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They’re from different worlds, but for one summer their lives will suddenly collide… Bella Mason always dreamed of a life beyond her small town but never had the opportunity – until now. When she lands a job as chief...

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)
  • Author(s): Carole Bumpus
  • Location(s): Provence, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Fans of Peter Mayle and Janine Marsh will enjoy this exploration of medieval villages, cultures, and recipes of France’s Provence. This travelogue is Book 4 in the author’s best-selling series, which has won the IPPY gold medal for Best...

Akin

Akin
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy,...

All That Life Can Afford

All That Life Can Afford
  • Author(s): Emily Everett
  • Location(s): London, St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love...

Along the Infinite Sea

Along the Infinite Sea
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Florida, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/1930s

Decadent and evocative storytelling at its very best., by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, Beatriz Williams 1966, Florida Pepper Schuyler is the kind of woman society loves and loves to talk about – a dazzling being who men watch across...

Background for Love

Background for Love
  • Author(s): Helen Wolff
  • Location(s): St Tropez (Saint-Tropez), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Autofiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France written by famed publisher Helen Wolff, based on her early life with Kurt Wolff In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape...

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