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- Location(s): Avignon, Carcassone, Crowland, Narbonne, Rocamadour
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th Century
Corruption, sex, racial hatred and the clash of faiths. Welcome to southern France in the 14th century. Join Nicholas, a young monk from the wild and remote Lincolnshire fens, as he takes a roller-coaster road trip through the medieval...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When her post office burns down, postmistress Veronique starts lobbying for its replacement. But her fellow residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees are too preoccupied to rally to her cause. Mayor Serge Papon, overwhelmed...
- Location(s): Hérault
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern (looking back)
In 2009, six years after her mother’s death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother – the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s / Contemporary
Diamond detective, Jemima Fox is tasked with hunting down the priceless Vogel Vanderpless diamonds that were stolen in The Diamond Connection by her nemesis Petrina Lindberg. She finds herself caught between searching for half-a-century-year-old stolen jewels and catching a...
- Location(s): Le Cannet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
The third episode of a bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM,… “The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras...
- Location(s): Le Cannet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d’Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers. Beyond them,...
The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Elle Littlewood can barely believe her luck when her producer tells her about the chance to get her hands on a dilapidated chateau in Aix-En-Provence, France for a rock bottom price. It seems too good to be true, but...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Picasso to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill to sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. The glorious strip of Mediterranean beach stretching from Marseilles to Monaco still attracts writers, artists, film stars, and scoundrels. Betcherman’s rich account will delight tourists and armchair...
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