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The Ingredients of Love

The Ingredients of Love
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The day begins like any other Saturday for beautiful Parisian restaurateur Aurélie Bredin, until she wakes up to find her apartment empty – her boyfriend gone off with another woman. Heartbroken, Aurélie walks the streets of Paris in the...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Ladies’ Paradise

The Ladies’ Paradise
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification. The Ladies’Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the...

The Lantern

The Lantern
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to purchase Les Genevriers, an abandoned house in a rural hamlet in the south of France. As the beautiful Provence summer turns to autumn, Eve finds...

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris
  • Author(s): Lynn Sheene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Claire is living a privliged life of a socialite in Manhattan, married to Russell, lover of Laurent. Russell is a German sympathiser and after revelations, Claire flees to Paris and finds herself part of the Resistance Movement.

The Last Van Gogh

The Last Van Gogh
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Auvers
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

This is the story of Van Gogh in the last couple of months of his life, which he spent in Auvers, under the treatment of Dr Gachet, physician with questionable ethics. Marguerite is his daughter, who is inexorably drawn...

The Light Behind the Window

The Light Behind the Window
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This novel is the same book as The Lavender Garden The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world...

The Luberon Garden

The Luberon Garden
  • Author(s): Alex Dingwall-Main
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Alex Dingwall-Main left London with his wife and dog nine years ago for the Luberon region of the South of France. A landscape gardener of international renown he was in search of a challenge – a new climate, a...

The Luckiest Woman Ever (Molly Sutton 2)

The Luckiest Woman Ever (Molly Sutton 2)
  • Author(s): Nell Goddin
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Another pastry, another dead body…. Things have started to look up for Molly Sutton. Her new life in the French village of Castillac isn’t as peaceful as she expected it to be, but maybe that could be a good...

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): Paris, Tahiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...

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