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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Author(s): Ann Radcliffe
  • Location(s): The Appenines, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1950s

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.’ Such is the state...

The Olive Farm

The Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet, Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind’s eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly...

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Montmartre
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to No.12 Rue des Amants A beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of Montmartre. A place of twisting staircases, locked rooms, watchful eyes from every window. A place of murder. One resident is missing. And another...

The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)

The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1800s and Modern

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are...

The Perfume Collector

The Perfume Collector
  • Author(s): Kathleen Tessaro
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE. One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe’s life upside down: ‘Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs...

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted
  • Author(s): Bridget Asher
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Every good love story has another love hiding within it’ Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier...

The Riviera House Swap

The Riviera House Swap
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She’s always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex....

The Sharp Hook of Love

The Sharp Hook of Love
  • Author(s): Sherry Jones
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Among the young women of twelfth-century Paris, Heloise d’Argenteuil stands apart. Extraordinarily educated and quick-witted, she is being groomed by her uncle to become an abbess in the service of God. But with one encounter, her destiny changes forever....

The Silent Land

The Silent Land
  • Author(s): Graham Joyce
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

Jake and Zoe, two people deeply in love are on a skiing holiday in the beautiful village of Saint Bernard en Haut in the French Pyrenees when they are suddenly engulfed in a avalanche. What follows is utterly disconcerting...

The Sleeping Car Murders

The Sleeping Car Murders
  • Author(s): Sébastien Japrisot
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When the night train pulled into Paris, she was dead. And the riddle began . . . A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She...

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