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The Escape

The Escape
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is an electrifying thriller of influencers, secrets and lies set in a grand mansion in rural France for fans of Lisa Jewell and Sarah Pearse. THE PERFECT OFFER When struggling influencer couple...

The Montana Stories

The Montana Stories
  • Author(s): Katherine Mansfield
  • Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...

The Parisian’s Return

The Parisian’s Return
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn’t realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village grocery. Parisian-exile Fabian’s welcome goes from bad to worse as his attempts to drag the shop into the...

The Perfect Scent

The Perfect Scent
  • Author(s): Chandler Burr
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Follow the creation in NYC of the scent ‘Lovely’ for Sarah Jessica Parker. And in Paris follow how Hermes sets about creating ‘Un Jardin sur le Nil’ – facts about (170,000 bottles of fragrance are sold in France every...

The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
  • Author(s): Sophie Hardach
  • Location(s): Germany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When...

The Sirens Sang of Murder

The Sirens Sang of Murder
  • Author(s): Sarah Caudwell
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, France, Monte Carlo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir in a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated...

The Woman in the Fifth

The Woman in the Fifth
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. I arrived a few days after Christmas. It was a wet grey morning – the sky the colour of dirty chalk: the...

Thunder on the Right

Thunder on the Right
  • Author(s): Mary Stewart
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Jenny Silver’s trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has...

Weak at the Knees

Weak at the Knees
  • Author(s): Jo Kessel
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death...

Last Train to Istanbul

Last Train to Istanbul
  • Author(s): Ayse Kulin
  • Location(s): Ankara, Berlin, Cairo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court...

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