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A Chateau for Sale

A Chateau for Sale
  • Author(s): Carrie Parker
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in South West France. Kate is living an idyllic life in the Kent countryside until she falls in love with her new neighbour, Nick. She still loves her husband, Alastair, and she doesn’t want to choose. Inevitably, she...

A Chateau under Siege

A Chateau under Siege
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 16 in the Dordogne Mystery series. France’s favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions, the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and...

A Christmas in the Alps

A Christmas in the Alps
  • Author(s): Melody Carlson
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Novella, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her...

A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches
  • Author(s): Deborah Harkness
  • Location(s): Oxford, Limousin, Madison (NY), New Orleans, St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in...

A Forget-Me-Not Summer

A Forget-Me-Not Summer
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

It’s taken years, but Natasha Brown’s life is finally on track. Running a florists in the quaint village of Willowbrook, she’s put her short-lived marriage to Luc Duval far behind her. That is, until he unexpectedly walks through her...

A Fortnight is not Enough

A Fortnight is not Enough
  • Author(s): Rosemary Goodacre
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Have you ever enjoyed a holiday so much you could not bear to go home? When 18 year old Imogen from London meets Jules in the south of France she is painting a view of the river and finds...

A French Affair

A French Affair
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House – an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside. Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first...

A House at the End of the Track

A House at the End of the Track
  • Author(s): Michelle Lawson
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Intrigued by the endless accounts of English incomers `living the dream’ in France, Michelle Lawson set out to find out what it’s all about beneath that romantic veneer. Travelling around the Ariege Pyrenees she captured stories and observed the...

A House in Brittany

A House in Brittany
  • Author(s): Jill Fitzgerald-O'Connor
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fascinating, and enlightening, account of a franco-phone British resident in the real France, outside the ex-pat bubble. Unlike many British seeking their dream home in France, the writer left the UK as a result of the precarity of...

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Comedian, mod and professional grump Ian Moore has had enough. Tired of being unable to park anywhere near his cramped house in a noisy town he doesn’t like, he hatches a plan to move his wife and young son...

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