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The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands, Norway, The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was...

And the Show Went On

And the Show Went On
  • Author(s): Alan Riding
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In June 1940, Paris fell to the Nazis who made the world’s cultural capital their favourite entertainment ground. Music halls and cabarets thrived during the occupation, providing plenty of work for actors, singers and musicians – except for Jews....

Her Mother’s Secret

Her Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sauzon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland – the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany – afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears...

Loving Modigliani

Loving Modigliani
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Montparnasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Mostly 20th century

Linda Lappin’s new novel examines the real and imagined aftermaths of the 1920 death of the artist Jeanne Hébuterne, lover and wife of the painter, Amadeo Modigliani. An artist in her own right, Hébuterne died in a fall from...

The House at Zaronza

The House at Zaronza
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Two women divided by a century. A tragic love story buried for four generations. A quest to unravel the past. Corsica 2010 The death of Rachel’s mother leaves unsolved questions about her ancestors. Will Rachel find the answers she desperately...

The Little Paris Bookshop

The Little Paris Bookshop
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Era(s): Modern

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a ‘literary apothecary’, for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only...

All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See
  • Author(s): Anthony Doerr
  • Location(s): St Malo, Brittany, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War...

A Month in Provence

A Month in Provence
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven’t been easy. She’s had to raise her two daughters alone and she’s so proud to see...

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): The Latin Quarter (5/6 ème)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced. In the world of letters it...

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

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