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- Location(s): Îles d'Hyères
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. As Fawles’ novels continue to captivate...
- Location(s): Antibes, France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise...
- Location(s): Nice, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The story of a British Foreign Office official, who visits a schoolfriend – now living in the South of France. It has been a suspicion that the friend was not altogether clean whilst work for the Government, so is...
- Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...
- Location(s): Zutphen, Vaucluse
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982 and modern
During the summer of 1982, six friends–five boys, one girl–climb the legendary Mont Ventoux on their bicycles. A tragic accident claims the life of one of them, the promising poet Peter. Thirty years later, the others find themselves travelling...
- Location(s): Antibes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and...
- Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
It is July, 1994 and Joe Jacobs, who is well known poet, his war reporter wife Isabel, and their 14 year old daughter are renting a holiday villa near Nice, accompanied by their friends Laura and Mitchell. Part into...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The French Pyrenees become Hawks’ new new home and as he tries to settle in, he recounts many of his adventures with the native folk, the struggles trying to get things done – all with insight and humour.
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Crime
- Era(s): Mid 1990s
Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris’s identity has been stolen and their life savings – all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance...
- Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....
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