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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...

A Long Night In Paris

A Long Night In Paris
  • Author(s): Dov Alfon
  • Location(s): Paris, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When an Israeli tech entrepreneur disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200’s...

A Love Letter to Paris

A Love Letter to Paris
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The pretty little streets of Montmartre are abuzz with a rumour. Apparently a mystery matchmaker, known only as ‘Paris Cupid’, has somehow helped the city’s most famous bachelor find love. But old-fashioned romantic Lilou is staying very quiet. She’d...

A Maid of Kent

A Maid of Kent
  • Author(s): Jan Evans
  • Location(s): Argentina, The Falkland Islands, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Sophie, a successful interior designer, finds herself falling for Nick, a naval pilot, but is he too scarred by events he witnessed in the Falkland Islands? Is the sensitive and down to earth Greg, a friend since childhood, the...

A Murder in Paris

A Murder in Paris
  • Author(s): Matthew Blake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O. Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London....

A Nice Cup of Tea

A Nice Cup of Tea
  • Author(s): Celia Imrie
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque,...

A Northern Light in Provence

A Northern Light in Provence
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Birkelund
  • Location(s): Greenland, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village. Ilse Erlund is a translator who...

A Paris Fairy Tale

A Paris Fairy Tale
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is Paris the city of happily ever afters? Workaholic art historian Aurora Black doesn’t have time for fairy tales or Prince Charmings, even in the most romantic city in the world. She has recently been hired by a Parisian...

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