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A Place of Greater Safety

A Place of Greater Safety
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And...

A Rose Petal Summer

A Rose Petal Summer
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The brand new heart-warming romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country Escape and A Secret Garden. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE…Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s...

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Corsica, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The Love in Provence characters are celebrating a glorious spring on the Côte d’Azur. There are sweet-smelling blossoms, buds bursting into bloom, explosions of golden mimosa, dazzling sunshine, a shimmering sea … and a worrying disappearance! A hidden past...

A Small Cheese in Provence

A Small Cheese in Provence
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cooking with Goat Cheese ‘If I were to currently recommend a cheese book to you, I would choose this one… the photography is beautiful and there is passion in the recipes. It makes a fantastic gift.’ Samantha Milner recipes.com...

A Song of Isolation

A Song of Isolation
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job....

A Springtime to Remember

A Springtime to Remember
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Paris and the Palace of Versailles have always meant a lot to TV producer Lexie. Her grandma Viv spent a year there, but her adventures and memories were never discussed, and Lexie has long wondered why they were a...

A Stranger in Paris

A Stranger in Paris
  • Author(s): Karen Webb
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990

Aberystwyth University, 1986 – and another year of torrential rain. Bad hair days and a rugby-fanatic fiancé are part of her drab existence so who can blame Karen for falling into the arms of a handsome Parisian? Hastening across...

A Summer on the Riviera

A Summer on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Rachel Barnett
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They’re from different worlds, but for one summer their lives will suddenly collide… Bella Mason always dreamed of a life beyond her small town but never had the opportunity – until now. When she lands a job as chief...

A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray

A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray
  • Author(s): Dominique Barbéris, John Cullen (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a Sunday in early September and a woman leaves muggy Paris to visit her sister in the western suburbs of the city. Ville-d’Avray is less than an hour away, but it seems like another world with its secluded...

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s/80s

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