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A Tour of Mont Blanc

A Tour of Mont Blanc
  • Author(s): David Le Vay
  • Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Mont Blanc, or ‘Il Bianco’ as it is sometimes known as in Italy; The White One. It sits, regally, upon pleated glacial folds gathered together around a timeless, grey-rock body, high above the French town of Chamonix, lord of...

A Walk in Paris

A Walk in Paris
  • Author(s): Salvatore Rubbino
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris – the most beautiful city in the world! The most romantic! It’s the perfect place for a girl and her grandad to spend the day. Join them as they explore Paris’s iconic landmarks and experience its culture and...

A War of Flowers

A War of Flowers
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Germany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

British actress, Clara Vine, is in Paris to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mingling in Berlin society and passing snippets of information to her...

A Wedding in the Sun

A Wedding in the Sun
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): France, Spain, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected… Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already...

A Wedding on the Riviera

A Wedding on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bristol, Bath, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A return to the Riviera on the trail of a runaway groom … When out-of-work actor Ryan Calder attends a wedding as the plus-one of successful businesswoman, Nadine Wells, he doesn’t expect to get in a scuffle with the...

A Whale in Paris

A Whale in Paris
  • Author(s): Daniel Presley, Claire Polders
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II (1944)

A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a lost whale during the German occupation of Paris in World War II, and together they embark on a journey to find their families and liberate France. A novel for younger readers (10+)....

Absolutely and Forever

Absolutely and Forever
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Determined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s London How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly...

Adèle

Adèle
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed...

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)
  • Author(s): Carole Bumpus
  • Location(s): Provence, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Fans of Peter Mayle and Janine Marsh will enjoy this exploration of medieval villages, cultures, and recipes of France’s Provence. This travelogue is Book 4 in the author’s best-selling series, which has won the IPPY gold medal for Best...

After Paris

After Paris
  • Author(s): Nicole Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three women take the same Eurostar to Paris for a girls’ trip, but take separate trains back. What happened that weekend? A thought-provoking and gripping novel about trying to hold on to friendships when you start to grow apart....

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