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Along the Infinite Sea

Along the Infinite Sea
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Florida, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/1930s

Decadent and evocative storytelling at its very best., by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, Beatriz Williams 1966, Florida Pepper Schuyler is the kind of woman society loves and loves to talk about – a dazzling being who men watch across...

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral
  • Author(s): Darlene Foster
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): current

Amanda is in love! With Paris – the city of love. She’s in awe of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and Notre Dame Cathedral. While there, she gets to work as a volunteer and stay...

An English Girl Abroad

An English Girl Abroad
  • Author(s): Alice Murray
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): 1990s

Katie Jones is twenty-one and embarking on her year abroad, working as a groom for a French family. She can’t wait to get started, but things never seem to go smoothly for Katie. Juggling the challenges of a foreign...

An Escape to Provence

An Escape to Provence
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Where there’s a will, can love find a way? When cynical divorce lawyer Daisy Jackson unexpectedly inherits a ramshackle farmhouse in Provence, she sets off for the French countryside to oversee renovations herself. But Gabriel Laforet has other ideas....

Another Country

Another Country
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): London, Mumbai (Bombay), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning ‘Saraswati Park’. Paris, London, Bombay: three cities form a backdrop to a journey through Leela’s twenties at the dawn...

Appointment in Paris

Appointment in Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Following an acclaimed debut outing, Harry Fox, an MI5 Watcher, now suspended, and his associate Stella Fry are reunited during Britain’s darkest hour in this gripping espionage thriller. April 1940, and Britain is in turmoil. Chamberlain’s government is faltering,...

April in Paris

April in Paris
  • Author(s): Michael Wallner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

When people on Paris’s bustling streets look at Michael Roth, they see little more than a Parisian student, a quietly spoken young man with a book under his arm, handsome but guarded. What they do not realize is that...

Are You the Foie Gras Correspondent?

Are You the Foie Gras Correspondent?
  • Author(s): Chris Bockman
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

Every summer thousands of Brits and other Europeans head to the south west of France for bliss, beauty and freedom. It’s great for a holiday – but what’s it like to actually live and work there? That is what...

Art Collector’s Daughter

Art Collector’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Derville Murphy
  • Location(s): Paris, Dublin, Wexford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): World War II and the present day

A gripping psychological thriller set between Paris and Wexford, Ireland during World war II and the present day. As the German’s march on Paris, a French art collector sends his daughter Sylvie, and his valuable collection to rural Ireland...

Article 353

Article 353
  • Author(s): Tanguy Viel
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In a depressed town on France’s northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning...

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