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As The Eagle Flies

As The Eagle Flies
  • Author(s): Nolwenn Le Blevennec, Madeleine Rogers (translator)
  • Location(s): Northern France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A subtle, singular novel of profound insight, delivered in a voice so hilarious, intimate and frank, it was as if I suddenly had a zany French genius for my best friend. I enjoyed this book so much it felt...

Assignment in Brittany

Assignment in Brittany
  • Author(s): Helen Macinnes
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1940

OCCUPIED BRITTANY, 1940… Hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago he had joked with the red-haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate. Three hours ago he had stood on English earth. Three...

Asterix in Corsica

Asterix in Corsica
  • Author(s): René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 50 BC

Vendettas, fierce family pride, resistance fighters dodging the enemy in the maquis – we’re in Cosica in 50 BC. Asterix and Obelix help Chief Boneywasawarriorwayayix to foil the evil designs of Praetor Perfidius and oppose Julius Caesar’s army. For...

At Night All Blood Is Black

At Night All Blood Is Black
  • Author(s): David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (translator)
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War I

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France’s German enemies whenever the whistle blows,...

August is a Wicked Month

August is a Wicked Month
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Banned in several countries on first publication, Edna O’Brien’s August is a Wicked Month is a simmering, sensual tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the...

Augustine: A bittersweet romance of 19th-century France

Augustine: A bittersweet romance of 19th-century France
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

Love conquers all. Or does it? Rural France, 1880. Augustine is not pretty and fears she may never marry. Joseph rents his land and dreams of owning a farm one day. But without a wife and children, he lacks...

Background for Love

Background for Love
  • Author(s): Helen Wolff
  • Location(s): St Tropez (Saint-Tropez), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Autofiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France written by famed publisher Helen Wolff, based on her early life with Kurt Wolff In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape...

Bad Marie

Bad Marie
  • Author(s): Marcy Dermansky
  • Location(s): Paris, Manhattan, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is...

Badfellas

Badfellas
  • Author(s): Tonino Benacquista
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Released as a film called ‘The Family’ with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. The story is violent, pacy and full of black humour. Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France, or perhaps better, Ray Liotta,...

BANJO

BANJO
  • Author(s): Claude McKay
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseille waterfront as ‘Banjo’, passes his days panhandling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo, Malty, Ginger, Dengel, Bugsy, Taloufa, Goosey, and even Jake...

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