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Bonjour tristesse

Bonjour tristesse
  • Author(s): Françoise Sagan
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences.

Bonjour, Sophie

Bonjour, Sophie
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert...

Book of Forbidden Words

Book of Forbidden Words
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1550s / 1950s

1552, Paris: Against a backdrop of turmoil, suspicion, and paranoia, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened...

Bordeaux, Private Eye

Bordeaux, Private Eye
  • Author(s): Rorie Smith
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bill Smith sits in front of his old Underwood typewriter. After much pencil-tapping and a few false starts, he begins the story of Bill and Polly Smith, colourful quayside photographers in Bordeaux who believe they are on the trail...

Box 88

Box 88
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1989 & 2020

An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. Years ago, a spy was born… 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating...

But you are in France, Madame

But you are in France, Madame
  • Author(s): Catherine Berry
  • Location(s): Annecy, French Alps
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current era

Several years ago, my husband, three young children and I unzipped and discarded our comfortable Australian lifestyle and slipped on life in the country of haute couture. On arrival, there was no celebrity designer waiting for us, ready to...

By a Slow River

By a Slow River
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War I

A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, By a Slow River is a mesmerizing and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome...

C’est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France

C’est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family and his ever-expanding menagerie are beginning to feel like they’re on the cusp of the peace and tranquillity they hoped for when they moved from dreary...

Cave Dreams

Cave Dreams
  • Author(s): A R Donenfeld-Vernoux
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Aldo is the last living consort of a goddess worshiped when humankind believed god was a woman, and sex was holy. After thousands of years of hiding in the wild mountains of Corsica, his clan died out, leaving him...

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