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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...

Charlatan

Charlatan
  • Author(s): Kate Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of the King of France, Louis XIV. Three years later, Athénaïs,...

Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France, Tarn-et-Garonne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission – officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English...

Château Rouge

Château Rouge
  • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious. A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that...

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