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A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence
  • Author(s): Peter Mayle
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in...

Black Water Lilies

Black Water Lilies
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): Giverny
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Times

Giverny. During the day, the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his waterlilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the...

Chéri

Chéri
  • Author(s): Colette
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Chéri – a playboy half her age....

Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Provence, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then...

Dark Vineyard

Dark Vineyard
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just before dawn one summer morning Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St Denis in the Perigord. A fire is raging in a local barn and spreading to the surrounding fields....

Death By Baguette

Death By Baguette
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysitter for her cat, and even a boyfriend. Regrettably she won’t get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her new beau, Chad. Instead, she will be...

Death in Provence

Death in Provence
  • Author(s): Serena Kent
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rosé . . . What she doesn’t imagine is the dead...

Estella’s Revenge

Estella’s Revenge
  • Author(s): Barbara Havelocke
  • Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...

Fatal Inheritance

Fatal Inheritance
  • Author(s): Rachel Rhys
  • Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...

Foreign Tongue

Foreign Tongue
  • Author(s): Vanina Marsot
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna has just had her heart broken in LA. But unlike most women who have been unlucky with love, she has an enviable backup plan – she uses her dual citizenship and moves to Paris to live in her...

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