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Rendezvous in Cannes

Rendezvous in Cannes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the parties and the champagne at the glitzy, glamorous Cannes Film Festival, two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas. Will Anna, newly in love with Leo, be able to reconcile her present-day happiness with...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

Scent

Scent
  • Author(s): Isabel Costello
  • Location(s): Provence, Paris, The Latin Quarter (5/6 ème)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1992

When Clementine and Edouard’s last child leaves home, the cracks in their marriage become impossible to ignore. Her work as a perfumer is no longer providing solace and her sense of self is withering. Then, her former lover resurfaces,...

Scent of Triumph

Scent of Triumph
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Grasse, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

Songs of Blue and Gold

Songs of Blue and Gold
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Corfu, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island … Melissa’s life...

Sun Damage

Sun Damage
  • Author(s): Sabine Durrant
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. She just needs to escape . . . Nine guests arrive at a remote villa in the south of France. They know each other well. Or think they do. But at...

Taking Root in Provence

Taking Root in Provence
  • Author(s): Anne-Marie Simons
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

They agreed on one thing before retiring-they would travel, sniff around at other countries and other lifestyles, and discover along the way which place came closest to “having it all.” There they would drop anchor and go with the...

The Chocolate Rose

The Chocolate Rose
  • Author(s): Laura Florand
  • Location(s): Nice, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Her father’s worst enemy… Top chef Gabriel Delange never forgave his old nemesis Pierre Manon for all the other chef had cost him. One stolen rose… And he most certainly couldn’t stand the sight of his own most famous...

The Dream of Scipio

The Dream of Scipio
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Various

Set in Provence at three crucial moments of Western civilisation (the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Second World War in the 20th), Pears presents the...

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