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Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Perfume from Provence

Perfume from Provence
  • Author(s): Lady Fortescue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

The original story of falling for France, Perfume from Provence was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when...

Playdate

Playdate
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Norway, Ariège, Sandefjord, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction.   Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, her mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round...

The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They thought it was perfect. They were wrong… A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay...

The French House

The French House
  • Author(s): Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it’s time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her...

The Hotel Riviera

The Hotel Riviera
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany Box, and you’ll get the feel of my little hotel. It’s a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for...

The House With The Lilac Shutters

The House With The Lilac Shutters
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Barnby
  • Location(s): England, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Irma Lagrasse has taught piano to three generations of villagers, whilst slowly twisting the knife of vengeance; Nico knows a secret; and M. Lenoir has discovered a suppressed and dangerous passion. Revolving around the Café Rose, opposite The House...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Light Behind the Window

The Light Behind the Window
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This novel is the same book as The Lavender Garden The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world...

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Author(s): Ann Radcliffe
  • Location(s): The Appenines, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1950s

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.’ Such is the state...

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