Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Drawing Lessons

Drawing Lessons
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of the Love in Provence series returns to the South of France with a poignant portrait of a woman who must learn how to create a new life for herself… Sixty-two-year-old Arianna arrives in the South of...

Dreaming of Manderley

Dreaming of Manderley
  • Author(s): Leah Marie Brown
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Going from old money to no money, the three Maxwell sisters’ lives are about to change drastically. Now, one by one, each must blaze her own trail to happily-ever-after . . . Manderley Maxwell has always been the dependable,...

Dreaming Of… France

Dreaming Of… France
  • Author(s): Kate Hewitt, Helen Brooks, Sue MacKay
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The City of Love! Cruelly discarded on her wedding night, Noelle Ducasse buries the shame of being an untouched bride. Until Ammar returns… The image of Noelle’s guileless eyes lingers with Ammar still. Noelle can refuse him all she...

Duck Season

Duck Season
  • Author(s): David McAninch
  • Location(s): Gascony
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gascony–a deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourism–meeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life. Though he’d been a card-carrying...

Edie and the Flits in Paris (Edie and the Flits #2)

Edie and the Flits in Paris (Edie and the Flits #2)
  • Author(s): Kate Wilkinson, Joe Berger (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Edie and the flits are off to Paris for a new adventure! A magical story about friendship, family and the importance of noticing the little things in life. Edie and Naz were so looking forward to their exciting trip...

Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136

Eleanor:  Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136
  • Author(s): Kristiana Gregory
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1136

Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15. Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France,...

Elsewhere

Elsewhere
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The personal story of a thousand mile walk across France from Sangatte to the Mediterranean. This is a journal about being alone, the joys of walking through an almost deserted countryside and the guilt of being away from one’s...

Enchantée

Enchantée
  • Author(s): Gita Trelease
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1789, 18th century

A compellingly beautiful tale of magic, intrigue and deception, set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Paris on the cusp of revolution. Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries – and magicians ....

Encore Provence

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

Further memoires of Peter Mayle in Provence.

Escape

Escape
  • Author(s): Dominique Manotti
  • Location(s): Milan, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

It’s1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first, Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now