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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...

Escape to the French Farmhouse

Escape to the French Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Victoria Brownlee
  • Location(s): Paris, Chinon, Touraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

The heartwarming sequel to Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop. Ella moved to Paris on a whim – and found happily ever after. But after six months of romantic bliss, living with her French boyfriend, cheesemonger Serge, Ella’s new...

Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop

Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop
  • Author(s): Victoria Brownlee
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018

Who needs love when you can eat cheese? Heartbroken and on the cusp of turning 30, Ella decides to pack her bags and move to Paris, somewhere she had visited when she was a different, more adventurous person. It’s...

Escape to the Riviera

Escape to the Riviera
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

**Lose yourself in the south of France this summer, in this fabulously feel-good beach read!** Carrie Hayes has a job she enjoys and a perfectly nice boyfriend. She’s sorted. Isn’t she? But Carrie’s life wasn’t always like this. As...

Exit Party

Exit Party
  • Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel
  • Location(s): California, Paris
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Future
  • Era(s): 2031 onwards

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going...

Eye Spy

Eye Spy
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’. Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase,...

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