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Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
  • Author(s): Emmanuelle Pagano
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn’t your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn’t going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles...

Faking It

Faking It
  • Author(s): Leah Marie Brown
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haven’t you ever told a little lie in the name of love? Vivia Grant couldn’t be happier. She has her dream job and is about to marry her dream man. Does it really matter that she’s led him to...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part V

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part V
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Life is never dull for Beth and her grumpy husband, Jack. In this fifth sparkling episode of the Fat Dogs series, they take on an accident-prone puppy, an impossible forest project and murderous pheasants. Renewed tangles with French authorities...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part VI

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part VI
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Let’s be honest, relaxed living doesn’t apply to the Haslams. And certainly not with their accident-prone dogs and animal rescues. When a devastating event rocks Jack and Beth’s world, the joy of a new arrival is just what they...

Fat Dogs and French Estates Part III

Fat Dogs and French Estates Part III
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (post 2007)

Beth, and her grumpy husband, Jack, have finally bought their dream country estate, but their “modest” renovation process soon turns into a project of nightmarish proportions. Join them as they take on a team of eccentric French builders, stampeding...

Fiesta: The Sun also Rises

Fiesta: The Sun also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple...

Find Me

Find Me
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Paris, Florence, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of ‘Call Me by Your Name’ lets us back into his characters’ lives years after their first meeting In ‘Find Me’, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel,...

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes), London, Rotterdam, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

Inspired by a true story, this refugee’s tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the rugged Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697 in a sweeping adventure during a time of religious divisiveness and Louis XIV’s oppressive rule....

Five Days in Provence

Five Days in Provence
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five lifelong friends gather at a picturesque farmhouse nestled amidst the lavender fields to celebrate a birthday, but beneath the sun-drenched skies of Provence, their dream escape will end in murder. Steph spent months planning her perfect birthday celebration....

Five Quarters of the Orange

Five Quarters of the Orange
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1960s

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at...

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