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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...

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

Flaubert’s Parrot

Flaubert’s Parrot
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam;...

Fleur de Lies

Fleur de Lies
  • Author(s): Maddy Hunter
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): present day

Deja Vu All Over Again! When intrepid travel agency owner Emily Andrew-Miceli takes her band of tech-savvy seniors to France, they say “Bonjour” by cruising down the Seine River. Along for the ride are a colorful cast of cruise-goers,...

Flight Before Dawn

Flight Before Dawn
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): WWII

Before there was D-Day… For over two years, she’s watched him. Now he’s on her doorstep. This is life in the Resistance. In Normandy in 1943, Victoire leads a band of the Resistance. When Leal, the man she’s had...

Footsteps

Footsteps
  • Author(s): Richard Holmes
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1985 looking back

In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and...

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