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Geography Of The Heart

Geography Of The Heart
  • Author(s): Fenton Johnson
  • Location(s): Paris, Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

In this poignant memoir, the author interweaves two fascinating stories: his own upbringing as the youngest of nine children of a Kentucky whiskey maker and that of his lover Larry Rose, the only child of German Jews, survivors of...

George’s Grand Tour

George’s Grand Tour
  • Author(s): Caroline Vermalle
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the path of The Tour de France…..At the age of 83, retired butcher George Nicoleau is about to set off on the greatest adventure of his life. George and his neighbour Charles have long dreamt of a road...

Germinal

Germinal
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Val-d'Oise
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners...

Getaway

Getaway
  • Author(s): Rod Humphris
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Suzana Chesterfield, recently rescued from a gang of slave-traders by Simon Ellice, has come sailing with him to try to work out what to do with her life. And perhaps to find out whether the handsome, selfish, bastard should...

Getting Lost

Getting Lost
  • Author(s): Annie Ernaux
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1989

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was...

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
  • Author(s): M R James
  • Location(s): St Bertrand de Comminges
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book is one of the stories in this collection, and this is set in the Pyrenees. M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but by...

Gilded Wolves

Gilded Wolves
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1889

Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than...

Giovanni’s Room

Giovanni’s Room
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened –...

Glass Half Full: The Ups and Downs of Vineyard Life in France

Glass Half Full: The Ups and Downs of Vineyard Life in France
  • Author(s): Caro Feely
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Hand harvesting was a different process to machine harvesting. It was convivial and slow. We started at dawn and slowly proceeded across the vineyards. It was better for us and for the grapes, the human scale and pace of...

Glorious Poison

Glorious Poison
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): French Revolution, 18th century

The daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn’s epic C18th French Revolution trilogy ‘with lashings of lust, love, sacrifice, betrayal and horror’. Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L’Aubespine...

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