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The Promise of Provence

The Promise of Provence
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

June in Provence is full of promise when Katherine arrives from Canada, eager to feel renewed by her surroundings. Endless rows of lavender prepare to burst into pink and purple blooms. Fields of sunflowers flow in golden waves among...

The Riviera

The Riviera
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The journey is only as good as its end…  It’s been a hard journey, but Lizzie Lambert’s life is a Provençal dream come true. Her business is wildly successful, and with her little boy and the love of her...

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Lita-Rose Betcherman
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Picasso to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill to sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. The glorious strip of Mediterranean beach stretching from Marseilles to Monaco still attracts writers, artists, film stars, and scoundrels. Betcherman’s rich account will delight tourists and armchair...

The Secret Life of Writers

The Secret Life of Writers
  • Author(s): Guillaume Musso
  • Location(s): Îles d'Hyères
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. As Fawles’ novels continue to captivate...

The Suitors

The Suitors
  • Author(s): Cecile David-Weill
  • Location(s): Antibes, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise...

The Twisted Vine

The Twisted Vine
  • Author(s): Alex Martin
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Every journey is an adventure, especially one into the unknown. The shocking discovery of her lover with someone else, propels Roxanne into escaping to France, and seeking work as a grape-picker. She’s never been abroad before or travelled alone....

The Villa Golitsyn

The Villa Golitsyn
  • Author(s): Piers Paul Read
  • Location(s): Nice, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The story of a British Foreign Office official, who visits a schoolfriend – now living in the South of France. It has been a suspicion that the friend was not altogether clean whilst work for the Government, so is...

Tin Man

Tin Man
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...

Vanda

Vanda
  • Author(s): Marion Brunet, Katherine Gregor (translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Marseilles, this is the story of Vanda, a beautiful woman in her thirties, arms covered in tats, skin so dark that some take her for a North African. Devoted to her six-year-old son Now, they live in...

Ventoux

Ventoux
  • Author(s): Bert Wagendorp
  • Location(s): Zutphen, Vaucluse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982 and modern

During the summer of 1982, six friends–five boys, one girl–climb the legendary Mont Ventoux on their bicycles. A tragic accident claims the life of one of them, the promising poet Peter. Thirty years later, the others find themselves travelling...

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