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- Location(s): Le Cannet, Provence
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind’s eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She’s always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex....
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern
Jake and Zoe, two people deeply in love are on a skiing holiday in the beautiful village of Saint Bernard en Haut in the French Pyrenees when they are suddenly engulfed in a avalanche. What follows is utterly disconcerting...
The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club
- Location(s): St Tropez
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Contessa Carlotta di Ponti, stunningly beautiful and filthy rich, has finally escaped her abusive marriage and is looking to find true love in St. Tropez. The party season kicks off with a spectacular bash at billionaire Harry Silver’s palatial...
- Location(s): Cannes
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman....
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
1928 – Frederick Watson crashes his car in a snowstorm in the foothills of the Pyrenees. He believes he hears a woman’s voice: ‘The Winter Ghosts’. He abandons his car and walks down the hillside path to the small...
There’s Something About St Tropez
- Location(s): St Tropez
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Sunny Alvarez’s life is looking decidedly bleak. For what seems like the umpteenth time, her perennial fiance, TV celebrity detective Mac Reilly, has postponed their wedding in favor of a demanding case. Tired of playing second banana to Mac’s...
Thirty-Five Minutes from St Tropez
- Location(s): Provence, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
On a vineyard in sunny Provence, Richard and Helen make plans to celebrate their ruby wedding anniversary. Meanwhile, romance is in the air for Joanna, Helen’s recently widowed sister and for their teenage grandchildren. Grandson, Joseph, is enjoying life...
- Location(s): Var
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia
- Location(s): Middlesex, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...
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