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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...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Evie isa receptionist in a high profile cosmetic surgery. She has never had a good holiday, really, so perks up when she is invited by her employers to attend a conference in the South of France. Things do not...
- Location(s): Arles
- Genre(s): Short Stories
A chance encounter leads to an appreciation of the spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers in this evocative short story from one of New Zealand’s finest writers.David Wilson takes a trip around Europe after the death of his wife....
- Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 1920s
Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn’t realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village grocery. Parisian-exile Fabian’s welcome goes from bad to worse as his attempts to drag the shop into the...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
Jenny Silver’s trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do?’ Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. Her marriage is reassuringly stable,...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Have you ever enjoyed a holiday so much you could not bear to go home? When 18 year old Imogen from London meets Jules in the south of France she is painting a view of the river and finds...
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