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Margot

Margot
  • Author(s): Lisa De Castro
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current time

Margot has gifted herself with a vacation to Corsica—the fulfillment of a promise made to herself long ago. And she must admit she’s enjoying the solitude that traveling alone brings, even if the indulgence prompts a guilty twinge or...

The House at Zaronza

The House at Zaronza
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Two women divided by a century. A tragic love story buried for four generations. A quest to unravel the past. Corsica 2010 The death of Rachel’s mother leaves unsolved questions about her ancestors. Will Rachel find the answers she desperately...

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

The Corsican Widow

The Corsican Widow
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Corsica, 1755. Can Valeria Peretti escape the destiny that is mapped out for her? While the island struggles for independence against its Genoese masters, she must marry an older, wealthy man. A quiet, respectable life apparently awaits Valeria, but...

The Island Escape

The Island Escape
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Corsica, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Can one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Fans of Veronica Henry and Erica James, this is the next book to add to your reading list. It’s time to get back to where it all began… Octavia Sheldon...

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
  • Author(s): Jérôme Ferrari
  • Location(s): Algiers, Corsica, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The mysterious disappearance of Hayet, the manageress of the village bar, presents a conundrum for its owner, who cannot face a return to the days of late nights, lewd customers and greasy dishwater. A succession of would-be hosts and...

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes

A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Corsica, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The Love in Provence characters are celebrating a glorious spring on the Côte d’Azur. There are sweet-smelling blossoms, buds bursting into bloom, explosions of golden mimosa, dazzling sunshine, a shimmering sea … and a worrying disappearance! A hidden past...

Asterix in Corsica

Asterix in Corsica
  • Author(s): René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 50 BC

Vendettas, fierce family pride, resistance fighters dodging the enemy in the maquis – we’re in Cosica in 50 BC. Asterix and Obelix help Chief Boneywasawarriorwayayix to foil the evil designs of Praetor Perfidius and oppose Julius Caesar’s army. For...

Cave Dreams

Cave Dreams
  • Author(s): A R Donenfeld-Vernoux
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Aldo is the last living consort of a goddess worshiped when humankind believed god was a woman, and sex was holy. After thousands of years of hiding in the wild mountains of Corsica, his clan died out, leaving him...

Colomba

Colomba
  • Author(s): Prosper Mérimée
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it...

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