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Black Water Lilies

Black Water Lilies
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): Giverny
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Times

Giverny. During the day, the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his waterlilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the...

The Watcher in the Shadows

The Watcher in the Shadows
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Young Adult

A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created… an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old...

Atonement

Atonement
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dunkirk, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935 onwards

13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the...

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

After escaping death at the hands of a ruthless murderer while honeymooning in Constantinople (Tears of Pearl), Lady Emily is recuperating from her wounds at her mother-in-law’s estate in Normandy when, while out horseback riding in the countryside, she...

The Swan Thieves

The Swan Thieves
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Kostova
  • Location(s): Normandy, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th to late 20th Century

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life – solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National...

Badfellas

Badfellas
  • Author(s): Tonino Benacquista
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Released as a film called ‘The Family’ with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. The story is violent, pacy and full of black humour. Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France, or perhaps better, Ray Liotta,...

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Pass
  • Location(s): Devon, Normandy, The American South
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It’s 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts...

Flight Before Dawn

Flight Before Dawn
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): WWII

Before there was D-Day… For over two years, she’s watched him. Now he’s on her doorstep. This is life in the Resistance. In Normandy in 1943, Victoire leads a band of the Resistance. When Leal, the man she’s had...

Her Nanny’s Secret

Her Nanny’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jan Baynham
  • Location(s): Wales, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941, 1963

It’s 1941; Annie Beynon defies convention by working as a stable girl for the wealthy Pryce family whose son leaves to join the RAF. She has a secret that when it’s threatened to become exposed, she makes a shocking...

His Very Own Girl

His Very Own Girl
  • Author(s): Carrie Lofty
  • Location(s): Leicestershire, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): World War II

After the War took the lives of Lulu Davies’s parents and her fiancé, she promised herself she would guard her heart carefully and concentrate on her great love—flying the biggest and best airplanes in the sky. Lulu is a...

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