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A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence
  • Author(s): Peter Mayle
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in...

An Act of Love

An Act of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 WW2

France, 1943. Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left...

Death in Provence

Death in Provence
  • Author(s): Serena Kent
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rosé . . . What she doesn’t imagine is the dead...

FALL OUT

FALL OUT
  • Author(s): M N Grenside
  • Location(s): California, London, Switzerland, The Philippines, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): PRESENT

An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT – a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a...

Fatal Inheritance

Fatal Inheritance
  • Author(s): Rachel Rhys
  • Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...

French Coast

French Coast
  • Author(s): Anita Hughes
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Serena has the job she’s always dreamed of and Chase, the man her heart never dared to. As a new editor at Vogue, she bags the biggest interview of the year with Yvette Renault, the infamous former editor of...

French Exchange with Rubies

French Exchange with Rubies
  • Author(s): Stephanie McCarthy
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Carcassone
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2017

When Elodie’s parents rejected her, she was sent to live with her controlling grandmother in Marseille. The only sign of her mother’s supposed affection for her were gifts of ruby necklaces which Elodie believed to be genuine. When we...

Jacquot and the Waterman

Jacquot and the Waterman
  • Author(s): Martin O'Brien
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in the South of France, the first in the Jacquot series follows Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot’s investigation into a series of disturbing killings, where the female victims are always left submerged in water. Ex-French National Rugby Squad player...

L’Auberge

L’Auberge
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees has been thrown into turmoil by the revelation that the Auberge des Deux Vallées has been bought by an English couple and not by the Mayor’s brother-in-law as had been...

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