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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...

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...

Last Chance in the Pyrenees

Last Chance in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

No 5 in the Fogas series When tragedy strikes the small mountain village of Fogas in the French Pyrenees, the residents must once more rally round to protect their precious way of life – and this time the stakes...

Meet Me in Monaco

Meet Me in Monaco
  • Author(s): Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along...

Second Harvest

Second Harvest
  • Author(s): Jean Giono
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Panturle lives in the nearly deserted village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. That autumn, Gaubert, the blacksmith, “a little man all mustache, ” had left; and before the winter was out, the well-sinker’s widow had left as well....

The Artisan’s Star

The Artisan’s Star
  • Author(s): Gabriella Contestabile
  • Location(s): Florence, Grasse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Elio Barati’s perfumery shop in Florence marks its entrance with a mosaic star. This shop immerses Elio in the artisanal world he loves, but he harbors a regret. As a young man he created a full-fledged perfume of jasmine,...

The Forgotten Summer

The Forgotten Summer
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1923

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by...

The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of...

The Paris Secret

The Paris Secret
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Antibes, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Not every door should be opened . . . With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan. Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with...

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