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GIVEAWAY: Win 1 of 3 copies of A Chateau Under Siege – DORDOGNE
4th June 2023
We are delighted to be able to offer 3 copies of A Chateau Under Siege by Martin Walker, set in the Dordogne.
UK ONLY
No. 16 in the Dordogne Mystery series.
France’s favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions, the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and escapism.
The event of the Périgord tourist season is to be the re-enactment of the liberation of the historic town of Sarlat from the English in 1370. But it all goes wrong when the man playing the part of the French general is almost killed in the heat of the action.
The immediate question for chief of police Bruno Courrèges is was this an accident – or deliberate? The stakes rise when Bruno learns that the man, Kerquelin, was running Frenchelon, the secret French electronic intelligence base nearby, after being recruited from a brilliant Silicon Valley career. His old Silicon Valley colleagues have been invited to stay at the luxurious local chateau of Rouffillac as his guests to enjoy the Sarlat show.
As he investigates, Bruno discovers that Kerquelin’s wound was faked, that he is alive and well and secretly negotiating a massive deal to build a semi-conductor industry in France. But then a whole new and dangerous player emerges, determined to nip the deal in the bud.
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WINNERS
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Tamdy
Toujours La France! by Janine Marsh
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
My top 3 would be :
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The French Gardener
by Santa Montefiore
A Year at the French Farmhouse: Escape to France
by Gillian Harvey
All The Light We Cannot See is a brilliantly well written book set in France during the war. Definitely transports you right there.
The Citadel – Kate Mosse
Perestroika In Paris By Jane Smiley
The Sweetness Of Forgetting from Kristin Harmel
Paris Is Always A Good Idea By Jenn McKinlay
The Book Thief
Has to be Paris Echo, Sebastian Faulks is a wonderful writes
A Year in Provence
I have just read Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies and it transported me to Wartime France brilliant read
Recently enthralled (and horrified) by Daisy Wood’s – The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris. Also loved A Week in Paris by Rachel Hore. Both authors bring Paris in wartime to life with great skill. Not a fan of 21st Century Paris when I visited it but loved my many holidays in the Dordogne and southern Brittany.
The Da Vinci Code
A Year in Provence
the count of monte cristo
Loved The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The french house
Paris By Edward Rutherfurd, Jean Gilpin
All the Light We Cannot See
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
I love anything my Jennifer Bohnet. She writes so descriptively you feel like you are actually there.
The Maigret novels and Peter May’s Enzo books
A Year in Provence-Mayle’s book always the first to escape into when days are dreary. Light, easy reading when required!
You Had Me at Bonjour by Jennifer Bohnet
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Strawberry Thief, Chocolat.
A Year in Provence
Paris for One
Books by Joanne Harris
Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure and The Strawberry Thief
Madame Bovary, Chocolat by Joanne Harris
A Year in Provence
Paris for One by Jojo Moyes and Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon spring to mind first.
Escape to the french farmhouse by Jo Thomas. It sounds so beautiful there and I can almost smell the fields of lavender!
A year in Provence, France
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (set in Paris) and Coastliners by Joanne Harris (set in Brittany).
Books set in France are my favourite. I loved Chocolat by Joanne Harris and The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
a tale of two cities
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
It’s not fiction, but Village France is a lovely book of some of the prettiest villages in France to visit and we have been to lots of the ones included now.
A Year in Provence
Anything by Peter Mayle
The little Paris book shop and a year in provence
I smile just writing their names
A year in Provence.
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr.
Brittany sections especially.
A Year in Provence has to be the book which immediately transports me to France.
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
My Life in France
Julia Child, 2006
The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, 2013
I love books set in France and Paris, crime, romance and also wartime ones. A recent favourite has been The Paris Library.
But you are in France, Madame – Catherine P. M. Berry
Down and Out in Paris and London.
Sebastian Faulks “Paris Echo” – covers wide areas of the city in two different time frames and has a really fascinating plot.
I have never been to France, I am sure that this book would give me some inspiration
Escape to the French Farmhouse and Celebrations at the Chateau both by Jo Thomas.
The Paris Winter
By Imogen Robertson
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is one of my favourite authors and Chocolat one of my favourite books x
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris. It breathes the life of the maze of tiny streets in the Montmartre district of Paris
Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman could just feel myself in the wonderful fields of Provence in this book. I also loved Labyrinth by Kate Moss for some historical France.
One of the most memorable and evocative books I read with France as its backdrop, was:
‘The Tapestry Of Love’ by Rosy Thornton
Set in the Cevennes mountains, some lovely descriptive passages about the remote and often difficult mountainous conditions, still allowed the beauty and majesty of the scenery to shine through.
Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet and The Holiday by T.M. Logan, both set in Provence in the south of France.
Chocolat
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle was a great adventure to follow.
I loved Still Life
The French for Christmas- Fiona Valpy