50 Reasons to Say Goodbye |
 Nick Alexander
ISBN: 2952489904
Mark is looking for love in all the wrong places. He always ignores the warning signs preferring to dream, time and time again. that he has met the perfect lover, until one day, finally, he does...Through fifty different adventures, Nick Alexander takes...(read more) |
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A Run to Hell |
 Frederick Schofield
ISBN: 1929625170
An FBI agent and a mob lawyer investigate mysterious deaths - including that of Princess Grace of Monaco - in this Tom Clancy-style thriller. |
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Croissant the Channel: Next Stop, France |
 Peter Hanrahan
ISBN: 0954837401
The hilarious story of two families travelling through France for four weeks of camping. Their journey brings them into contact with a variety of situations illustrating the quirkier side of a country which, Denis, the hero, is passionately in love with. |
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Getting Away from It All |
 Alexandra Carew
ISBN: 074993431X
Lia Scott is stuck. Stuck in a dead-end job, stuck with her penny-pinching boyfriend, and stuck in cold, wet London. When she's made redundant, Lia decides to take drastic action, and escapes to the South of France to reinvent herself as a writer. |
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Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources |
 Marcel Pagnol
ISBN: 185375529X
In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water to grow their own flowers and crops, so are dismayed to hear that a new owner is moving in. They...(read more) |
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Perfume |
 Patrick Suskind
ISBN: 0141023597
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover, he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating...(read more) |
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Super-Cannes |
 J.G. Ballard
ISBN: 0006551602
A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a crime of the most disturbing kind in this extraordinary bestseller from one of Britain's most important living novelists. After over three decades at the forefront of modern...(read more) |
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Tender Is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Designer Classics) |
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 0713999500
This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "Tender is the Night" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading British photographer, Sam Taylor-Wood. Between the First World War...(read more) |
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The Avignon Quintet |
 Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 0571225551
An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian...(read more) |
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The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers |
 Ted Jones
ISBN: 186064967X
This is a literary tour of the French Riviera. It covers the lives and work of all the writers who found inspiration there - from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there, to those writers whose work it dominates, such...(read more) |
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The Long Afternoon |
 Giles Waterfield
ISBN: 0747268487
Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a...(read more) |
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The Penguin Book of French Poetry |
 William Rees (Editor)
ISBN: 0140423850
This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the...(read more) |
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