A Year in Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0140296034
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life. In a...(read more) |
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Bonne Chance!: Building a Life in Rural France |
 Richard Wiles
ISBN: 1840244933
Deep in the Limousin countryside, Richard Wiles bought his dream home. But little did he expect to be living full time in the dilapidated farmhouse while struggling to finish the conversion during the insect plagues of summer and the harsh blizzards of...(read more) |
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C'est La Folie |
 Michael Wright
ISBN: 0593054695
In early 2004, Michael Wright said a fond farewell to his comfortable South London existence and, with just his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a new life. His destination was 'La Folie', a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse in need of...(read more) |
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Caesar's Vast Ghost |
 Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 0571214274
Part travelogue, part notebook, part autobiogaphy, this text preserves memories from Lawrence Durrell's intimate experience of the Midi, and scattered through the text are 19 poems. |
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Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing |
 Charles Dickens, John Edmondson (Editor)
ISBN: 1904955061
"Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the...(read more) |
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Encore Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 014024266X
This is a continuation of Peter Mayle's account of an Englishman's life abroad. He tells of a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouillabaisse and an assortment of characters from...(read more) |
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Escape to Provence |
 Maureen Emerson
ISBN: 0955832101
Escape to Provence is the true story of two remarkable women who, with style and energy, carved out new lives for themselves in the South of France in the first part of the last century. An American, Elisabeth Parrish Starr, and an Englishwoman,...(read more) |
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Four Funerals and a Wedding |
 Ben Moss
ISBN: 1857566297
Ben Moss and his family move from Norwich, England, to the quaint and idyllic village of Gréolières in south-eastern France. Falling in love with the picturesque tranquillity if the French countryside but unable to find a property that is both...(read more) |
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France |
 Richard Goodman
ISBN: 1565123522
A story about dirt - and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till. Most of all, it's about the slow-growing friendship between an outsider and a close-knit...(read more) |
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Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride |
 H.Kristina Haugland
ISBN: 0300116446
One of the most admired women in the world, Grace Kelly (1929-1982) is remembered for her beauty, grace and style. Her 'fairy-tale' wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956 was one of the most celebrated of the century. To commemorate its 50th...(read more) |
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Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England |
 Alison Weir
ISBN: 0712641947
In Newgate Street, in the city of London, once stood the magnificent church of a Franciscan monastery. Entirely paved with marble, this royal mausoleum, built in the 14th century, was set to rival Westminster Abbey. Among the many crowned heads buried,...(read more) |
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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France |
 Lucy Moore
ISBN: 0007206011
The bestselling author of "Maharanis" recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen to make their mark on history. At the...(read more) |
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Monaco's Wild Child: Princess Stephanie First Ever Biography |
 Valentina Artsrunik
ISBN: 1903906342
Daughter of Prince Rainier and Hollywood ice maiden Grace Kelly, Stephanie's gilded upbringing was shattered at the age of 17, by the car crash that killed her mother. She survived the accident, but not the conspiracy-mongering of the media that blamed...(read more) |
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle |
 Marcel Pagnol
ISBN: 0330321900
Two books in one volume of Pagnol's childhood memoirs. The stories evoke the sun-baked Provencal countryside and show the young Marcel spending happy hours following in his father's and uncle's footsteps fishing and trapping during the long summer...(read more) |
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Once Upon a Time: The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family |
 J.Randy Taraborelli
ISBN: 0330418327
Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with family and friends, this title paints a portrait of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and their children Caroline, Albert amnd Stephanie. |
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Perfume from Provence |
 Lady Fortescue, E.H. Shepard (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0552998583
After losing all their money in the 1929 stockmarket crash, Sir John and Lady Fortescue sold up and bought a tumbledown cottage in Grasse in Provence. This book recounts their trials and tribulations including rebuilding the house, living with the...(read more) |
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Rainier von Monaco |
 Norbert Loh
ISBN: 342666173X
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Spirit of Resistance: The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé DSO MC |
 Nigel Perrin
ISBN: 1844158551
One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Executive. On his first mission to occupied France to set up the...(read more) |
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The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Life and Olives in the South of France |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0752865447
"The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear ... The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a...(read more) |
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The Olive Season: Amour, a New Life and Olives Too |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0752877631
"I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d'Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers. Beyond them, perched...(read more) |
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Toujours Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0330319477
The sequel to "A Year in Provence". Peter Mayle's love affair with the south of France continues and deepens. Now he's got most of the building work organized, he's had time for a few trips - to the Cannes Film Festival, the Menerbes dog show...(read more) |
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Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France |
 Kristin Espinasse
ISBN: 0743287282
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