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FRANCE BOOKS
Including Classic French Books!
Read about France through
the works of the Great
Writers and Authors

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Living and working in France
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GENERAL

A Disgraceful Affair
by Bianca Lamblin
Lamblin's account of her affair in 1940 with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Matisse's War
by Peter Everett
A novel about the relationship of Louis Aragon to Henri Matisse from 1939-45
Question of Loyalties
by Allan Massie
A superb novel about betrayal, love, nationality at the time of Vichy France

Girl at the Lion D'or
by Sebastian Faulks

Love and desire in a small French town in the 1930s
Fields of Glory
by Jean Rouard

A wonderful novel

Of Illustrious Men
by Jean Rouard

A wonderful novel
The First Man
by Albert Camus

Autobiographical novel found at the car accident that took Camus's life - about early years in Algeria

A Little Tour of France
by Henry James

A literary classic - Henry travels through France!!
The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
A guide to living life to the full

Living and Working in France
by David Hampshire
One of the best guides to living in France - a bible to many!
Retiring in France
by David Hampshire
All you need to know about enjoying your retirement in France.

Songs of the Women Troubadours
by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, Sarah White
A glorious book about the great women troubadours of Languedoc


GENERAL TRAVEL GUIDES

Cross-Channel
by Julian Barnes
Amusing selection of stories of Anglo-French themes

Michelin Red Guide to France
The definitive guide to restaurants and hotels in France
Michelin Green Guide to the Wines of France
A bible for knowing the terroirs and the wines of France

Northern France and Paris Region Green Guide (Michelin Green Guides)
Amusing selection of stories of Anglo-French themes

Motor-flight through France
by Edith Wharton
Tales of the early days of motor car travel in France (1900-1910)


PARIS TRAVEL AND LITERARY INTEREST


Paris: A Literary Companion
by Ian Littlewood

Paris
by Julian Green.

A collection of fond memories of the city, where he was born in 1900.
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

Quartet
by Jean Rhys

Good Morning Midnight
by Jean Rhys

Down and Out in London and Paris
by George Orwell
Tales of the New Babylon
by Rupert Christiansen

The Spirit of the Belle Epoque.

Paris after the Liberation
by Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper
Paris Notebooks
by Mavis Gallant

Foriegn Correspondent
by Peter Lennon


COTE D'AZUR

May We Borrow Your Husband
by Graham Greene

By the author who lived in the port of Antibes.

Loser Takes All
by Graham Greene.

By the author who lived in the port of Antibes.
The Facts of Life
by Somerset Maugham,

He lived at Cap Ferrat.

The Rock Pool
by Cyril Connolly

Jigsaw
by Sybil Bedford

The Villa Golitsyn
by Pier Paul Read

The Statement
by Brian Moore

Tender is the Night
by Scott Fitzgerald



CORSICA

Granite Island
by Dorothy Carrington

The Dream Hunters of Corsica
by Dorothy Carrington


PROVENCE

The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giorno

Provence during the cholera epidemic of the 1830's.

DVD of Film
and
Book available

Jean de Florette
by Marcel Pagnol

DVD of Film
and
Book available
Manon des Sources
by Marcel Pagnol

DVD of Film
and
Book available

Fanny
by Marcel Pagnol

DVD of Film
and
Book available

Marius
by Marcel Pagnol

DVD of Film
and
Book available

Cesar
by Marcel Pagnol

DVD of Film
and
Book available
Village in the Vaucluse
by Laurence Wylie

Dictionnaire des Communes Vaucluse
by Robert Bailly

Guide de la Provence mysterieuse,
by Jean-Paul Clebert

Old Provence
by Theodore A Cook
1905
The Carmargue
by Carol Dix
1975

The Most Beautiful villages of Provence
by Michael Jacobs

Provence & the Cote D'Azur
by Nicola Williams

(Lonely Planet Country & Regional Guides),

Memoirs
by Frederic Mistral
1907
Villages de Provence
by Alaine Paire and Christian Sarramon

Aspects of Provence
by James Pope-Hennesey
1952
Two Towns in Provence
by MJK Fisher

A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle

DVD of Film
and
Book available
Next Time Round in Provence
by Ian Norrie

Perfume from Provence
by Lady Fortescue
Sunset House: More Perfume from Provence
by Lady Fortescue

Caesar's vast ghost : Aspects of Provence
by Lawrence Durrell


LANGUEDOC

Montaillou
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie .

Study of life in a village after the suppression of the Cathars

An Englishman in the Midi
by John P Harris

Languedoc-Roussillon
by Nicola Williams

(Lonely Planet Country & Regional Guides)

Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc
by Angela Murrills
The Rough Guide to Languedoc & Roussillon
Brian Catlos

(Rough Guide to Languedoc & Rousillon)		 Two Vagabonds in Languedoc: Classic Portrait of a French Village by Jan Gordon


LES LANDES

Therese
by Francois Mauriac
The Frontenac Mystery
by Francois Mauriac


CEVENNES

Travels with a Donkey
by Robert Louis Stevenson		 Footsteps
by Richard Holmes


SOUTHERN FRANCE

Three Rivers of France
by Freda White		 West of the Rhône
by Freda White

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