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French Impressions-Brittany - George EastFrench Impressions-Brittany - George East
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At last the long awaited new offering from master raconteur George East. French Impressions-Brittany is the first in a series of books about the 22 very different regions of France. It is also a truly innovative travel book. It is a deliberate hybrid of information about Brittany, melded with anecdotes about the often eccentric expatriates and Bretons George encountered on his travels.....

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1000 Years of Annoying the French - Stephen Clarke1000 Years of Annoying the French - Stephen Clarke
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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.......

Relentlessly and energetically rude about almost every aspect of French history and culture. --Mail on Sunday

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Fidelma Cook's French Leave (Or, Yes I'll Have Another Vin Rouge S'il Vous Plait)Fidelma Cook's French Leave (Or, Yes I'll Have Another Vin Rouge S'il Vous Plait)
830

This is the witty and thought-provoking account of how one woman - with only her pet Afghan hound for company - battled against all odds to make a new life for herself in France and live the dream we all wish we had the courage to do ourselves.
It was a dream that sometimes bordered on a nightmare. But who said it would be easy? Well, actually it was Fidelma who did.

'There are lots of books about living abroad, but Cook's sharp eye and refusal to patronise the natives makes hers a cut above the rest.' --Mail on Sunday
Read Fidelma's book in one sitting, laughed out loud and winced at some of the scrapes she got herself into. She spares no one least of all herself!' --Lorraine Kelly, GMTV.

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The Winter Ghosts (Hardcover)The Winter Ghosts (Hardcover)
512

In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. He stumbles through woods, emerging in a tiny village.
There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories.
By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries…….
This is a great read ... Mosse writes movingly about loss and atmospherically about France' - DAILY MAIL.
'Draw the curtains, bank up the fire and enjoy.' - WATERSTONE'S

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Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels for a New Life in Rural FranceTout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels for a New Life in Rural France
509

`Perfect for anyone who dreams of chucking away their Blackberry and downshifting to France.' -- French Property News, August 2009
In her mid-thirties Karen has it all: a career as a fashion editor, a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London and an array of gorgeous shoes. But when her 'plus one' leaves, she wonders if there is more to life than high fashion.
So, she hangs up her Manolos and waves goodbye to her city lifestyle, deciding to go it alone in a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, western France.....

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Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette: On the Road in the Real Rural FranceSerge Bastarde Ate My Baguette: On the Road in the Real Rural France
513

'I found Serge's advice mostly useful and it would have been churlish to have refused his invitation to accompany him on a trip out in the country to 'forage for hidden treasures'.
If the truth be known, I secretly couldn't resist the novelty of passing time with a bloke called Serge Bastarde'…...
`Dummer describes a very different France... Bastarde grows on you, with his imaginative lies and unexpected generosity.' --The Financial Times, 3 October 2009

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French Women Don't Sleep AloneFrench Women Don't Sleep Alone
523

A feel-good book about relationships that will dramatically change women's approach to men and dating.
What Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat did for dieting, Jame Callan's French Women Don't Sleep Alone does for romance and love.

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The Secret life of FranceThe Secret life of France
563

In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship with France. Using her own personal experiences over 25 years, Lucy offers a rare, insider's view of a nation that may be deeply incompatible with ours but is also, she thinks, chronically misunderstood……

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The Discovery of FranceThe Discovery of France
552

Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, "The Discovery of France" is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a book that reveals the 'real' past of France to tell the whole story - and history - of this remarkable nation. 'With gloriously apposite facts and an abundance of quirky anecdotes and thumbnail sketches of people, places and customs, Robb, on brilliant form, takes us on a stunning journey through the historical landscape of France' - "Independent". 'Certain books strain the patience of those close to you…..

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Travels with a Donkey - Robert Louis StevensonTravels with a Donkey - Robert Louis Stevenson
538

Read it and live it for yourself: The classic 19th century travelogue by the author of "Treasure Island" and "Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is the evergreen story of one man's 200-mile hike through the mountainous heart of France, and his love-hate relationship with his companion Modestine, a donkey with a personality as broad as the dramatic landscapes of the Languedoc and beyond.

In Laurence Phillips companion section, discover up-to-date reviews of dozens of places to eat, from the starched napkins of great restaurants to home cooked meals around a kitchen table; find plenty of hotels, guesthouses, campsites, even one of Stevenson's monasteries, on the original route:….

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Paris ConfidentialParis Confidential
540

For years, Garson Lazarre has been chronicling the lives of Paris' ex-pat community from his bar stool at a left bank cafe. After his mysterious disappearance, friends salvaged his journals - a fascinating, entertaining, sometimes hilarious, often touching account of the lives of the city's most unconventional characters. A witty and shrewd observation of the effects of living with fame.

Laurence Phillips, himself a veteran chronicler of French life and former Paris correspondent for radio and newspapers, takes many a gentle swipe at the contemporary obsession with celebrity, and pays occasional homage to Hollywood's heyday in this warm and satirical evocation of a city he has loved for a lifetime.

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Love & War in the Pyrenees - Rosemary Bailey (Paperback)Love & War in the Pyrenees - Rosemary Bailey (Paperback)
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After many years of living in the Pyrenees, Rosmary Bailey came to reallise how little she knew about the impact of the second world war on her community; indeed how little people wanted her to know….

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Love & War in the Pyrenees - Rosemary Bailey (Hardback)Love & War in the Pyrenees - Rosemary Bailey (Hardback)
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After many years of living in the Pyrenees, Rosmary Bailey came to reallise how little she knew about the impact of the second world war on her community; indeed how little people wanted her to know….

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The Man who Married a Mountain - Rosemary BaileyThe Man who Married a Mountain - Rosemary Bailey
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Following on from the success of Life in a Postcard, Rosemary Bailey sets of in search of the man who married a mountain. Henry Russell the 19th Century explorer, climbed every mountain in the Pyrenees and revelled in Nature's extremes. In the course of her quest Bailey finds not only Russell, but a whole host of visitors in tweed Jackets and Hobnailed boots striding up glaciers in search of the sublime, picturesque and beautiful….

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The Olive Tree - Carol DrinkwaterThe Olive Tree - Carol Drinkwater
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The Olive Tree charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set against a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time…. 'Charming and well written. As the olives ripen to a luscious dark-purply black, the reader is drawn into the peculiarities and joys of Provencal life' - Daily Mail

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The Olive Route - Carol DrinkwaterThe Olive Route - Carol Drinkwater
N005

In quest of its secrets and traditions, Carol embarked on a solo adventure round the Mediterranean basin. Transporting readers across the olive's ancient paths, celebrating its venerable past, tracking trade routes, unearthing unlikely stories, encountering people of today and bygone times. Carol comes full circle back to her farm in the sun-backed Provencal hills...
One cannot doubt or really resist, Drinkwater's courage and joie de vivre, not her enormous appetite and enthusiam she has for her subject - Daily Mail

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Escape to Provence - Maureen EmersonEscape to Provence - Maureen Emerson
N006

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….

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Labyrinth - Kate MosseLabyrinth - Kate Mosse
P172

July 1209: In Carcassonne a 17 year old girl is given a book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true grail.
July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees….
'Compelling….intriguing….passionate' Sunday Times

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Sepulchre - Kate MosseSepulchre - Kate Mosse
N002

1891 - Seventeen year old Leonie Vernier and her brother abandon paris for the santuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne., the Domaine de la Cade. But Leonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood…

'Mosse is a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination' Daily Telegraph

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Eighteen Hours with Capricious VioletteEighteen Hours with Capricious Violette
N001

Michael, an accomplished surgeon, finds himself adrift in mid-life. Seeking change and new horizons, he begins private French lessons with the enigmatic Violette from Normandy. As he explores the seductive capriciousness of the French language, he becomes intrigued by his equally seductive and capricious French mistress….

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Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes - Simon Calder & Mick WebbBackpacks, Boots and Baguettes - Simon Calder & Mick Webb
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High in the Pyrenees, a full days hike from any of the trappings of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of your life.

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French Women Don't Get FatFrench Women Don't Get Fat
B56

How do French women do it?
This is the book that unlocks the simple secrets of the "French paradox" - how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy……

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French Women For All Seasons - Mireille GuilianoFrench Women For All Seasons - Mireille Guiliano
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"More lifestyle than diet book, and, joy of joys, it does not start by banning caffeine and alcohol. As a guide for life this is entertaining and common sense" Daily Express.

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Teenager en Provence - Annie Le VoguerTeenager en Provence - Annie Le Voguer
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Anne's father announces his plans to move to the South of France during her school summer holidays, where she will finish her education in an International College. His relocation dream come true, her worst nightmare.

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A Year in the Merde - Stephen ClarkeA Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
P37

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"There are lots of French people who are not at all hypocritical, inefficient, treacherous, intolerant, adulterous or incredibly sexy...They just didn't make it into my book."

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Merde Actually - Stephen ClarkeMerde Actually - Stephen Clarke
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"Edgier than Bryson, hits harder than Mayle" The Times….

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Talk to the Snail - Stephen ClarkeTalk to the Snail - Stephen Clarke
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Making sure you get served in a café... Harassing French Estate Agents... Pronouncing French swear-words…

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For You There'll be No Crying - Hardback - Peter WhiteFor You There'll be No Crying - Hardback - Peter White
P170

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A work related tradgedy prompts Peter and Sue to give up life in England and retire to the tranquility of the French countryside…

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More More France Please - Helena Frith PowellMore More France Please - Helena Frith Powell
P38

What do you do when a semi-feral dog bites off the nose of a guest at your first French dinner ?…..

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Two Lipsticks & A Lover - Helena Frith PowellTwo Lipsticks & A Lover - Helena Frith Powell
P62

How do French women do it ? This is the book that reveals the simple secrets every French woman grows up with - how to achieve beauty without effort.

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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong - Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie BarlowSixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong - Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow
P31

What makes the French so French?
The French.... smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet have fewer heart problems and half the obesity rate of the British……

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Provence A - Z - Peter MayleProvence A - Z - Peter Mayle
B170

Organised from A-Z but far from a conventional work of reference, this is a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle has found in his twenty years there to be the most interesting, delicious or downright fun.

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Home and Dry in Normandy - George EastHome and Dry in Normandy - George East
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Hardback - When George East and his wife buy a derelict mill in Normandy with only an overdraft and negative equity to their names, they are aware that it will take more than luck to realise their dream of living the good life…..

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Rene & Me - George EastRene & Me - George East
P161

As financial disaster looms, our heroes seek sanctuary in France…and at the Mill of the Flea. Will they survive, or fall prey to the wiles of René Ribet, the notorious fox of Cotentin?…

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French Letters - George EastFrench Letters - George East
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French Letters continues the true life, if highly improbable adventures of George and Donella East at The Mill of the Flea.
Once again, we visit the innocents abroad at home in the tiny Normandy community where time is cheap, good friends are priceless, and reluctant tractors are brought to life with a shot of home-brewed and highly illicit applejack brandy…..

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French Flea Bites - George EastFrench Flea Bites - George East
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Millions of readers around the world have already enjoyed the Mill of the Flea books, and French Flea Bites is the fourth in the series.
At the start of a new millennium, we find the author re-thatching the roof of a giant muskrat’s lair as he ponders on his life in and around le moulin de la puce and the tiny Normany community of St Georges de……

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French Lessons - George EastFrench Lessons - George East
P145

He’s back and this time it’s really serious! For more than a decade, former failed rock legend, seamstress and pickled onion manufacturer George East…

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French Cricket - George EastFrench Cricket - George East
P04

At last! The eagerly-awaited fifth book in the Mill of the Flea series is finally out.
French Cricket tells the story of a long and eventful summer in Lower Normandy, with the author and his wife as ever struggling to make ends meet while George dreams up ever-more unlikely money-making schemes……

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French Kisses - George EastFrench Kisses - George East
P17

If anyone knows his onions about expatriate life in rural France, it is George East…..

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A Perfect Circle - Susie KellyA Perfect Circle - Susie Kelly
P77

Keen to discover some of France's lesser-known attractions, Susie Kelly, her husband Terry and their two dogs embarked on a 10,000 kilometre journey, where they encountered exploding gherkins, killer waves, chilli-flavoured chocolates and sinister submari….

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Two Steps Backward - Susie KellyTwo Steps Backward - Susie Kelly
P27

Susie Kelly and her husband Terry had long dreamed of owning a home in France, but ironically it wasn't until they were facing homeless penury in England…

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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry DarlingtonNarrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington
P92

"We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure......"

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Death in the Truffle Wood - Pierre MagnanDeath in the Truffle Wood - Pierre Magnan
P52

Banon is a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, where the local community's principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles…..

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The French Riviera - Ted JonesThe French Riviera - Ted Jones
P139

The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century…..

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A Summer in Gascony - Martin CalderA Summer in Gascony - Martin Calder
P152

A Summer in Gascony is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance with his fellow stagiaire Anja and a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine country, which endures to this day…..

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C'est La Folie - Michael WrightC'est La Folie - Michael Wright
B184

What do you do if you reach your thirties and still don’t feel grown-up? Why fritter away your life in front of a computer when you could be wielding manly power-tools? How do you learn to be a hero if you suspect you may be a wimp?

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Letters from Leonardo - Iain Wodehouse-EastonLetters from Leonardo - Iain Wodehouse-Easton
P119

Leonardo da Vinci spent his final years in France at the court of the young King Francois I in Amboise, in the Loire valley…

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French Spirits - Jeffrey GreeneFrench Spirits - Jeffrey Greene
P09

When Jeffrey Greene, a prize winning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery…

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Water Rites - Janet CarrollWater Rites - Janet Carroll
P140

Lily Weaver’s son was conceived in the last summer of love, 1970, in idyllic Achallat in rural France…

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The French Century - Brian MoynahanThe French Century - Brian Moynahan
P124

Hardback - This is a portrait of France and the French that sweeps over a century of history from 1900 to the present day…

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Café de ParisCafé de Paris
P118

Get in the mood with this superb collection of French Café music from famous artists like Edith Piaf…….

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Speak the Culture: France - Andrew WhittakerSpeak the Culture: France - Andrew Whittaker
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A guidebook can show you where to go, a language guide what to say when you get there. Only Speak the Culture: France will lead you to the nation’s soul…

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Vive La Rénovation! - Trevor MorrisVive La Rénovation! - Trevor Morris
P114

Trevor Morris, a self employed builder, his wife and their three cats move to South West France to create a new life and business…..

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A Chateau Of One's Own - Sam JuneauA Chateau Of One's Own - Sam Juneau
P106

It's the perfect read for anyone considering a grandiose home makeover project and for all of us who dream of a life in France…..

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Selling French Dreams - Alan BigginsSelling French Dreams - Alan Biggins
P14

Alan Biggins moved to France with his family to study French. The job he took to finance his studies, selling property to the British, has taken him behind the scenes of rural France….

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Au Revoir Angleterre - Making A Go of Moving Abroad: Paul Jenner & Christine SmithAu Revoir Angleterre - Making A Go of Moving Abroad: Paul Jenner & Christine Smith
P44

So life in Britain is getting you down. The rain, the bills, the daily grind. There's got to be something better surely ? Suppose you live abroad. Maybe Spain ? Or perhaps the South of France ? Or what about Greece ? Portugal ? Croatia ? You're certain….

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Arrazat's Aubergines - Patrick MoonArrazat's Aubergines - Patrick Moon
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Rich in truffles, oysters, olives and aubergines, the Languedoc is a gourmet's paradise, but is it the perfect place for an ambitious young chef to open a restaurant ?..

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Celtic Symbols: The Essential Guide: Clare Elizabeth BonnerCeltic Symbols: The Essential Guide: Clare Elizabeth Bonner
P108

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The origin and expression of the Celtic symbols is interestingly described by the author, who also examines the evolution of certain symbols, and how they have influenced artistic expression in modern times…..

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Another Long Day on the Piste - Will RandallAnother Long Day on the Piste - Will Randall
B180

Writer, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a calamitous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous….

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Crossing the Loire - Heidi Fuller-LoveCrossing the Loire - Heidi Fuller-Love
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"Wicked, witty and sometimes worrying - this is the perfect antidote to all those jolly Frenchman tales" FFP Profonde Publishing

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Savoie Fair - Dropping out and Fitting in: Caroline GuigonnetSavoie Fair - Dropping out and Fitting in: Caroline Guigonnet
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Savoie Fair is the real-life story of Caroline's life over the last 11 years in the Belleville valley - dropping out of the City of London and fitting in to a village in the French Alps….

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Instructions for Visitors - Helen StevensonInstructions for Visitors - Helen Stevenson
P101

Le village is a small town at the southernmost tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France…

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The Five of Cups - Wendy MewesThe Five of Cups - Wendy Mewes
P102

Zena hopes that a six month stay in Brittany will free her from the over-whelming sense of loss and regret at the end of a long-term relationship.
At 39, she can find a new direction in a foreign country ? Or will she remain locked in a spiral of mourning for the great love of her life ?……

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Life in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees - Rosemary BaileyLife in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees - Rosemary Bailey
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In 1988, Rosemary Bailey and her husband were travelling in the French Pyrenees when they fell in love with, and subsequently bought, a ruined medieval monastery, surrounded by peach orchards and snow capped peaks……

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Deep France, A Writer's Year in the Béarn - Celia BrayfieldDeep France, A Writer's Year in the Béarn - Celia Brayfield
P29

Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off…

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Radio Franglais - Nancy BoulicaultRadio Franglais - Nancy Boulicault
P166

A page turning plot sweeps you from French to English and back again....

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Almost French - Sarah TurnbullAlmost French - Sarah Turnbull
P49

A delightful new twist on the travel memoir…

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A Piano in the Pyrenees - Tony HawksA Piano in the Pyrenees - Tony Hawks
P84

Inspired by breathtaking views and romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys a house in the French Pyrenees…..

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Downhill All The Way - Edward EnfieldDownhill All The Way - Edward Enfield
P104

Fed up with questions about what he was going to do when he retired, Edward decided to get on his bicycle and ride from Le Havre……

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