Books About France

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This first 'travel fusion' book of a series launches an exciting new genre in general literature.

'French Impressions - Brittany' contains everything you have ever wanted to know about that fascinating region - and more - in a book.

Read about the crepe throwing champion of all France, the celtic history of the region, the myths and legends and the surprising links Brittany has with Welsh, Irish and Scotts culture and the English language.

George East is the founder (and only) member of the George East For The Nobel Prize for Writing Committee. He spends his year living halfway up what counts as a mountain in Brittany, venturing forth to research the history, culture and (mostly) bars and restaurants of other regions of France for new books.

For a full biography, please visit George East - Author Page.

'Norman's Folly' outlines a process that many of us may have thought about engaging with: a lifestyle change in a new country.

Having questioned their daily routine in the UK and found it wanting, the Norman family made the brave decision to relocate to France.

Clare Norman left her comfortable life in the UK in 2009 with her husband and 16 year old son to start a new life as peasant farmers in the French Pyrenees. This is her story of the family's introduction to French rural life and the challenges of combining a "Grand Designs" scale building project with a "Good Life" lifestyle.

When Coca-Cola entered the French market with a hard-core bottom-line management style, they were met with boycotts in cafés and supermarkets.

At the launch of EuroDisney in Paris, Mickey Mouse was greeted by angry protesters hurling tomatoes and eggs.

GILLES ASSELIN is founder and president of SoCoCo Intercultural, a training and consulting firm specializing in European-American relations. Born and raised in France, Gilles has lived and worked in Africa and the U.S.

RUTH MASTRON is vice president of SoCoCo Intercultural, and was formerly a liaison for overseas operations for various international corporations. Ruth has lived and worked in England and France, and currently resides in California with her French husband and two bilingual cats.

A spring night in Paris. The most beautiful city in the world is dark and silent.Uncertainty devils the air. As does normality: War time normality.

The Nazi flag flutters from the Eiffel Tower. The Parisians are huddled indoors. Suddenly the night's stillness is shattered by sirens and excited voices. For days foul smoke has been pouring from the chimney of an uninhabited house close to the Avenue des Champs-Elysées.

Marilyn Z.Tomlins is a freelance journalist. She lives and works in Paris, France.

I first became aware of Karen Wheeler when I stumbled across her Blog, Tout Sweet, last summer while surfing the web for items connected to rural France.

This was just prior to the publication of her first book, also entitled Tout Sweet, which I read as soon as it was available.

I was instantly drawn into Karen’s story of how she relocated to a village in the Poitou-Charentes and started building a new life there.

With the publication of her second book, Toute Allure, the story continues and, as well as the familiar characters, we are also introduced to new ones such as the stuck up Annabelle and her two

WALNUT WINE AND TRUFFLE GROVES is a culinary travel book that invites readers to pull up a chair and visit the Dordogne the way it should be visited…one bite at a time.

Join author Kimberley Lovato and Chef Laura Schmalhorst as they navigate the back roads, as well as the menus and markets, with newfound excitement and a fork and knife!

Kimberley Lovato is a freelance journalist and author specializing in lifestyle and travel writing, with a heaping spoonful of culinary curiosity on the side.

Her love of French language, food, and lifestyle inspired her to write a culinary travel book, Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves, about the Dordogne region of France. The book was released by Running Press in April 2010.

The great day has finally arrived and it is time to announce the winner of the draw for the review copy of, Toute Allure, that those very nice people at Summersdale have sent to us.

We assigned a number to each of the applicants and put those numbers in a hat.

However, choosing a winner was complicated. Pulling a piece a paper from an old straw hat didn't really have the style and class that we were looking for.

Not exactly the stuff Oscars ceremonies are made of!

So, I hastily built a random number generator out of bits of an alien spacecraft that had crashed in the garden a few weeks before and tried again.

The original story of falling for France, Perfume from Provence was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller.

Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king’s librarian and archivist and famous historian of the British Army.

Born in 1888, Winifred Fortescue gave up her career on the stage after marriage and founded a successful fashion and interior design business.

She later began writing articles for The Times and Punch, and inaugurated a woman’s page for The Morning Post. She wrote seven books, of which Perfume from Provence was the first.

Hugo Soskin, son of best-selling author on Rennes-le-Château Henry Lincoln, has no time for the French Pyrenean village and its mysteries.

He is fed up with the whole subject of how a nineteenth-century priest came to be a millionaire overnight and why he built so many bizarre clues into his church and his home.

Hugo Soskin lives in Gloucestershire and has been a bookseller and nursery manager, as well as having worked in bars in Spain and as a chef in France.

‘It had been so amazingly hot that I felt myself about to dissolve into a kind of crème brûlée on the road, so I bought some super-power Number 8 suncream.

This had the word Bronzante on it, and must have contained some dye or other chemical because my knees stayed brown until February.’

A former local government officer, Edward Enfield is now a writer and television presenter. He is the father of comedian Harry Enfield and author of the bestselling Greece on my Wheels and Downhill All the Way. He has been a columnist for The Oldie magazine since 1992, has written for publications including the Daily Express, The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph, and has appeared on television in Watchdog, the BBC's Holiday programme, Points of View and The Heaven and Earth Show. He lives in West Sussex.

Sam and Bud were ordinary first-time homebuyers in their early thirties.

Their intention, in moving to France, was to create a simple life in a place where they could spend time with their children.

The home they actually bought was a 17th century chateau in the Loire valley with over thirty rooms.

Sam Juneau was born in New Orleans and has been a television producer and writer in the US and the UK since 1992. His wife grew up on a farm in Ireland. They live in France with their four children and 22 cats.

I was waiting impatiently when I heard the postman arrive à chez nous.

"Was it letters, bills or..... a parcel for me?" I asked myself.

Then I heard a 'clink' of keys and I knew that it was something bigger than a letter being placed inside the letter box!

"Yes" I exclaimed to myself and I opened the post box to find that the long awaited new Karen Wheeler book, Toute Allure, had finally arrived!

This is the follow on from her very successful first book, Tout Sweet, and I couldn't wait to read it!!

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of reading 'Tout Sweet', the story started when Karen decided the time had come to leave dear old Grand Bretagne and find pastures new.

Those nice, nice people at Summersdale, publishers of Karen Wheeler's new novel, Toute Allure, have very kindly sent us a review copy.

As Karen sent us a copy herself, we have decided to offer the spare copy to any visitor to Books About France for free.

There is, of course, a catch!

All we ask is that the lucky recipient of the free copy of Toute Allure writes us a little review (perhaps about 200 words), that we can publish here. We will, of course, link back to your own website or blog (should you have one) when your review is published.

We are currently busy contacting Publishers and Authors and hope that this is the first of many great giveaways here at Books About France.

Driving in France - your complete guide to planning your trip, the best routes, the rules of the road and the French you need to know. This indispensable guide tells you everything you need to know about motoring in France. From the new regulations about essential driving equipment, to the most beautiful drives in France, it is packed with information and inspiration to help you plan your next trip.

A visit to a flea market can be the highlight of a trip to France: a lively encounter with everyday French culture, an exciting way to spend a few hours, and a chance to pick up a unique souvenir or add to a collection. The Flea Markets of France is the indispensable tool for getting the most out of your visit, whether you're a first-time visitor or an experienced shopper. Conversational and comprehensive, this guide will tell you everything you need to know about exploring markets all over France.

An enticing collection of self-catering places that opens doors to the delights of travel in France. From ancient manor houses with designer interiors set in rolling countryside to studio pieds à terre in Paris. With around 400 places the best of France is here.

Special Places to Stay: French Vineyards is a guide that will be irresistible to wine-loving Francophiles. The French wine industry has survived the New World's invasion of the market and its estates - many of which are run by artisan producers - continue to produce a variety and quality of wine that holds its place in our affections. The writer and researcher, Patrick Hilyer, owns a restaurant in northern France and has found owners who combine wine production with unbeatable hospitality.

The first of the Special Places series, this established guide is a bestseller. With its huge variety and range of good value places to stay, it's an indispensable guide for those traveling round France. Special places from all over France are included, including ski chalets and seaside homes, châteaux and farmhouses – a collection honed over many years.

Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consumed in the comfort of your own home as a good read. Taken together, the twenty-five essays of which the book is composed, amount to a portrait of the region, of its history, it's landscape, its people, and the way they relate to one another and France as a whole. It is an introduction for visitors and new residents to the Brittany most tourists never see, not simply a litany of classic tourist attractions, but a celebration of the happenstance of travel, the chance encounters and oddities that crop up when we're wandering around, not quite aimlessly, but ready to enjoy whatever we find, even if it wasn't precisely what we were looking for in the first place.