Le Guide to Literature
General
A Disgraceful Affair by Bianca Lamblin (Northeastern University Press, £
Lamblin's account of her affair in 1940 with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Matisse's War by Peter Everett (Cape.£
A novel about the relationship of Louis Aragon to Henri Matisse from 1939-45
Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie (Sceptre £5.99)
Metroland by Julian Barnes (Picador £5.99)
The Girl at the Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage £5.99)
Fields of Glory by Jean Rouaud (Harville £6.99)
Of Illustrious Men (Harville £14.99)
The First Man by Albert Camus (Hamish Hamilton £14.99)
A Little Tour of France by Henry James (Penguin £6.99)
Essays by Montaigne (Penguin £6.99)
Living and Working in France by David Hampshire (Survival Books £10.95)
Can we afford the Bidet, A guide to setting up house in France by Elizabeth Morgan (Lennard Publishing)
Songs of the Troubadours by A Bonner (Allen and Unwin, London)1973
A Holiday History of France by Ronald Hamilton (Hogarth, London)1985
Roman France by Paul Mackendrick (Bell, London)1971
General Travel
Cross-Channel by Julian Barnes (Cape £13.99). Amusing selection of stories of Anglo-French themes
The Michelin Guides - Guides Verts
A Motor-flight through France by Edith Wharton(Picador £13)
Paris
Paris: A Literary Companion by Ian Littlewood (Murray £11.99)
Paris by Julian Green (Marion Boyars £12.95). A collection of fond memories of the city, where he was born in 1900.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Arrow £4.99)
Quartet by Jean Rhys (Penguin £5.99)
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys (Penguin £5.99)
Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell(Penguin £5.99)
Tales of the New Babylon by Rupert Christiansen (Minerva £20). The Spirit of the Belle Epoque.
Paris after the Liberation by Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin £8.99)
Paris Notebooks by Mavis Gallant (Hamish Hamilton £15.95)
Foriegn Correspondent by Peter Lennon (Picador £16.99)
Cote D'Azur
May We Borrow Your Husband by Graham Greene (Penguin £5.99)
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene (Penguin £5.99). Two stories, by the author who lived in the port of Antibes.
The Facts of Life by Somerset Maugham, who lived at Cap Ferrat.
The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly (Penguin USA £4)
Jigsaw by Sybil Bedford (Penguin £6.99)
The Villa Golitsyn by Pier Paul read (Sceptre £10.95)
The Statement by Brian Moore (Bloomsbury £14.99)
Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin £5.99)
Corsica
Granite Island by Dorothy Carrington (Penguin £7.99)
The Dream Hunters of Corsica by Dorothy Carrington (Phoenix £6.99)
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giorno (Harvill £8.99). Provence during the cholera epidemic of the 1830's.
Jean de Florette by Marcel Pagnol (Picador £6.99)
Manon des Sources by Marcel Pagnol (Picador £6.99)
Fanny by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson £6.99)
Marius by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson £3.75)
Cesar by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson £6.99)
Village in the Vaucluse by Laurence Wylie (Harvard £9.95)
Dictionnaire des Communes Vaucluse by Robert Bailly (Barthélemy, Avignon)1985
Guide de la Provence mysterieuse, by Jean-Paul Clebert (Tchou)1986
Old Provence by Theodore A Cook (Rivington, London)1905
The Carmargue by Carol Dix (Gollancz, London)1975
A Guide to Provence by Michael Jacobs (Viking, London)1988
Provence and the Côte D'Azur, (Phaidon, London)1986
Memoirs by Frederic Mistral (Arnold, London) 1907
Villages de Provence by Alaine Paire and Christian Sarramon (Rivages, Marseille)1984
Les Belles Heures du Pays d'Arles (Lafitte, Marseille)1984
Aspects of Provence by James Pope-Hennesey (Longman, London)1952
Two Towns in Provence by MJK Fisher
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Next Time Round in Provence by Ian Norrie (Aurum Press, London)1995
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 (BBC Publications) 1992
Life in and around a small village in the Languedoc
Les Landes
Therese by Francois Mauriac (Penguin £6.99)
The Frontenac Mystery by Francois Mauriac (Penguin £5.99)
Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (OUP £4.99)
Footsteps by Richard Holmes (Flamingo £7.99)
Next time round in Dordogne by Ian Norrie (due 1996).
Southern France
Three Rivers of France by Freda White (Pavillion £14.99)
The South of France (Cadogan Guides)
West of the Rhône by Freda White (Faber, London) 1964
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