A House in the Sunflowers: An English Family's Search for Their Dream House in France |
 Ruth Silvestre
ISBN: 074900259X
In 1976, in the Lot-et-Garonne region of south-west France, Ruth Silvestre and her family found Bel-Air de Grezelongue, a house that had been uninhabited for 10 years. This is the story of their love affair with that house and the surrounding community. |
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A Piano in the Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains |
 Tony Hawks
ISBN: 0091902673
If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick? I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces...(read more) |
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Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes: A Walk in the Pyrenees |
 Simon Calder, Mick Webb
ISBN: 0753509024
Simon Calder, an enthusiastic fan of this spectacular mountain range and, being a keen walker, delights in the well-plotted hiking routes that traverse the region. Along with friend and colleague, BBC radio producer Mick Webb, he steps out to conquer...(read more) |
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Life in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees |
 Rosemary Bailey
ISBN: 0553813412
Life in a Postcard tells how a couple were travelling in the French Pyrenees in 1988 when they were smitten with a crumbling medieval monastery which they later bought. Surrounded by peach orchards and snow-capped peaks, the area was rich with traces...(read more) |
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Moondrop to Gascony |
 Anne Marie Walters
ISBN: 0955720818
On a cold, moonlit night in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just 20 years old, parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in preparation for the long-awaited Allied invasion. The daughter of a British father and a French mother, she...(read more) |
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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 Man Who Married a Mountain |
 Rosemary Bailey
ISBN: 0553815237
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Toulouse the Mystic City of France |
 H. Spencer Lewis
ISBN: 1417935383
Toulouse has been associated in the minds of occultists with mysticism to such an extent that in the Masonic Scottish Rites there is a mystical, mythical character know as the Knight of Toulouse. |
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