STAND-UP comedian Ian Moore has his feet either side of the Channel, his work takes him to UK towns and cities, while his family life is firmly settled in France. It is this contrasting lifestyle, as well as his love of the mod culture, that lies at the heart of... Read more →
French farmyard tales for younger readers
A FARMYARD in north western France is the backdrop for Susan Keefe's second book, which tells the tale of Billy and Daisy's Big Adventure on Amazon. The book is the first in a new series of children's Kindle ebooks, titled Fantasy Farm Tales that promise to tell the stories found... Read more →
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A road that leads to France, interview with Greg Mose
Author Greg Mose has travelled widely but is now settled in the LotMANY people dream of moving to France and writing a book, Greg Mose has done just that. Whilst starting and running a gite business, near Montcabrier in the Lot, with his wife, he also worked on weaving a... Read more →
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Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier
JUST before I set off for my return to France a friend said I should read Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier. He gave me his copy to pack away in one of the boxes I loaded up into the car and once I’d arrived in the Dordogne countryside I started... Read more →
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Ian Walthew, author of A Place In My Country
WHY would the marketing director of one of the word's most famous newspapers give it all up to move to the Cotswolds, and then leave that corner of England behind to head to the Auvergne? For Ian Walthew there were a number of complicated reasons but deep down he knew... Read more →
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Discovering the life of the Quercy Blanc
THE rocky outcrops of the Quercy Blanc region and the deep reds of the wines of Cahors are the underlying elements of a corner of France many people may drive past when heading to the Mediterranean coast. But author Amanda Lawrence stopped and used the area as the setting for... Read more →
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A poetic look over the sands of time
JACQUELINE Karp-Gendre has lived in France for over 30 years, writes Beryl Brennan. She speaks French and Spanish like a native, as well as a smattering of Arabic. Her mother was a journalist, so writing is in her blood, and she never travels without a notebook and pen. "People I... Read more →
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Vive la Rénovation with Trevor Morris
MOST builders are happy to put their feet up after a hard day on site carrying bricks and mixing cement, but for Trevor Morris his day job has become his writing muse. His experience of running a building company in the Tarn region of South West France is the back... Read more →
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Interview with Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre
THE bloody history of medieval Carcassone was brought to life in the international best-selling book Labyrinth. And now its author Kate Mosse takes us back to the south west with her latest book Sepulchre, a tale from the dark woods of the Corbières involving ghosts, murder and tarot cards. Here... Read more →
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Interview with Vicki Archer author of My French Life
WHEN an email landed in my inbox asking if I was interested in finding out more about a book called My French Life, I thought with a title like that how could I resist? So I quickly arranged an interview with the book's author Vicki Archer, and asked for a... Read more →
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