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TRIGGER WARNING: fertility worries Emma and Mark quit their jobs and head to France, buying a chateau to renovate for events. The pair are also desperate for a child and haunted by medical issues from the past. Can they find happiness or is their dream out of reach? The French Chateau Escape is a warm […]

A relaxing Munro-bagging in Scotland turns to murder. Fiona MacLeish is enjoying a mountain excursion with friends when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Her team meet up with aother on the way back down but one of tthem is severely injured and Fiona is convinced it was a dleibertae attack. The group […]

Oops I did it again! I bought a bag of lemons with no plan except pancakes and haven’t got round to making them! Instead I needed a quick lunchtime meal so got experimental (once again…) Ingredients (serves 2 alongside a salad or garlic bread) 1 tablespoon oil 1 onion, finely diced 1 garlic clove, finely […]

France 1562, Minou Joubert. Piet The Burning Chambers This is a loooong book. Most of the book is written in the third person to show Minou and Piet’s experiences. The nds of some chapters give a first person narrartibe of a woman who has a serious agenda. She has betrayed her husband and has a […]

1938, Nora heads to Paris to train to be a chef. Her friend Sabine is pregnant but forced to move to Alsace due to family issues. 1964, Iris discovers she is adopted and wants to find out the truth about her birth mother. The Last Train From Paris is a dual timeline book set in […]