Celia Imrie
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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'A delicious piece of entertainment' - The Times
'A very witty novel by a very witty woman. Hugely entertaining' - Julian Fellowes
'If you're not already on holiday reading this, it will make you want to pack your bags!' - Best
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Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
3) Sail away
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty - even for the former star of a 1980s TV series. So when she's offered the plum role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in Zurich, it seems like a godsend. Until, that is, the play is abruptly cancelled in suspicious circumstances, and Suzy is forced to take a job on a cruise ship to get home. Meanwhile Amanda Herbert...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers, and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in [the author's previous book] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold...
Author
Language
English
Description
"My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice." --
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1912 Nice, after Marcela's cruel, controlling husband disappears with their two young sons, she does everything in her power to find them until an era-defining disaster strikes, making a reunion seem impossible, in a novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic."--
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Peter Kingdom is a country solicitor whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough. But there's a secret sadness for the popular lawyer. His brother and business partner, Simon, has died but his body has never been found. Peter constantly searches for clues to the mystery surrounding Simon's death.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Witty and enchanting, the second novel from the well-loved actress and author of Not Quite Nice follows the hilarious exploits of retired expats in the South of France. Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets, lies the pretty town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer. Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat--including an enterprising team who plan to open a new restaurant. Snapping up a local...
13) Calendar girls
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memoralize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calender becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion. A moving tale of loss, determination, and the perils of...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Peter Kingdom represents the oddball people in the town of Market Shipborough, England. While trying to seek answers to the problems of everyone else, he continues to be overshadowed by the disappearance of his brother, who may or may not still be alive. Contains six episodes.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Respected country solicitor Peter Kingdom, with the assistance of his apprentice Lyle and secretary Gloria, runs a small legal practice in Market Shipborough for the eccentric people of Norfolk. Peter lives with his slightly crazy sister Beatrice, and recently lost his half-brother Simon under mysterious circumstances.
16) Love Sarah
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, nineteen-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi. These three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts, and differences to honor the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London store filled with love, hope, and colorful pastries...
Publisher
Real Women Make Waves
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children; an empty nester (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Combines Joan Anderson's first three books into a moving film." --
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate." --
20) Monster family
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her monster family together and uncover the secret of their curse."...