Books like French ways and their meaning by Edith Wharton

Peter Mayle shares the joys and quirks of settling into a 200‑year‑old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, Provence, exploring local customs, seasonal rhythms, and the region’s culinary delights.

Four modern French women share witty, practical insights on fashion, culture, and life’s pleasures, revealing how to live with a Parisian spirit anywhere.

Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A guide for women on creating a stylish wardrobe with just 10 basic pieces of clothing.

Learn to infuse everyday tasks with style and grace, drawing on French etiquette and practical home‑management tips from Jennifer Scott’s experience as Madame Chic’s apprentice and later California homemaker.