Ted Jones’ launch at Cannes

Following the success of the hard cover version of his book The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Ted Jones launched the paperback edition at Cannes on the 17th November 2007. The photo shows Ted (centre) with illustrator Bernard Payet and clients at the launch signing. More details can be found on Ted Jones' webite.

The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones

The sunlight and the calm of the French Riviera have drawn countless writers into its embrace: the Cote d’Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The French Riviera offers a literary tour of the region, covering the lives and work of the writers who found inspiration there – from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there; through those writers whose work it dominates such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant; to those who simply lingered there.

Ted Jones’ encyclopaedic work covers them all, including Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, JG Ballard, Simone de Beauvoir, Bertholt Brecht, Albert Camus, Casanova, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, TS Eliot, Andre Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, DH Lawrence, AA Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, PG Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf and WB Yeats amongst many others.

The French Riviera: A Literary Guide For Travellers may be ordered from Amazon or from the publisher I.B. Tauris.