“The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel” by Frank Frost is now available for purchase

“Now the whole basin of Barigoule was visible in the late afternoon, the crest of the great plateau of Vaucluse to the north and west, lower hills to the east, the little hill of Barigoule with its chateau to the south, surrounded by the houses of the village, and farther along, the sloping basin below the town, cloaked with wheat and hemmed by the surrounding hills that narrowed into the gorges of the Veroncle. The light was beautiful on the hills and the buildings below and as usual he didn’t have his camera with him.”
– an excerpt from the book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel” by Frank Frost. The history of the author’s region inspired him to write this masterpiece, about a terrifying ancient religious curse that is five hundred years old and still active today. This book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Franks Frost is a professor emeritus of ancient Greek history and archaeology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a cook, a working jazz pianist, a former rugby player, and a novelist.
His Greek Society has been in print for 45 years, through five editions, and still pays royalties. Frank and his wife Amanda split their time between Santa Barbara and Provence, where he is compiling a cookbook.
The author’s first novel was The Succession, which is about political assassination and a president on the run. His next novel, Dead Philadelphians, was listed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review among the best fiction of 1999: “Wonderful taut, flexible prose, not a word wasted…a compulsive page-turner.”
“The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel” presents a horrific massacre of more than 3,000 “heretics” in southern France that occurred in April 1545.
In one small village, twenty-five women and children hid in a secret grotto in the hills above town. But they were betrayed. Royal and papal troops built a fire in the mountains of the grotto and murdered them all by suffocation. So much is an established historical fact.
“The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel” by Frank Frost is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/the-grottos-of-barigoule.