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A.D.G. J'ai déjà donné… A man learns about the death of his old friend Machin and inherits a manuscript titled "J'ai déjà donné" in which Machin relates his adventures before he went into exile. Mixes black humour, puns, neologisms and poetry.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £11.15
Abécassis, A. Au secours, il veut m'épouser! Déborah, heroine of "Tribulations d'une jeune divorcée" is back with her crazy friends, daughters and internet fiancé in tow!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.99
Abécassis, A. Soirée sushi Rebecca and her friends, all recently divorced, agree to meet once a week for sushi and gossip.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.75
Abécassis, A. Toubib or not toubib A doctor suffering from a lack of confidence consults a psychiatrist who recommends hypnosis but there is a glitch in the process and she becomes endowed with superpowers - telepathy, telekinesis and an impressive memory - with hilarious results.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.85
Abécassis, E. Une affaire conjugale BESTSELLER. Agathe and Jérôme fell madly in love. They married, had twins and lived together for eight years. But now everything has changed. She is hardly able to work and he spends less and less time at home. Is it time to call it a day and get a divorce?
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99
Abécassis, E. Et te voici permise à tout homme BESTSELLER. Divorcee Anna has finally found her soulmate. However according to Jewish tradition she has not yet been set free by her former husband. The story of a woman torn between a new love and her religion.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99
Abécassis, E. Mère et fille, un roman A story about love, possession, admiration and emancipation through the destiny of a mother and daughter. From the author of "Un heureux événement."
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95
Abecassis, E. Sépharade (2009). Esther Vidal is born in France to Moroccan Jewish parents, a mixed identity that she struggles with throughout her youth. She moves to Israel to get married, and begins to discover her family history and religious heritage.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.10
Abner Assoun, Y.B. Bugsy Pinsky contre le complot Juif A comedy described by the author as 'the first antisemitic novel about antisemitism'. Following a botched armed robbery, Bugsy Pinsky goes to jail as a practising Jew but leaves as a Muslim. A farcical tale about extremism, culture and religion.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.30
Achache, C. La Plage de Trouville The narrator receives a call from an employee at the Beaubourg museum and discovers that a painting was stolen from her family by the Nazis during the Second World War. The revelation forces her to explore a past which she fears.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.99
Adam, O À l'abri de rien Bestseller. Marie's life doesn't seem to have a purpose. One day she takes up voluntary work serving food to illegal immigrants and things take a different turn… Nominated for the Prix Goncourt.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.50
Adam, O. Le cœur régulier Unable to cope with life following the suicide of her brother, Sarah heads to a small village in Japan. It was here that her brother said he had found peace and a man called Natsume who attempts to dissuade people from taking their own lives.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.55
Adam, O. Des vents contraires BESTSELLER. After his wife, Sarah, disappears without trace, Paul is left alone with his two children. In an attempt to cope with the loss, still as acute a year after her departure, he moves away from Paris. The latest novel from this popular author.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.35
Adam, P. Les centenaires A comic and absurd novel set in a retirement home where the pensioners make the rules and break all the taboos and expectations associated with their age.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.45
Adam, P. Jours de chance Sometimes they win, more often they lose, and yet they continue to play because next time could be the big win. The one which will change their lives forever.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.50
Adam, P. Ton petit manège Twelve entertaining short stories in which the characters are all running or escaping from something.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.50
Adely, E. Mon amour A portrait of relationships
New Fiction. Price: £20.80
Ader, R. Regardez dans la fêlure The first novel from Raphaël Ader, a journalist and writer, who started this book as a semi-autobiographical blog. Aged thirty-six, the life of the narrator seems empty and frozen until he decides to dedicate himself to literature.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £13.65
Aeschimann, E. Dieu n'existe pas encore Set in the 1970s, the son of a Jewish minister believes that the world can exist without nationality and religion. But his values and his life change dramatically as war in Iraq breaks out.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.45
Aggoune, H. Premières heures au paradis A young French comedian prepares to go to Rio de Janeiro to act in a film by David Lynch which stirs up powerful emotions in him as he re-lives and reminisces his past.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £15.75
Aggoune, H. Rêve 78 Our narrator contemplates a snapshot taken of him as a child with his mother in the summer of 1978. Separated due to her enforced exile in Algeria, he considers their relationship, his authoritarian father and becoming a father himself.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £12.95
Aguzou, C. Printemps A series of events leads a woman who is planning to direct a film about the Amazons to spend a night with a young man in a lorry. Memorable anecdotes and burlesque conversations ensue.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95
Alard, N. Le crieur de nuit A novel following a young woman's reaction to her father's death.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.75
Alexakis, V. Ap.J.-C. Winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de L'Académie Française 2007. A novel exploring early Christian myths.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95
Alexakis, V. Je t'oublierai tous les jours An ageing man recounts events both global and personal to a mystery woman, later revealed as his mother. Touching novel from a former Médicis winner.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.50
Alonso, C. Alice au pays des trop vieilles Alice is 40 years old. She may lie about her age sometimes but she is not that old! However her boss disagrees and he fires her from a magazine to be replaced by a younger and "hipper" girl.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.15
Amette, J-P. Un été chez Voltaire From the prize-winning author of "La Maîtresse de Brecht". Summer 1761. The playwright Voltaire has gathered a troope of Italian actors to rehearse in his château…
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £15.95
Ananissoh, T. Un reptile par habitant School teacher Narcisse is wrongly implicated in a suspected coup d'état plot. Beautifully crafted second novel from Togolese author.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £13.65
Ananissoh, T. Ténèbres à midi Théo is an African author invited to dinner at the home of Éric Bamezon, advisor to the President. Over the course of the evening, Théo realises that far from being happy Eric is trapped in a complicated world of politics and corruption.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.45
Ancion, N. Écrivain cherche place concierge A young writer takes a job in a château concierge thinking the peace of the countryside will allow him to write, but he's unprepared for the drama that unfolds…
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £11.95
Angot, C. Le marché des amants A woman falls in love with a French singer but is also attracted by a journalist. An autobiographical novel on love, prejudice and the malaise in contemporary French society.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.55
Angot, C. Les petits The idyllic life of a couple is deconstructed by the introduction of children into the family.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99
Angot, C. Rendez-vous Christine Angot is known for her confessional writing. In her latest, Christine meets an actor and starts a new affair. A novel about theatre, passion and literature.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.50
Appanah, N. Le dernier frère Prix du Roman FNAC 2007. The story of a flight of Jewish refugees expelled from Palestine in 1940 and deported to Mauritius, then a British colony. Shortlisted for the Prix Fémina and the Prix Médicis
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.25
Apperry, Y. Terre sans maître A novel about the loss of memory as a man in his thirties climbs a mountain to reach the Wall and gradually discovers where he comes from. By the author of "Diabolus in musica" and "Farrago," winners of the prix Médicis and prix Goncourt des lycéens.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.25
Arché, D. Dans la fuite incessante Johanna leaves her home, her husband, her job, her quiet but incomplete life behind her for a beach on the North Sea where she reflects on her desire for a child.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95
Arditi, M. Loin des bras At the Alderson Institute, a rich boarding school in Switzerland, every one has a secret, from collaboration with the Nazis to hidden love affairs.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.65
Arditi, M. La Pension Marguerite While on tour in Paris, a violinist receives a bundle of letters which may hold the key to his mother's suicide five years earlier.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £14.90
Arditi, M. Le Turquetto Winner of the Prix Jean Giono 2011. Historical novel set in Constantinople and Venice in the early 16th Century.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Arditi, M. Victoria-Hall A mysterious letter dated 1910 falls into the hands of an antiquarian bookseller in Prague. It reveals a meeting between Kafka and Proust…
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £8.70
Arène, P. Contes de Provence Short lyrical stories inspired by Provence.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.55
Arès, B. Ne pas digérer A faceless "being" searches for his lost voice and on his journey meets characters who bring him closer to and distance him from his quest. Beautifully written.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.30
Arnaud, C. Qu'as-tu fait de tes frères? 12-year-old Claude struggles to make himself noticed amongst his gifted brothers. Then 1968 arrives and the revolutionary wave carries Claude from his home into a whole new world, whilst his family falls apart.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.35
Arnothy, C. Donnant, donnant Hélène leaves France to try her luck in America with her young son. Through contacts she finds work in the film business and marries a script writer.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.90
Arnothy, C. Une Rentrée littéraire A bankrupt editor agrees to publish a young writer on one condition…
New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £17.99
Arnothy, C. Une valse à Vienne The men and women in this book all share a taste for revenge. They disguise their treachery and deception with airs and graces but revel in making others dance for them. But can they all still appreciate a Viennese waltz?
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95
Arnothy, C. La vie, d'une manière ou d'une autre Alice is attacked at the Ambassador's house in Paris. Her assault is covered up for fear of political scandal and even her aunt tries to keep the attack a secret.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.15
Assayas, M. Faute d'identité A man discovers that he has been refused a new French passport, despite having lived in France his whole life, because he is unable prove his parent's nationality. This brings him face to face with his roots.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Assouline, P. Les invités A guest at an upper class Parisian dinner party drops out at the last minute, meaning there are to be thirteen people around the table. Superstition calls for a fourteenth guest to be invited, a maid of Maghreb descent, with unexpected consequences.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.45
Assouline, P. Le portrait The fascinating story of an enigmatic portrait of Betty de Rothschild exhibited in a number of aristocratic houses before being stolen by Goering in WW2. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.20
Aubry, G. Personne: Roman PRIX FEMINA 2009. The narrator pieces together tales of her childhood based on the diaries of her mentally-ill father, now deceased.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £12.95
Audeguy, S. Nous autres After learning of the death of a father he never knew, a son travels to Kenya where he discovers he will not be allowed to fulfil his father's last will: to be buried in Kenya. He embarks on a journey to find answers.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.55
Audouard, A. L'Arabe The arrival of a stranger in a small village in South-West France exposes ancient communal tensions and provokes an explosion of racism. When a murder is committed in the village, the Arab is instantly accused.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.70
Avril, N. Dernière mise en scène An actress suffering from amnesia returns to the scene of the car accident to discover who she was.
New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £20.95
Awumey, E. Les pieds sales Askia is a Parisian taxi driver. Originally from Africa, he is searching for his father whom he believes to be in Paris.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.35
Azoulai, N. Une ardeur insensée Odile begins taking drama classes and thus embarks on a journey of self-discovery, realising bit by bit the false nature of the relationships in her life.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.30
Azzeddine, S. La Mecque-Phuket Two sisters from the Paris suburbs decide to pay for their parents to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. However when they go to the travel agents, they give into tempation and buy tickets for Phuket where they discover another life.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.35
Azzeddine, S. Mon père est femme de ménage Fourteen year old Paul has a difficult family, no love life and no plans for his future. Yet two things illuminate his life — his stay-at-home father and his love of writing.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.99
Baby, Y. Le troisième ciel Both homeless and completely lost after the tragic disappearance of both their families, Sonia and Augustin meet on the streets. They decide to join forces and begin to gradually enjoy life again, he as a cabinet maker, she as a writer.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.35
Bachi, S. Amours et aventures de Sinbad le Marin Sinbad the sailor is reborn in modern-day Algeria. He roams Europe selling trinkets. One day, he becomes friends with the 'Sleeper', to whom he tells his lost quest for happiness.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.10
Bachi, S. Les Douze contes de minuit Short stories from Algeria.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £18.70
Bachi, S. Le silence de Mahomet Recounting the life of the prophet Mahomet seen by four different characters - his first wife Khadija, his best friend Abou Bakr, the general Khalid and his partner Aicha at nine years old.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.70
Bacqué, F. Celle qui détricotait la vie After the brutal murder of her best friend, Florence begins to untwine the 'knitting' of her life with the aid of a faith healer. A mature third novel from Bacqué dealing with the self-contemplation of a forty something woman.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95
Baillon, A. Un homme si simple Baillon was a café-owner, journalist, hen salesman…but everywhere he failed. A simple man? A novel on madness, and the first signs of mental illness.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.75
Bailly, P. Polichinelle A story about a group of young people who kill time by drinking, smoking and listening to rap music. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.55
Baldwin-Beneich, D. Le sérieux des nuages After living in America for decades, Maxime Odradek is talked into returning to France by his friend Diane, so that they can pay their respects to their old philosophy teacher. At his funeral, Maxime meets many faces from the past, including his first, and abandoned love.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.30
Barbe, G. Aimer Roger Jane, who wants to be an actress, is seventeen when she falls in love with Roger, a director. Ten years later when they are colleagues, friends and occasional lovers, Roger decides to declare his love.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.65
Barberis, D. Beau Rivage At the end of summer, Franck and his wife move into a hotel overlooking a mountain lake so that he can finish writing his thesis. However their peace is disturbed by the arrival of another guest, Serge.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.99
Barbéris, D. Quelque chose à cacher A woman's body is found in the family property near the Loire river.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.35
Barbery, M. L'Élégance du hérisson Fascinating novel told from the alternative points of view of a concierge in an affluent Parisian apartment building and a twelve year-old girl who lives there.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.45
Barrière, L. Le chœur des enfants khmers Written through the eyes of a Cambodian brought up in France who develops a strong bond with a young man alive during the time of the Khmers. Together they re-discover their ravaged country. Inspired by the memoires of Rotha M., a Khmer born in 1972.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95
Baruk, S. Naître en français Touching description of an itinerant childhood in Iran and Lebanon.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.25
Bassignac, S. Les aquariums lumineux In a Parisian apartment block, Clare observes her neighbours day and night. Her life seems perfectly well-ordered until the day she meets a Japanese man who becomes her obsession.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.25
Bassignac, S. Dos à dos Arnaud turns up in the middle of the night at his estranged parents' house. When Arnaud flees after revealing he is a wanted man, his father sets off on his trail, only to discover that he knows nothing about his own child.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.80
Bassignac, S. A la recherche d'Alice Inspector Picasso is trying to find out what drove Alice Conque to tie up a famous photo journalist in her bathtub. Alice, a temperamental blonde fascinated by scupture, shows him anonymous letters and, troubled, he decides to get more involved.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.80
Bataille, C. Le rêve de Machiavel The plague is everywhere in Florence and without knowing why, Machiavelli saves a young, ill woman from a fire. An enigmatic and powerful novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.10
Bauchau, H. Le boulevard périphérique Whilst visiting his step-daughter during his struggle against cancer, the narrator recalls his childhood friend who became a member of the Resistance and was found dead in suspicious circumstances.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.90
Bauchau, H. Déluge Florence moves to a small harbour town in the South of France where she meets notorious artist Florian, renowned for burning his own art work. A strange and delicate friendship forms between the two.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.65
Baudis, D. Les amants de Gibraltar Historical fiction set in Seventh Century Constantinople. Emperor Justinien II and his trusted advisor Angelos plot to protect the city from Arab advances.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.45
Begag, A. Dites-moi bonjour The new novel from the author of the best-selling 'Le Gone du Chaaba'. A philosophical tale where the narrator meets his guiding light and forges his path through life, meeting those who help and those who hinder him on his way.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.80
Bégaudeau, F. Vers la douceur A portrait of a generation shown through Jules, a single thirty something journalist. A witty and sensitive novel from the author (and star) of 'Entre les murs'.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.85
Behar, T. Coups bas et talons hauts A romantic comedy telling the adventures and love life of a glamorous woman working in public relations. Highly entertaining and a pleasure to read!
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.70
Beigbeder, F. Au secours pardon Octave Parango (from the hit "99 Francs') is back! This time he is trawling the streets of Moscow to find a beautiful woman to incarnate the face of the cosmetics giant he works for.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.75
Beigbeder, F. L'égoïste romantique Oscar Dufresne is 34 years old. He writes a diary for a newspaper and hopes his life will become as exciting as in his column!
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.95
Beigbeder, F. Un roman français (2009). PRIX RENAUDOT 2009. BESTSELLER. An autobiographical novel by Frédéric Beigbeder about identity, family and childhood.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95
Beigbeder, G. Sponsors Two Parisian film makers embark on a voyage of discovery to post-Milosevic Serbia.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.70
Beinstingel, T., et al Seize nouvelles A collection of texts from sixteen contemporary French authors in hommage to ten years of the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £15.85
Belaiche-Daninos, P Les 76 jours de Marie-Antoinette à la Conciergerie: La Conjuration de l'Oeillet The plot to free Queen Marie-Antoinette told here with great accuracy thanks to extensive archival research. Prix Jacques de Fouchier de l'Académie française 2006.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £12.95
Bello, A. Enquête sur la disparition d'Émilie Brunet Achille Dunot is an ex-police inspector who retired after an accident left him partially amnesiac, wiping out his most recent memories. A friend asks him for help with the disappearance of Emilie Brunet, who is also his lover.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.60
Bello, A. Les Falsificateurs An employee tries to get to the bottom of the activities of a secret international organisation, the CFR, which falsifies reality. An ambitious and enjoyable thriller.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.65
Ben Jelloun, T. Au pays A retired immigrant worker relives his years spent in France and decides to return to his native village and build a big house for his family. Somewhere between realism and fantasy, the book is evocative of the experience of being uprooted.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.85
Ben Jelloun, T. Par le feu On 17th December 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight, setting in motion a chain of revolutions across the Arab world. This short, poetic piece of fiction recreates the days leading up to his sacrifice.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £10.50
Ben Jelloun, T. Partir A novel about the vision of exile. From a seafront café in Tangiers, a group of students dream about Spain, whose coast is visible in the distance. One of them decides to leave…
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.60
Ben Jelloun, T. Sur ma mère BESTSELLER A victim of Alzheimer's, the mother recounts significant events during her life to her son, from her three marriages to her wanderings in Morocco between 1930-1940.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.95
Benacquista, T. Homo erectus A group of men meet regularly to tell each other about their love lives. They do not judge each other or comment, they just listen.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.00
Benacquista, T. Malavita encore The Blake family are under surveillance from the FBI. The father has published his memoirs from his days in the Mafia, his children dream of staying in Paris to flee from their parents and his wife decides to emancipate herself.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.85
Benameur, J. Les insurrections singulières BESTSELLER. The story of Antoine, a labourer on the threshold of his forties who, between France and Brasil, between rebellion and family heritage, tries to find his identity and place in the world.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50
Benameur, J. Laver les ombres A talented dancer is in love with a painter. The strength of this novel lies in the bond between mother and daughter in Naples, during the war. An intense, emotional and sensitive novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.75
Benchetrit, S. Chroniques de l'asphalte, 1/5 At the age of thirty, Benchetrit is already writing his autobiography. This is the first of five volumes and tells of his childhood growing up in a tower block in a Parisian suburb.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £20.95
Benchetrit, S. Le cœur en dehors (2009). Charlie Traoré is a ten year old Malian boy whose mother has been arrested for failing to have a residency permit. He describes his life in a modern French city, and all the people he meets.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95
Bénégui, L. Le tournevis infiniment petit An action-packed novel about a man whose world collapses when he discovers that he does not have cancer. Convinced that he is going to die, he draws up a list of things to do without hesitation.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.55
Benincà, L. Les oiseaux de paradis A woman receives a phone call telling her that her partner Samuel has died on a business trip to Brazil. Suddenly her life is turned upside down.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £13.99
Berest, C. Mikado A student at the Sorbonne is in search of adventure. When she meets Vincent, she has no idea of the intrigue she has got herself mixed up in.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99
Bermond, D. Mademoiselle R. Paris, 30 years after the death of Robespierre, his sister remembers the "Terror" and evokes the intimate memories of her family amidst the violence, betrayal, intrigue, suspicion, sacrified love and broken friendships during the Revolution.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.90
Bern, S. Oubliez-moi On a beautiful Greek island, a French ex-pat decides to rent her villa to a French family for the summer. However, a bad fall leaves her housebound, and she is forced to stay in the house with the family she finds insuffrable.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.50
Bernard, M. Monsieur Madone The brother and former lover of Hugo Brenner meet five years after his suicide to finally discuss what for so long they have not been able to say to anyone. The new novel from the author of 'Et toujours en été'.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.40
Bertholon, D. Twist An 11-year-old girl is abducted on her way back from school. Two voices echo through this novel - that of the broken mother who refuses to believe her daughter is dead and that of the girl herself. Beautifully and carefully written.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95
Berton, B. Alain Delon est une star au Japan Finely nuanced portrait of a French actor, proving both the talent of the narrator and the quirky humour of the author — and also that fiction alone can reveal the man behind the myth.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.15
Bessette, H. Suite suisse From a little known but extraordinary author, Bessette evokes with humour and irony the trials and tribulations of her alter-ego writer exiled in Switzerland.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.20
Bessette, H. La Tour Louise and Marcel win a large sum of money and enjoy spending it. Their best friends, Fernande and André are not nearly so well off and are struggling financially. Money dominates the lives of all four of them.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.35
Besson, P. Belle sœur A man finds himself falling in love with his brother's fiancée!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.40
Besson, P. Mais la fleuve tuera l'homme blanc Set in Brazzaville in 2007, Christophe Parmentier is a young French man working for an oil company in the Congo. A portrait of corruption, superstition and war in modern Africa.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.25
Besson, P. Se résoudre aux adieux A master of the intimate novel, Besson describes a relationship break-up through a series of letters written from different parts of the world.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.70
Besson, P. La trahison de Thomas Spencer In 1950s America two young boys vow their friendship unbreakable. But events of the following decade, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, the assassination of Kennedy and the persecution of black Americans tear them apart.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95
Bessora Cueillez-moi jolis Messieurs…. Touching novel about two very different women who share a flat with their respective children. A pleasure to read!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.85
Bessora Cyr@no A 21st Century reinterpretation of Cyrano de Bergerac.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.50
Bessora Et si Dieu me demande dites-Lui que je dors Female novelists receive a mysterious invitation signed by Edmond VII offering them the opportunity to travel to Cameroon but before doing so, they must each write about their female idol; a problematic task for our heroine Rosie who is an amnesiac.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.50
Béteille, R. Noces bourgeoises Set between 1929 and the Second World War, the middle-class Labarthe family face a crisis. Following the death of her sister, the youngest of the Labarthe girls is asked to marry her brother-in-law in order to preserve the integrity of the family.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.80
Béteille, R. La pomme bleue In early 1960s rural France a boy is torn between the teachings of his grandfather — love and respect for the earth, and his father's modern farming methods. The story of a family broken apart by change.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.50
Béteille, R. Retour à Malpeyre Set in a quiet hamlet before the First World War, the younger generation bring dramatic change to the villagers' lives.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.35
Béteille, R. La rivère en colère Set in the 1930s, a young engineer is employed to build a flood barrier which will disrupt the harmony and old traditions of a forgotten, secluded village in the Massif central.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.80
Beucler, V. Les particules de mon mari sont authentiques In a small town in the Caribbean, a young advisor at the French embassy sends a message to the ambassador by mistake and tries to retrieve it. A comedy and a social satire.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.50
Bevand, R. Miserere nobis Historical fiction which plunges the reader into the tragic and grand world of early Christianity and the conversion of Emperor Constantine.
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Beyala, C. L'Homme qui m'offrait le ciel When an African single mother and a white married man begin an affair everything seems to be against them.
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Beyala, C. Le roman de Pauline 14-year-old Pauline lives in Pantin; neglected by her mother and left to her own devices, she prefers hanging around on the street to going to school. Then one of her teachers decides to step in.
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Bialot, J. Le Jour où Albert Einstein s'est échappé An energetic and darkly humourous text about love and liberty. Einstein escapes from a retirement home and meets a taxi driver who becomes his confidant and accompanies him on his search for his past lover.
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Bigot, C. L'Archange et le Procureur Biography of Camille Desmoulins who was guillotined at the age of 34 for criticising the "Terror" of Robespierre, leaving behind her son, Horace. As an adult, he writes to his grandmother to discover the truth about his parents.
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Bigot, C. L'Hystéricon Bigot's satirical novel imagines a group of young people trapped in a house, while strikes rage on the streets, who pass the time telling each other stories - crime, farcical, tragic, fable - all around the theme of love.
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Bijaoui, R. Un jour je t'aimerai The car-racing industry is at the centre of this family saga, spanning over half a century and encompassing crime, murder and the Nazi rise to power.
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Billeter, J. Parfois si louve… A young woman promises to submit herself completely and sexually to the narrator if he writes her a short, sadistic novel but as the relationship progresses, the power shifts between the two lovers…
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Billeter, J. Raspoutine et la Biche Fauve A bitter-sweet comedy of manners centering on a fifty-something Parisian Nouchka.
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Billot, A. La conjecture de Syracuse The story of a French mathematician whose existence is undermined by the arrival of an Algerian student. A breathless and mysterious novel.
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Binebine, M. Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen Yachine tells the story of his shantytown childhood to Sidi Moumen, with three brothers, a mother battling destitution and a father always clutching his rosary. In this area ravaged by drugs, death and the promise of paradise are welcomed.
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Binet, L. HHhH PRIX GONCOURT DU PREMIER ROMAN 2010. A novel based on historical events of the Second World War. In 1942 two Czechoslovakian parachutists are sent by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi Secret Service.
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Bizot, T. Catholic anonyme An autobiographical novel about a non-practicing Catholic who receives an invitation to attend a catechism class and has an encounter which will change his entire life… Enchanting.
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Bizot, V. Un avenir The story of a family which is no more dysfunctional than any other! Winner of the Prix du style 2011.
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Bizot, V. Les Jardiniers Six stories which defy logic and explore the absurd to discover a remarkable writer. Winner of the Prix Renaissance de la nouvelle 2006 with her first novel "Les Sangliers," Bizot again displays her exceptional talent for black humour.
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Bizot, V. Mon couronnement When a retired scientist is honored for one of his discoveries, one that he had forgotten about, he is overwhelmed. He finds support in his cleaning lady, who advises him to take a break in Touquet.
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Blas de Roblès, J.-M. Là où les tigres sont chez eux PRIX MEDICIS 2008. A news correspondant in north-east Brazil receives a manuscript retracing the biography of a famous Jesuit in the baroque era. He investigates and crosses paths with numerous unforgettable characters.
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Blas de Roblès, J.-M. La montagne de minuit Bastien has lived an almost monk-like existence for many years. Then one day he meets Rose and her young son Paul and their friendship enables him to realise his life's ambition — to visit Tibet.
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Blondel, J.-P. Le Baby-sitter Nineteen-year-old student Alex is broke. Placing an advert for baby-sitting in his local bakers, Alex never imagines the impact it will have on his life.
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Bofane, I. K. Mathématiques congolaises Magnificent and exotic escapism portrayed with a rythmic text, at the same time social, political and romantic.
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Boissard, J. Allez France! Nine year-old France is about to go back to school for another rollercoaster of a year! An endearing novel told from a child's point of view.
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Boissard, J. Loup, y es-tu? Manon is haunted by her difficult childhood. On finding an abandoned child on her doorstep one night, she decides to save him. Her relationship with the child forces her to re-examine the mysterious disappearance of her sister four years earlier.
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Boissard, J. N'ayez pas peur, nous sommes là Fire-fighter Ninon is a single mum, abandoned by the father of her child when he found out she was pregnant. The arrival of a writer turns her life upside-down.
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Boissard, J. Sois un homme, papa A seventeen-year-old boy overhears his mother threatening to divorce his father. The novel alternates between the narration of father and son, exploring the question of what it means to be a father.
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Bondt, F. de Un délicieux naufrage Philippe Langon is a bored 57-year-old university lecturer who embarks on an affair with the beautiful Léna, a student who is the same age as his daughter.
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Bonneau, R. Piège de feu à la Charité A novel centred around the great dramatic event on May 4th 1897 when a fire destroyed the Charity Sales Bazar and caused more than 140 deaths.
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Bonnot, X.-M. Le pays oublié du temps Michel de Palma is on the trail of an art smuggling operation which leads him from Marseille to Papua New Guinea, where a doctor died trying to purchase human skulls. The intrigues unfold and de Palma looks to Freud for answers.
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Boratav, D. Murmures à Beyoglu Dissatisfied with his career, separated from his wife and bored with his lifestyle, the narrator decides to return to Istanbul, the city of his father.
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Bordas, C. Partie commune After sheltering three successive generations of the Manin family, their house is up for sale. Enter Hector, a quiet theatre director and his troupe of chaotic comedians who want to transform the home into a theatre.
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Bordas, C. Les treize desserts (2009). Ines' life is turned upside down by the death of her father. Aged only fifteen she moves to Paris to live with her brother, whose decadent lifestyle rejects the family ideals Ines has been brought up with.
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Borrel, A Expiration First novel. A fascinating exploration of intra- and extra-muros Paris or central Paris and the suburbs beyond… Evokes the world of J.G. Ballard mixed with the sci-fi classic "Gattaca".
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Boucheron, B. du Salaam la France A portrait of Algeria on the verge of war in 1954, as seen through the eyes of a young French doctor.
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Boudjedra, R. Les figuiers de Barbarie Two men on a flight from Algiers reminisce about their childhoods in colonial Algeria, the war for independence and the fight against terrorism in contemporary Algeria.
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Bouillère, O. Rétro In 1998, the narrator is a young man whose wealth allows him to indulge in what he pleases. In 1978, the same narrator evokes the period of insouciance with his acquired knowledge and sensitivity from adulthood.
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Bouillier, G., Cathrine, A., Jaenada, P., et al 10 ans, 10 auteurs, 10 nouvelles Ten previously unpublished stories celebrate the new generation of talented writers in France.
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Boukhobza, Chochana Fureur Journalist Stella and her sister Alma decide to look into their family history. They discover that their grandfather had many secrets and led more than one life.
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Boulouque, C Nuit ouverte An actress takes the role of the first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas, ordained in 1935.
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Bouquerel, C. C'est n'est qu'un début Ernesto-Léon announces to his parents that his girlfriend is eight months pregnant. A journey to his family roots in the protests of Mai 68.
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Bouquet, A. J'ai épousé un con A hilarious story about a woman who is a socialite and falls crazily in love.
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Bouraoui, N Avant les hommes Jérémie lives with his mother on an estate. One summer he finds himself attracted to his friend Sami… An exploration of the fragility of adolescence.
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Bouraoui, N. Appelez-moi par mon prénom After winning the prix Renaudot in 2005 for "Mes mauvaises pensées," Nina Bouraoui returns with this luminous novel about the meeting between a young female writer and one of her admirers. Fluidly written.
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Bouraoui, N. Mes mauvaises pensées Prix Renadot 2005. A Franco-Algerian girl exorcises her demons, or "bad thoughts" of the title, through visits to her analyst.
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Bouraoui, N. Sauvage 1979. Fear of the future, Algeria and a missing boy all feature in Bouraoui's melancholic and abstract new novel.
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Bourdain, F. Passion fauvre, Un A struggling circus group leave 1920's Hungary for Madrid where the dancer catches the eye of an Irish heir… who would believe the union could be real?
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Bourdin, F. Un cadeau inespéré A Christmas-special novel! A ten-year old boy tries to bring a smile back to his mother's face on Christmas Eve.
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Bourdin, F. L'inconnue de Peyrolles Tired of parisian life, a woman returns to the house of her youth in south-west France. However her idyll is soon disturbed by odd occurences.
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Bourdin, F. Mano a mano (2009). Thirty year old Raphaëlle is increasingly distant from her middle-aged boyfriend, whilst he has ideas of marriage. He takes her to meet his best friend, Camargue, but Raphaëlle falls for her host's young son, the bullfighter Ruiz.
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Bourdouxhe, M. A la recherche de Marie Marie has been married to Jean for six years, and almost without her noticing, routine has replaced happiness and love. She is no longer a woman in her husband's eyes; but is willing to discover herself for a young man who gives her his phone number.
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Bourgeois, S. Sophie à Cannes After a break-up, Sophie finds herself stranded in Cannes during the film festival with nowhere to stay.
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Bragance, A. Une enfance marocaine Bragance charts her experiences growing up in Morocco
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Brami, A. Sans elle After the death of her father and her sister, ten year old Léa decides to do everything she can to put a smile on her mother's face, despite the grief which touches them both. A touching first novel.
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Brami, E. Les heures secrètes Pierre, widwower and recently retired librarian learns to love life again thanks to his 90-year-old mother-in-law.
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Bramly, C. Pastel fauve On the 31st December on the island of Brehat 14-year-old Paloma goes to meet Pierre, her childhood friend, to celebrate the new year. A coming of age story about first love.
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Bramly, S. Le premier principe, Le second principe PRIX INTERALLIE 2008. Set at the end of the Twentieth Century, narrated by a French secret service agent, this vast novel plunges the reader into the last 30 years of the history of France — the illusions, lies, national scandals and tragedies.
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Braunstein, J. with illustrations by F. Dalle-Rive Les Week-ends du père célibataire A graphic novel about a single father who only sees his son at weekends. A humorous and engaging look at fathers" rights.
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Brebel, S. Villa Bunker A family buy a beautiful villa by the sea. This soon transpires to have been a a mistake as family relations become increasingly fraught and the villa starts to feel like a prison.
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Breillat, C. Bad love From the contraversial feminist film maker and writer comes a absorbing love story penned in two voices.
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Bressant, M. La dernière conférence GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE 2008. A semi-fictional reconstruction of the 1989 conference in London which revolved around the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Brouste, J. Ruines de Vienne The memories of an old woman looking back on her life, from fleeing Austria under the Nazis to 1970s liberal Paris.
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Bruckner, P. L'Amour du prochain The life of a thirty-year old man is changed when an elderly woman offers him money to spend one hour with her.
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Brunet, G. Tous les trois A year of mourning in the life of a father and his children following the death of their mother in a car accident.
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Bugul, K. La pièce d'or Everyone is trying to find his place in today's Africa from the corrupt elite to the poor man on the street. Ba'Moïse is no different as he searches for his "piece of gold".
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Buri, N. Pierre de Scandale: Le roman de Calvin Debut novel. The story of Jean Calvin who arrives in 16th century Geneva, the town called the dirtiest and the bawdiest in Europe. A historical basis with the composition of a novel; the author seamlessly blends fiction and reality.
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Burnier, M-A. & M. Contat Sartre, roman In the wake of the recent film of Sartre's life, … now read the novel!
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Caliari, C. Retrait de marché 1950s France. Louis discovers a new miracle drug which is quickly put on the market. Unfortunately the side affects lead to hundreds of deaths and deformed babies. He flees to Algeria but justice is waiting for him on his return to France.
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Le Callet, B. La ballade de Lila K Lila remembers nothing of her life before she was brutally snatched from her mother by men dressed in black and imprisoned. Her only aim now is to find her mother, and her memory.
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Camus, D. Morgennes After David Camus’ stellar debut with "Les chevaliers du royaume", he continues his breathtaking epic of pageantry and honor in "Morgennes" recounting the character’s journey to restore the stolen cross on which Christ was crucified.
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Capron, J Amende honorable A senator opposing a new reform to the death sentence is assassinated just before he is due to make a final speech.
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Caro, F. Figurec A lazy thirty-something hires a professional extra as his "fiancée'……An enchanting first novel.
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Carrère, E. D'autres vies que la mienne After having experienced first hand a tsunami in Sri Lanka, the author recounts the story of a man and woman, both cancer survivors, who are battling against extreme poverty.
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Carrère, E. Liminov Winner of PRIX RENAUDOT 2011. Through the character of Liminov and his pilgrimages across Europe to New York, Carrère paints a picture of the world since the end of World War II.
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Carrière, A. Un rêve en plus Neglected by her divorced parents, Mélodie chooses to live with her grandparents. When her father buys her a bottle of wine dating from the year of her birth, telling her to save it for an exceptional event, she begins to question her life.
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Castillon, C. Les bulles Collection of short stories.
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Castillon, C. Les cris The story of a couple who separate — the reader enters the woman's head as she deals with the shock of lost love through writing and literature.
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Castillon, C. Dessous, c'est l'enfer A novel written with black humour about the incapacity to love, the life of a couple, maternity, intergenerational relationships and old age.
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Castro, C., et al. 11 femmes: 11 nouvelles inédites Eleven funny, tragic, sensual short stories enlightening the reader on how young women today view femininity.
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Caudoux, B. Géographie An original and sublime text which traces the diversity and path of the inner self.
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Caudoux, B. Sur quatorze façons d'aller dans le même café The narrator crosses town every day to go to his favourite café but no experience is the same, as his fourteen tales illustrate.
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Caujolle, C Circonstances particulères 2: Souvenirs Second anthology in the personal series of short stories and texts based on well known photographs. Illustrated in colour.
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Caujolle, C Circonstances particulieres 1: Histoires Short stories based on the theme of photography. Second volume also available.
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Cauvin, P. Déclic A well known writer lacking inspiration begins to unravel a mystery about his wife and decides to act in order to solve it.
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Ceccaldi, L. L'Innocente: récit Mother of Michel Houellebecq gets her revenge in this autobiographical novel recounting why her son grew apart from her while she sought a new life in Africa, India and the island of La Réunion.
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Cendrey, J.-Y. Honecker 21 Twenty-one chapters of the life of ordinary Berliner Matthias Honecker.
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Cendrey, J.-Y. La maison ne fait plus crédit In his last storming novel, Cendrey unveils his unique style of composing an autobiography about a failed childhood and bitter memories of a family falling apart.
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Cerf, M. L'antivoyage At 20 years old, Muriel leaves Paris to discover the world and heads for Asia. The colours, smells and landscapes of the Indian sub-continent are evoked in a language exploding with lyricism, joy, youth and beauty.
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Chaix, C. Souviens-toi de la rivière In a Paris garret, the narrator attempts to come to terms with rejection by his socialite girlfriend and the decline of his intellectually brilliant mother through Alzheimer's disease.
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Chalandon, S. La légende de nos pères Leaving behind his career in journalism, Marcel Frémeaux becomes a geneaologist. He is approached by a young woman keen to retrace her father's involvement in the French Resistance.
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Chalandon, S. Mon traître A Parisian leaves for Belfast where he meets Tyrone Meehan who becomes friend, brother and a traitor to him. Prizewinning journalist Sorj Chalandon combines fiction with the struggle in Northern Ireland and the IRA in the 1970s.
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Chalandon, S. Une promesse Prix Medicis 2006.
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Chalandon, S. Retour à Killybegs Winner of GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE 2011. Set in Northern Ireland. Tyrone Meehan has grown up with a mother exhausted by child birth and a violent father who instils a hatred of the English in him from an early age. This hatred leads him to join the IRA.
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Chalmet, V. Les écorchés Thriller. Reporter Rebecca Volconte is investigating human organ trafficking in China and travels to the country where she meets an artist who creates very controversial works.
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Chamoiseau, P. Un dimanche au cachot The latest book from Patrick Chamoiseau, the bestselling author from Martinique.
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Chamoiseau, P. Les neuf consciences du Malfini The day after a cyclone the great Malfini relaxes in the garden of Patrick Chamoiseau, recounting his adventure with a mockingbird, an adventure which transformed his view of the world. An imaginative, lively and philosophical novel.
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Chandernagor, F. Les enfants d'Alexandrie BESTSELLER. Prize-winning historical novel following the destiny of the children of Cleopatra.
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Chandernagor, F. La Voyageuse de nuit A seemingly unified family disintegrates when matriarch Olga falls ill.
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Chapsal, M. Une balle près du cœur A woman finds herself confronted with her partner's former lover but is assured that he will return to her…
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Chapsal, M. C'est tout un roman! Alexandre is an author of romance novels and decides one day to write an essay using his knowledge and experience of love but his book is a flop. Humiliated, he stops writing and takes refuge at his aunt's to take stock on his life as a writer.
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Chapsal, M. L'Exclusion Popular author Chapsal's version of events surrounding her exclusion from the Prix Femina jury in 2006.
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Chapsal, M. La Femme à l'écharpe Parisian Mona seems to lead the perfect life with her husband Max…. Portrait of a contemporary woman.
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Chapsal, M. Il vint m'ouvrir la porte Mathilde is looking for love and meets an unusual couple.
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Char, Y. La main de Dieu A young girl recalls her years as an adolescent in Lebanon during the war in 1975, the sensuality of first love and a world in collapse.
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Chardin, P. Le méchant vieux temps School friends meet again after ten years to take stock of their lives. Chardin mixes humour and sensitivity in this well-written novel influenced by Proust.
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Charef, M. À bras-le-cœur Poetic memoir of Algerian immigration in 1960s France. Told through the eyes of a young boy.
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Charpentier, Y. Dépêche-toi A woman leaves for a nomadic, dreamy existence in search of harmony and her driver leads her on his quest for his son taken away from him by his mother. This distinct piece of writing embraces the reader with intimacy and musicality.
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Chatelier, P. Pas le bon pas le truand Inspired by the film of the same name by Sergio Leone, Patrick Chatelier's tragic novel captures the wilderness and beauty of the American West.
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Chattam, M. Autre-monde: L'Alliance des Trois A storm sweeps across New York which decimates the population. Two men flee to an island and join a community of survivors called the Pans who are faced with their enemies the Gloutons and Cyniks.
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Chattam, M. La coeur de la terre Third volume in Maxime Chattam's popular fantasy trilogy 'Autre Monde'.
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Chauleur, C. Plissé soleil Intimate novel tracing the everyday life of an old couple - she, the victim of Alzheimers; her husband, attentive and generous despite his grief.
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Chedid, A. Les quatres morts de Jean de Dieu The travels of Juan de Dios and his wife Isabellita. Chedid paints a picture of a child of the times, in which the Spanish Civil War and the fall of the Berlin Wall form a turbulent backdrop to this moving novel.
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Chessex, J. Le dernier crâne de M. de Sade A seventy-four year old man is committed to Charenton hospice in 1814. He is guilty of numerous crimes but appears to regret nothing. The narrator is his young doctor, fascinated by his complex and disturbed patient.
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Choplin, A. Cour nord Leo and his father both lose their jobs after the factory they work at closes down. Whilst Leo immerses himself in his beloved jazz music, his father starts a hunger strike and announces he is prepared to die in order to save his union, his factory and their jobs.
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Chouraki, F. La loi du plus fort A novel for the post-financial crisis generation. A generation which has no money and no job security. Samuel is forced to work for a tyrannical boss in order to make ends meet and his friends are not faring much better.
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Clark, P. Après, Fred Chichin est mort An intimate novel which oscillates between personal experiences and anecdotes from the media-political world.
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Claude, H. Nickel chrome In Perth, Australia, gay cop Ange Cattrioni and his acolyte Ashe are led into the strongly codified world of cricket…
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Claude, H. Les ours s'embrassent pour mourir Bush fires ravaging the Melbourne area form the backdrop to this exploration of the dangers of the internet.
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Claudel, P. L'enquête BESTSELLER. A man arrives in a town, in charge of the enquiry into a wave of suicides which has hit one company. The staff are sometimes hostile, at other times elusive, and the investigator's life will soon be made more and more difficult.
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Claudel, P. La petite fille de Monsieur Linh Monsieur is an old man. He leaves his village, which has been devastated by war, with nothing but a small suitcase and his newborn orphaned grand-daughter.
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Claudel, P. Le rapport de Brodeck Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2007. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt 2007, this novel concerns the eponymous Brodeck, whose job is to write inconsequential reports on the state of the local flora and fauna for the "administration".
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Clémençon, F. Les petits We are introduced to adults who, thinking they are doing the best for their children, force them to conform to their own desires of 'well-rounded children'. Unrelenting ambition and unfulfilled hopes are inflicted on 'les petits'.
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Clémençon, F. Traques The prize-winning author's stunning prose weaves this tale of gritty realism and pure romanticism. Four people, all marginalised in different ways by society, break their silence and tell their stories.
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Clermont-Tonnerre, A. de Fourrure Ondine learns of her mother's suicide from a newspaper headline. A famous author who had little relationship with her daughter, she leaves behind her last work — an autobiography, from which Ondine learns the story of her mother's life.
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Le Clézio, J.-M. G Ourania The rise and fall of two utopian Mexican towns through the eyes of geographer, Sillitoe. An ambitious and mesmerising novel.
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Le Clézio, J.-M. G Ritournelle de la faim BESTSELLER. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, Le Clézio explores French guilt over its wartime past in this novel which revolves around Ethel, a young girl growing up in the French bourgeoisie.
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Coatalem, J.-L. Il faut se quitter déjà Set in Buenos Aires, the narrator, a reporter in his forties, invents a new life for himself to seduce a young and beautiful woman. Claiming to be searching for the last remaining city of the Incas, he ends up becoming lost in his own lies.
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Cohen, J.-M. Il n'y a pas d'âge pour séduire A mixture of fiction and reality written from the point of view of a nutritionist.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.80
Coher, S. Carénage Anton's only escape from his life is the time spent driving his motorbike in the small hours of the morning. Then, he can forget everything and everyone, including Leen.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.50
Collectif Inculte Une Chic Fille Thirteen authors re-write the life story of Anna Nicole-Smith who became a model for Playboy and sought the attention of rich married men.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.35
Colombier Hochberg, A. Diaporama Four men and four women whose lives cross paths reveal eight different truths in this funny and poignant novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95
Commengé, B. L'occasion fugitive During her three hour train journey, a woman writes a letter to the man who awaits her at her destination.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.95
Confiant, R. L'Hôtel du Bon Plaisir Hotel du Bon Plaisir is filled with colourful characters: the lawyer ruined by gambling debts; the enigmatic Syrian; the Hindu family fleeing the plantations; and the truculent Man Florine. A microcosm of multi-racial, multicultural Creole society.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.50
Conil, D. En espérant la guerre A journalist who dreams of covering big international conflicts, is sent to the south of France to investigate a hold-up which occurred twenty years before. Bitter and tender, sombre and full of hope, this novel explores themes of loyalty and youth.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.10
Conil, D. Une fille occupée An intense and vibrant novel about a young woman whose attempts to escape her parent's "reality" lead her to a bohemian and later illegal lifestyle.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.50
Constantine, B. A Mélie, sans mélo Mélie is sixty-two years old and lives alone in the countryside. Her grand-daughter comes to visit her for the first time but the day before her arrival, she learns that she has a serious illness.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.70
Constantine, B. Tom petit Tom tout petit homme Tom Eleven-year-old Tom lives with his twenty-five-year-old mum. He is often left home alone while she goes out with her friends, so Tom entertains himself by sneaking into neighbours' gardens. One day he comes across 93-year-old Madeleine crying in her vegetable patch.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.99
Cormann, E. Le Testament de Vénus Novel from celebrated playwright Cormann in which a man attempts to retrace his eventful life through the three manuscripts he saves from the rubbish bin.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.95
Cortanze, G. de De Gaulle en maillot de bain Tragi-comedy set in post-war France.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.80
Cossé, L. Les amandes amères When Édith discovers that her new cleaning lady, Fadila, is unable to read or write, she decides to teach her. Through their classes, the two women from very different backgrounds become close.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Cosso-Merad, E. Mon avion, mon roman, mon amour Full of colours and fantasy, the author recounts the destiny of a young woman who aspires to become a painter.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.80
Couderc, F. Que saignent les vignes du Roi January 1709, Versailles. A particularly brutal winter means that Piero Rossignol, a young sommelier, must do everything he can to protect the grapes from frost.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.30
Coulin, D. Samba pour la France Prix Landerneau 2011. We follow the story of Samba Cissé, who is denied citizenship after having lived in France for 10 years. He is forced to become an 'illegal', and struggles to survive from day to day.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.70
Crouzet, V. Le Seigneur d'Anvers Thriller. Sacha Bronstein,'le Seigneur d' Anvers', monopolises the diamond trade until he is accused of buying from war-torn Congo and one of his diamonds falls into the wrong hands.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.80
Cruz, F. Eaux lentes sur Venise Set in Venice in the time of Vivaldi. The friendship between two musicians of the Piéta invites us to discover more about this institution which sheltered orphans.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Curiol, C. Exil intermédiaire In Manhattan a woman is preparing to leave her partner of ten years. The same day in Paris another woman is flying to New York. Both women will experience a weekend in New York that will change their lives.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.65
Curiol, C. Permission Brilliantly crafted psychological novel. A man is recruited to The Institution, a sinister organisation where imagination is outlawed…
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.60
Curiol, C. Voix sans issue A study of amourous obsession. A lonely civil servant pursues the object of her desire in a nocturnal Paris.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £8.60
Cusset, C. Un brillant avenir PRIX GONCOURT DES LYCEENS 2008. A young Romanian woman runs away with a man and marries him against the will of her parents. She obtains American nationality but finds herself confronted with her French daughter-in-law and her husband's depression.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.70
D'Halluin, B. Jón L'Islandais Set in the 15th Century, Jón Thorsteinsson is the last heir of the Vikings of Groenland. Raised by an English family, he must quit the island to become a servant in Bristol. Many years later Jón returns to Groenland to look for his lost family and explore the savage fjords and glaciers of his childhood.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95
Da Silva, D. Treize mille jours moins un The author recounts the life of Sam, an engaging anti-hero who lives in Marseille.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.80
Dabit, E. Train de vies Twelve stories published months before the death of Eugène Dabit in 1936 containing a series of portraits of simple men with dramatic destinies. Includes very personal pages about his youth during the war. "Train de Vies" is followed by "Velazquez."
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.55
Daeninckx, D. Camarades de classe A story told with accuracy and humanity about a generation marked by the upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.95
Daeninckx, D. Galadio Ulrich is the son of a German woman and a Senegalese soldier stationed in Germany during WWI. As the Nazis rise to power, mixed-race children become a target and a failed escape leads Ulrich to the concentration camps. A touching novel.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.50
Daeninckx, D. Histoire et faux-semblants A collection of four novels in which appearances are deceiving.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £13.10
Dahlia Adore A meeting between ex-lovers, Annabel and Verlaine, two months after Verlaine left her with no explanation.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £13.30
Dakhlia, J. Lingua franca: Histoire d'une langue métisse en Méditerranée The author describes and analyses the lingua franca, spoken in the Mediterranean until its disappearance during the middle of the 19th Century, which has left a profound mark on the world.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £34.20
Dallet, J-M. Pontmaudit ou les chemins de la haute mer A swashbuckler.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.10
Dalodé, J. Très bonnes nouvelles du Bénin A collection composed of satirical short stories revolving around themes of corruption, bad luck and adversity, which take place in and around African towns and villages.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.15
Dantec, M. G. Comme le fantôme d'un jazzman dans la station Mir en déroute Our narrator is on the run from the centre where he was being held as a carrier of a strange neurological virus connecting his brain to the space station Mir and to his guardian angel, a jazz musician. A novel combining sci-fi and the metaphysical.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.20
Dantec, M.G. Artefact Thriller. Three narratives involving the collapse of two American skyscrapers, a mysterious briefcase, and a killer on the loose, merge into one gripping story.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £28.65
Dantzig, C. Dans un avion pour Caracas A man is flying to Venezuela in the hope of finding his friend, a famous linguist who has been kidnapped. What made his friend decide to write a book on Hugo Chavez?
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99
Dantzig, C. Je m'appelle François François is a man of mystery traveling all over the world under different identities.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.50
Daoud, Z. Les petits-enfants de Zaynab A staggering novel which tells the destiny of Zaynab, born in 1039 of exceptional beauty and intelligence and who, at nineteen years old meets her third husband who dreams of founding a fortress.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.20
Darley, E. Le Bonheur A beautiful meditation on migration. Different voices, often clandestine, give their thoughts on the "Eldorado" they believe to be France.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.40
Darrieusecq, M. Clèves A cruel yet beautiful coming-of-age story of a young girl in the south of France.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.00
Darrieussecq, M. Le pays A young woman returns to her roots in the Basque country.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.55
Darrieussecq, M. Tom est mort Bestseller A mother tells the life story of her dead son from his birth to his premature death at four years old. Shortlisted for both the Prix Fémina and the Prix Goncourt this year.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95
Dauven, J.-F. Ceux qui marchent dans les villes It's the beginning of the summer and a heatwave is raging across Europe. In ten cities, ten stories are told.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95
David, A. Kim: héroïne hitchcockienne 30-year-old Kim is a struggling actress, held back by her phobias and a lack of confidence. Inspired by heroines from Hitchcock films, she starts to believe in herself and takes control of her life.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.50
David-Weill, C. Les prétendants Laure and Marie are determined to prevent their father from selling their idyllic childhood home, so they hatch a plan to audition potential (wealthy) suitors and choose one to marry. A comic novel about wealth, love and chance.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.65
de Beaucé, T. L'Absent de Marrakech The narrator takes a long walk through the chaos and memories that make up Marrakesh.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.95
De Clausade, V. L'âge des promesses The destinies of five young women cross during their final year of school. But at seventeen years old, nothing happens as you expect…
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.30
De La Rochefoucauld, L.-H. Les vies Lewis One day in September the narrator, a young twenty year old writer, goes to Champagne hoping to write the memoirs of his misanthropist grandfather. But his grandfather is refusing to co-operate…
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.35
Deambrosis, M. Juste pour le plaisir Between 1940-1945 a man moved through Europe, adopting different identities and, with complete impunity, collaborated with the enemy and killed. Now, some years later, those haunted by the events of the past try to find him.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.60
Declerck, P. Socrate dans la nuit A philosophical and anthropological text about a man who has an inoperable but benign brain tumour. Based on the author's personal experience.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.40
Decoin, D. Une anglaise à bicyclette In 1890 a widowed English photographer takes pity on an orphaned 3-year-old American girl and brings her back home to his mansion in Yorkshire. As she grows up, people start to become suspicious of their relationship.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Dédéyan, M. L'Aigle de Constantinople Andronic and Manuel are cousins and share beauty, ambition and intelligence. But in April 1143, when Manuel is suddenly called to reign the Byzantine empire, Andronic finds himself in the shadows…
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95
Dédéyan, M. Les vikings de Novgorod Historical fiction exploring the life of Viking Chief Rourik and the establishment of his dynasty in Russia.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95
Defalvard, Marien Du temps qu'on existait Prix de Flore 2011 & Prix du premier roman français 2011. A melancolic and satirical novel following the life of the son of a bourgois family from the 1970s to the present day.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99
Deforges, R. Et quand viendra la fin du voyage: 1964-1967 The long-awaited final volume in the "Bicyclette Bleue" series!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.25
Deghelt, F. La grand-mère de Jade A young girl plans to kidnap her grandmother to get her out of her nursing home. Told from two perspectives.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.65
Del Amo, J.-B. Une éducation libertine PRIZWINNER. Set in Paris in 1760, this novel recounts the ascension of the young Gaspard. Prix Laurent Bonelli-Lire & Virgin Megastore 2008.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95
Del Amo, J.-B. Le sel Louise, a fisherman's widow, invites her three children and their families to a dinner at her house. As the event approaches, each child experiences the resurgence of long-forgotten memories, of jealousies, grudges and regrets.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.30
Delaporte, F. Terre neuve Anne-Lieve accepts a new archaeology job following the tragic death of her husband. A novel exploring the mysteries of the ancient world and contemporary fears and concerns.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.90
Delaume, C. Dans ma maison sous terre The narrator, Chloé, despises her grandmother; a lie she told caused her father to murder her mother then commit suicide. Ten years later she discovers that Sylvain was not her biological father and through hypothesis she considers her origins.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.35
Delaume, Chloé Une femme avec personne dedans
New Fiction. Published 2012. Price: £15.99
Delepierre, P. Les Gadoues An idyllic 1960's childhood in the north of France is threatened by memories of the not so distant German Occupation. From the bestselling author of "Fred Hamster et Madame Lilas".
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.70
Delerive, P. Bayou Cruel After surviving a fire in his restaurant, a man decides to change his life and leaves for Louisiana where he meets a young African woman running a restaurant and raising a child alone. A fast paced thriller.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.30
Delerm, P. Ma grand-mère avait les mêmes: Les dessous affriolants des petites phrases Philippe Delerm explores familiar sayings and clichés, and shows what their use reveals about people.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £6.99
Delerm, P. Ma grand-mère avait les mêmes: les dessours affriolants des petites phrases Philippe Delerm describes the friendly moments, small aggravations, furtive pleasures, great moments of solitude and wonderments in this collection of phrases.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £15.10
Delerm, P. Quelque chose en lui de Bartleby Arnold Spitzweg creates a blog detailing his life as a post office employee. To his surprise it becomes an overnight success.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.15
Delerm, P. La Tranchée d'Arenberg et autres voluptés sportives Mini musings on the theme of sport in inimitable Delerm style.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.10
Delerm, P. Le trottoir au soleil Forty short texts that tell of the little pleasures and moments of happiness in daily life.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.80
Delhomme, S.-A. Quitter Dakar Following the death of his mother, a young man returns to Dakar. He tries to understand the city in which he grew up, why he and his mother left Africa so abruptly, and why his mother returned to Dakar every April until her death.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.75
Delpech, P. Et je brûlerai ton coeur de pierre 1936. The famous police investigator Barnabé leads an investigation into an attack against Léon Blum and discovers that his son is a serial killer who holds a deep hatred for him . An original, roaring thriller.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.20
Demessence, T. Le Pizza du Bon Dieu Thierry delivers pizzas and falls in love with Élizabeth who ordered one!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £12.80
Démoulin, N. Ton nom argentin Nathalie Démoulin's magnificent writing captures perfectly the fears of a generation through the eyes of her protagonist, Isabèl, a press photographer.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.15
Denis, A. Le dossier Meyer-Devembre Strange goings-on in a Parisian apartment block. A famous detective takes on the case.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.95
Denis, S. Un espion trop parfait An ex-secret agent travels across Europe in an attempt to track down a well-respected member of the secret service. A dramatic and unexpected ending awaits him!
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.50
Denis, S. Un parfait salaud Paul Jarvis is a sucessful writer who has never been lacking in inspiration — until his wife leaves him. Then, on the ninth day of his writer's block, a perfect idea for a screenplay mysteriously appears on his desk.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.25
Depland, D. En voie de disparition Our narrator, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, encumbered by a body no longer any use to him, speaks to us from a kind of afterlife, in strange solitude.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £13.65
Deroche, F. Bio The narrator, who only eats organic food, is young, handsome and rich, but without desire. This novel tells of a healthy lifestyle and the excesses we are driven to in pursuit of perfect health.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Desarthe, A. Dans la nuit brune Jérôme knows nothing of his roots. All he knows is that he was found living in the woods by the couple who would later adopt him. Now the time has come for him to find out the truth.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.55
Desarthe, A. Le remplaçant The author introduces us to the last piece of the puzzle in her family, the eccentric B.B.B. After her grandfather was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942, her grandmother married this character, whose fascinating portrait Desarthe concerns herself with.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £16.45
Desbiolles, M. Les draps du peintre An exceptional novel recounting the destiny of a painter who is suffering from arthritus.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.95
Descamps, D. L'Apéritif des faibles After the death of his friend, a young man leaves Marseille to go to Flandres where he spent his childhood. With glimmers of Proust in its evocation of memories and the exuberance of youth, this is a book full of warmth.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.30
Desesquelles, I. Quelques heures de fièvre After twenty-five years of absence Dino returns to the Italian lakes where he grew up.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.95
Despentes, V. Apocalypse bébé BESTSELLER. PRIX RENAUDOT 2010. Lucie is a private detective who does not have much conviction or talent for her job. She is taken on to look into the disappearance of a difficult young boy and enlists the help of the radical "La Hyène".
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95
Despentes, V. King Kong théorie Memoirs of occasional prostitute and controversial author of "Baise-moi".
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.95
Detambel, R. 50 histoires fraîches Collection of short stories.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.55
Detambel, R. Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs A nun who is a music teacher in a convent causes a scandal when she falls in love with one of her pupils.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.85
Detambel, R. Son corps extrême Badly injured in a car accident, Alice is in hospital and, bit by bit, starts to rebuild her life along with her body.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Diastème Bien le silence partout A film director is trying to write a new version of the classic 'Angelique, Marquise des Anges' but is failing miserably after his wife leaves him, his brother tries to commit suicide, and he seems unable to shake off the flu.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.65
Dingli, L. Dans l'ombre des lumières Visiting Brest's penal colony, a philanthropic aristocrat becomes intrigued by a convict with a mutilated face, who calls himself Saint-Amant. Hunting for more information on him, the nobleman is unexpectedly transported years earlier to the eve of the Revolution.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.55
Diome, F. Celles qui attendent Arame and Bougna are both mothers scared of losing their sons and their husbands, who have left to work illegally overseas. A story about emigration written from the point of view of the women who are left behind.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.90
Diome, F. Inassouvies, nos vies A single thirty year old woman passes her time by observing the inhabitants of a block of flats opposite her. Her attention focuses on an old woman who she becomes fond of and a true friendship is born.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.80
Diwan, A. De l'autre côté de l'été A moving portrait of a woman in her sixties who pays a young man to be her companion for a year.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95
Diwan, A. La Fabrication du mensonge A young girl impulsively answers an advert for staff in a wedding dress shop. First novel.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.75
Diwo, J. La Calèche BESTSELLER. A fictionalised account of the Hermès family. Beginning with the Napoleonic campaigns, when a young saddler decides to move to Paris, right up to WWII, this book follows the development of a brand which is symbolic of French luxury.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.15
Diwo, J. Le Jeune Homme en culotte de golf An evocation of the youth of the journalist and novelist Jean Diwo through texts by Paul Eluard, Marlène Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Dali, Chagall and many more.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95
Diwo, J. Moi, Milanollo fils de Stradivarius Exhilarating historical novel on a musical theme from bestselling author of "Les Violons du Roi".
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.35
Djaïdani, R. Visceral Edgy novel set in the "banlieue" or troubled suburban estate.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.25
Djavann, C. Comment peut-on être français? Roxane arrives in Paris from Iran with only enthusiasm, naivety and the desire to learn French. She starts to write down her experiences as letters to the great 18th century writer Montesquieu….
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.95
Djavann, C. Je ne suis pas celle que je suis Donya was born in Iran but lives in exile in France. Through psychoanalysis sessions and flashbacks to her past in Iran, the reader learns her story.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50
Djavann, C. La muette BESTSELLER Novel recounting the tragic destiny of a young teenager writing in prison and condemned to death by hanging. Her close relationship with her mute aunt dominates the text; a story which you will not forget.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.45
Djebar, A. Nulle part dans la maison de mon père Member of the "Académie française', Algerian writer Djebar evokes the people and places that have shaped her very singular fiction.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.40
Djemaï, A. Un moment d'oubli A former police officer, unable to forgive himself after the death of his son, wanders into a town in Eastern France, without papers and to everyone he meets, without a past.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.10
Djian, P. Incidences Marc is a university professor. He seduces one of his students but wakes up to find her dead next to him. In panic, Marc hides the body. When her mother visits him to ask for help looking for her daughter, Marc finds himself falling for her.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.40
Djian, P. Vengeances Marc is finding it very difficult to recover from the trauma of his son Alexandre's suicide. When he meets Alexandre's last girlfriend he invites her to stay with them, all the time suspecting that she is looking for revenge.
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Doizelet, S. Nos amis des confins Debbie leaves New York to work in London, and moves to Grays, a town on the Eastern outskirts of London. She ends up renting a house belonging to a poet who disappeared 30 years before and whose mystery was never solved…
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.75
Dongala, E. Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve When Méréana wakes up she knows it is not going to be a normal day.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.55
Donner, C. Un roi sans lendemain A script writer researches the mysterious death of Louis XVI's infant son, cruelly "reeducated" as a Republican. Shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95
Dorion, H. Le hublot des heures A collection of metaphysical poems about time.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £13.50
Doumenc, P. Un tigre dans la soute Centred around the world of aviation, Doumenc transports the reader to the edges of the fantastic and demonstrates his gift for originality and imagination.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95
Dreyfus, A. Iris, c'est votre bleu A beautiful collection of poems celebrating the incarnation of time.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £12.95
Du Boucheron, B. Coup-de-fouet A young cavalry lieutenant is posted to Paris during the Great War. His hunting skills rival that of another contender for the affections of Aells. A masterful novel blending violence and sensuality.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.95
Dubois, J.-P. Les accommodements raisonnables BESTSELLER. A man leaves for Hollywood to re-write the script of a French film, hoping to forget his wife's depression and his own failures. He soon discovers an artificial universe and meets the younger double of his wife. Tragic and funny.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.65
Dubois, J.-P. Le cas Sneijder Awakening from a coma, Paul is devastated when he is told that his daughter did not survive their accident. He descends into depression but a new job as a dog walker will save him.
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Dubois, J.-P. Hommes entre eux Two rivals for the same woman, one living in France and the other in Canada. A snow storm brings a confrontation between the two men.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.60
Duchatelet, C. Pelles & Râteaux Like a male version of Bridget Jones, this is a semi-autobiographical story about the eventful life of a 35 year-old single father.
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Dufour, C. Outrage et rébellion Set in 2320, this novel follows the bored pupils at a fashionable boarding school in Eastern China who invent a new type of music to unite them in their fight against the establishment. They are driven underground and discover war and love.
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Dufour, H. Ce que l'océan ne dit pas In the small town of Marennes, little Christine grows up and dreams of becoming a writer, surrounded by her Italian mother, who is a musician, her brother and grandparents. A story full of tenderness and memories.
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Dugain, M. Une exécution ordinaire In August 2000, a Russian nuclear submarine sinks in the Barents Sea in the Arctic. Vania Altman is one of the few survivors. Inspired by true events, Dugain paints a paranoid portrait of contemporary Russia.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.15
Dugain, M. L'insomnie des étoiles It's the autumn of 1945 and the Allies are occupying Germany. In the South of the country, Capitain Louyre and his company come across an isolated farm where a savage girl is living alongside a corpse.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95
Dupeyron, F. Où cours-tu Juliette? 20-year-old Juliette returns home to find her mother in bed with her boyfriend. From that day on Juliette changes her life by leaving home and beginning to search for her father, who she has never met.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.50
Duplessy-Rousée, C. Fleur et Lola Two best friends, Fleur and Lola, are united by their love of literature so decide to abandon their careers in nursing to open an independent bookshop in Rouen.
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Dupont-Monod, C. La passion selon Juette Set in 12th century Belgium, this is the story of reclusive young widow Juette, told against a backdrop of Cathar persecution.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.30
Duran Cohen, I. Face aux masses A young fearless girl is employed as an intern in a marketing firm run by a brother and sister and is soon caught up in the conflicts and dissaray of a world of sectarianism. A witty, sharp and ironic text.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.15
Durif, E. Laisse les hommes pleurer A prison warden has just lost his job and decides to look for his childhood friend on a farm in La Creuse. Durif creates a warm novel with a simple yet powerful story.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.80
Dutourd, J. Portraits de femmes Remi Chapotot, a fervent admire of Zola, is a mediocre novelist. That is until three women, either out of boredom, concern or ambition, decide to help his career.
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Echenoz, J. Courir BESTSELLER. Jean Echenoz re-invents with grace the life of the famous Czech athlete Emil Zatopek.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.45
Echenoz, J. Des éclairs BESTSELLER. Gregor, who has invented everything that could ever be needed for the coming centuries, is little interested in the commercialisation of his work, yet others take profit from it.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.35
Echenoz, J. Ravel Bestseller Novel retracing the final ten years in the life of the composer Maurice Ravel.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £14.99
Effa, G-P. À la vitesse d'un baiser sur la peau A young African student in Alsace is the lover of Hilda, an older woman whose conservative mother is against their liaison.
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Effa, G.-P. Nous, enfants de la tradition At least one in two African immigrants send three quarters of their salary to their family who remain on the continent. The author addresses this issue when an African man is sent to France for his studies, leading to the breakdown of his marriage.
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Efoui, K. Solo d'un revenant The narrator returns to his country which has suffered ten years of massacres. He seeks to find out why his friend Mozaya died and goes in search of a man named Asafo Johnson.
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Egloff, J. L'homme que l'on prenait pour un autre Superbly written, prizewinning author Joel Egloff uses black humour and pathos to depict the disruption caused when people mistake an ordinary man for someone else. His numerous identities lead to a series of mishaps and adventures.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.75
Éliard, A. Nuits de noces: Nouvelles Six short stories centred on the themes of love and marriage.
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Emmanuel, F. L'enlacement When a woman faints at the sight of a painting by Egon Schiele in a museum in Vienna, she develops a strange love affair with a writer who followed her that morning…
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Emptaz, E. Les corbeaux d'Alang Three men's paths cross in a hotel in Gujarat — Louis, a French tourist still recovering from the death of his wife, Iqbal, a young Indian muslim whose family was massacred, and an American journalist.
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Enard, M. L'alcool et la nostalgie Mathias gets a call from Jeanne announcing the death of their friend Vladimir. He decides to accompany his friends' body on the Transsiberian from Moscow to Vladivostok and succumbs to nostalgia of their past freindship, love, drugs and alcohol.
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Énard, M. Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants BESTSELLER. Winner of Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2010. The story of a forgotten few weeks of history when Michelangelo was invited to Constantinople by the Sultan to discuss the building of design of the Bosphorus Bridge.
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Énard, M. Zone PRIX DECEMBRE 2008. One night a man takes the train to Rome with a suitcase filled with secrets about his activities within the French intelligence service in the Near East. Like a modern day Iliad.
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Enjolet, C. Mémoires d'enfance Sixteen French writers share their first memories in this collection of funny, poetic, moving and heartbreaking stories.
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Ernaux, A. Les Années The fascinating memoires of a woman from during the end of the 2nd World War to present day are written in the style of an impersonal autobiography. More intense than Ernaux's other novels this is an important novel which echoes "La deuxième sexe."
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Estibal, S. Eternel Set in a dystopian society in 2043, the crew of the space shuttle 'Eternel' face first the murder of their commander, then a strange series of deaths. Only the most cunning will survive; but will also undoubtedly be the prime suspect…
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Fabre, Dominique Il faudrait s'arracher le coeur The narrator tells of the people he has loved and who have left him. A novel about the difficulty of forgetting not only the big moments in life but also the little things which make you who you are.
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Fargues, N. Beau rôle A young actor on the brink of stardom takes us with him through his relationships in the showbiz world and troubled waters with his recent lover.
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Fargues, N. Le roman de l'été BESTSELLER. John's holiday does not go exactly as he had planned when his daughter brings her new Italian boyfriend to the summer house, and the neighbours demand he drills a hole in the wall so that they too can have a sea view.
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Fargues, N. Tu verras Following the accidental death of his young son, a father relives the circumstances of his death and also the time they spent together.
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Faye, É. Nagasaki BESTSELLER. GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE 2010. Based on a true story, a Japanese man discovers a homeless woman has been living in his appartment for a month without him realising.
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Fellag L'Allumeur de rêves berbères A journalist observes the citizens of Algiers from his balcony… A charming examination of Algerian daily life.
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Fellous, C. Plein été On holiday in Tunisia, the author is reminded of a childhood spent there in the 1950s.
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Fenwick, P. Folk A father constructs a dinosaur in his garden, a zookeeper poses naked to save a couple…a collection of zany and funny stories about people who are all struggling with the question of the meaning of existence.
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Fermine, M. Tombeau des étoiles Set in the Savoie region at the end of World War 2, this is a story of love, revenge, resistance and reprisals.
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Fernandez, C. La Saison rouge In a fictional Arab country, a European woman lives a carceral existence with her son and becomes mad from solitude. The characters are unforgettable, the writing is sensual and lyrical as well as sombre and cruel.
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Fernandez, D. Place Rouge A famous Parisian painter with aspirations for eternal love leaves for Moscow when he is invited by a Russian woman to showcase his work in her art gallery. From prizewinning author of both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Goncourt.
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Ferney, A. Les Autres Family drama.
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Ferney, A. Paradis conjugal For the umpteenth time, a mother of four children whose husband has left her, watches the film "Chaînes conjugales". The characters of the film and those of the novel share the same sentimental adventures and misfortunes.
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Ferney, A. Paradis conjugal In her husband's absence, Elsa Platte becomes obsessed with the film 'Chaînes conjugales' and begins to envisage her life through those of the heroines.
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Ferney, A. Passé sous silence Based on real historical events, this is the story of two men in late Twentieth Century and their different visions of France.
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Ferrai, J. Où j'ai laissé mon âme BESTSELLER. Captain André Degorce meets up with his friend Andreani with whom he faced the horrors of war and imprisonment in Indochina. Since then, they have both become executioners in the Algerian War, hunting the Christ-like rebel leader Tahar.
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Ferrand, F. La Cour des Dames, Volume 2: Les fils de France Story about the struggle for power during the second half of the reign of François I involving Anne de Pisseleu, duchess of Étampes and Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of the young prince Henri. A fascinating historical novel.
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Ferrand, F. Madame Catherine: La cour des dames 3 The third book in a series of historical fiction surrounding the intrigues of the Renaissance French Court. Set against the backdrop of the Wars of Religion.
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Ferranti, M. La Cadillac des Montadori The old Montadori is on his death bed in Corsica and calls upon Sandro Riucci, revealing that he is, in reality, his nautral son…By the winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2002 for "La princesse de Mantoue."
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Ferrari, J. Balco Atlantico In a village in Corsica, a woman who is an ardent nationalist has killed herself. The novel goes back in time to re-tell her journey and her meeting with two young Moroccans seeking a better life but victims of racism.
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Ferrari, J. Un dieu, un animal Set in the aftermath of 9/11. A young man decides to leave the village of his birth and head for the desert, occupied by armies in various uniforms. The impossiblity of love signifies a loss of individual liberty.
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Fialaix, L. Nos bonheurs fragiles Following the brutal and violent disappearance of a close friend, the narrator finds writing his sole comfort. Between a novel and an intimate diary, Failaix writes about grief, absence and love.
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Fiorentino, M. Un trader ne meurt jamais The debut novel from a financial market specialist delving into the murky world of traders, risk taking and ruination.
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Fiszman, V. Petites faiblesses inavouables Anyone can sink into bad habits; here the author attributes negative characteristics to figures in short stories.
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Fleutiaux, P. Les amants imparfaits When 9 year-old Raphaël meets twins Léo and Camille, he finds they have a strange hold over him…even in later life.
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Foenkinos, D. Les Cœurs autonomes Murderous lovers on the run.
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Foenkinos, D. La Délicatesse Set in Sweden, Charles Delamain is in love with his recently-widowed colleague Nathalie.
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Foenkinos, D. Nos séparations The story of a couple who love each other but spend their life separated. They end up by having children by other people. One day, the son of one of them meets the daughter of the other during a pilgrimage to the Père-Lachaise.
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Foenkinos, D. Souvenirs After the death of his grandfather, the narrator realises the importance of spending time with loved ones before it's too late.
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Fofana, L.M. Le diable dévot Desperate to make his pilgrimage to Mecca, the Imam Galouwa fears his place will be given to a young and dedicated hadji. An 80-year-old neighbour offers to buy Galouwa's plane ticket but only if he can marry Galouwa's 13-year-old daughter.
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Fonelle À Moscou juaqu'au cou The new book from Sophie Fontanel, known as Fonelle, a writer for 'Elle' magazine who travels the world causing mischief wherever she goes. This time she is in Moscow.
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Fontaine, B. Travellings A unique, flowing novel which recounts the adventures of the beautiful Judith. By multi-talented Brigitte Fontaine, also a singer, poet, comedian and dramatist.
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Fontanarava, E. Petites musiques de vies In a little village two friends, Antoine and Jean, meet Margault. Antoine leaves for military service, Margault marries Jean but becomes the lover of Antoine and has his children. Time will unveil their secrets but their love will remain…
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Fontanel, S. L'envie After a string of meaningless liaisons, a young woman decides to abstain from sex for a few months. In this way she hopes to find happiness, and herself, again.
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Fonteneau, P. Propriétés privées A darkly humourous novel about bored neighbourhood watchmen who, when finally confronted with a crime, hide the dead body.
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Fottorino, E. Baisers de cinéma Prix Fémina 2007. The eighth novel from the author of "Korsakov" is an elegant tale of a man's search for his unknown mother.
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Fottorino, É. Le dos crawlé It's the summer of 1976 and 13-year-old Marin is on holiday on the Atlantic coast. He meets 10-year-old Lisa and develops a profound affection for this little girl who is largely ignored by her parents.
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Fottorino, E. Mes petites morts Anna moves to Ireland to study at university. She meets Malek and the two are instantly attracted to each other. However, Malek's secretive nature and his sudden disappearance from Anna's life leaves her devastated until she meets Otto and falls in love.
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Foucard, D. Casse An artist with nearly a million euros in false money launches one of the greatest thefts of the century. A thrilling novel about art and fraud.
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Foucard, D. Civil A polemic novel which examines the responsibility of the police through the integrity of a respected policeman.
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Fouchet, L. Une vie en échange The two people you love most in the world are in danger. You can only save one of them. Who would you choose? This is the dilemma which Silvia faces and she has three days to decide…
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Fournier, J.-L. Où on va, papa? PRIX FEMINA 2008. A father decides to write a book for his two handicapped sons: his pain, his remorse but also his joy.
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Fournier, J.-L. Poète et paysan Jean-Louis Fournier recounts his life outside writing; falling in love with a farmer's daughter leads him to become a farmer too.
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Frain, I. Les naufragés de l'ile Tromelin GRAND PRIX PALATINE DU ROMAN HISTORIQUE 2009. Set in 1761, this dramatic novel follows the fate of a French ship wrecked in the Indian Ocean — and its human cargo of 160 slaves.
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Frank, B. Les rats Set in 1950s Paris, 'The Rats' consist of Bourrieu, Weil, François and Ponchard, a group of blasé, cynical yet ambitious young men hoping to become writers.
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Frappat, H. Inverno When they were children, Emmanuelle was L.'s best friend. Twenty years later, she reappears in L.'s life and reawakens old memories.
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Frèche, E. Chouquette Forced to take her grandson on holiday with her, 'Chouquette', so-named because of her refusal to be called grandma, finds that being a grandparent is not so bad after all.
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Fuentès, R. Le mur et l'Arpenteur The characters in this novel live at the foot of an impassable wall and each imagines what it is like on the other side until the day when they decide to cross it…
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Gagnon, P. Mon vieux et moi The narrator has just retired and decides to "adopt" 99-year-old Léo who comes to live with him. This delightful novel is full of the joys of the small things in life. By a Quebecois author.
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Gailly, C. Lily et Braine After three months spent in a military hospital following severe concussion, Braine returns home to be with his partner Lily.
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Gailly, C. Les Oubliés Two journalists set themselves the task of bringing forgotten artists to the public's attention. Prizewinning author.
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Gallay, C. L'amour est une île Whilst the theatre festival in Avignon is suspended due to strikes, a famous actress takes the opportunity to visit her home town for the first time in 10 years.
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Gallay, C. Les déferlantes Forty years after a huge storm a man returns to the place of the wreckage. The narrator, intrigued by this man, tries to uncover the mystery and secrets of this event. Beautifully written.
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Gallo, M. La chambre ardente Max Gallo recounts the troubled events during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Gallo, M. Le roman des rois: Les grands capétiens (2009). Historical fiction about the three founders of the French kingdom: Philippe II Auguste, Saint Louis, and Philippe IV le Bel.
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Garat, A.-M. L'Enfant des ténèbres 1933-1934. The Great war has sent the world into upheaval. Camille Galay leaves New York and wanders the streets of Paris, haunted by the death of her friend Jos. By the winner of the Prix Femina in 1992 for her novel "Aden."
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Garat, A.-M. Une faim de Loup: Lecture du Petit Chaperon Rouge Anne-Marie Garat gives her interpretation of Perrault's famous story, incorporating elements of psychoanalysis, etymology and history.
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Garat, A.-M. Pense à demain Garat's novel follows the destiny of a group of young people growing up in the 1960s.
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Garcia, T. La meilleure part des hommes PRIX DE FLORE 2008. Tristan Garcia recounts the story of four characters whose lives cross in the 1980s, a generation struck by the Aids epidemic. Hailed as one of the outstanding novels of the "rentrée littéraire" by Le Monde.
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Garcia, T. Mémoires de la jungle A fantasy novel which imagines that vast areas of African countryside are completely free of humans, and chimpanzees begin learning to speak.
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Garcin, J. L'écuyer mirobolant A portrait tracing the life of the horserider Étienne Beaudant; officer of the cavalry in Algeria and Morocco and later dressage champion.
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Garcin, J. Les Sœurs de Prague A mediocre writer suddenly writes a bestseller. His detractors claim it was an accident…
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Gardel, L. La baie d'Alger An adolescent's memories of a disappearing French Algeria.
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Garnier, P. Le grand loin Marc has everything he needs but still dreams of remote horizons. When he visits his daughter Anne in a psychiatric hospital he proposes that they go to the seaside. But an escapade becomes an escape and Marc must reveal their true destination.
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Garnier, P. Lune captive dans un oeil mort Martial and Odette have left Paris behind for a villa in a secure community in the south of France. Their new sheltered existence sets them apart from the rest of the world to such an extent that they begin to fear the outside.
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Garnier, P. Roman de plage Divorced father Stéphane finds himself unwillingly spending the summer in a Venezuelan holiday camp with his ten year-old son.
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Garnier, P. La théorie du panda A charismatic man one day decides to check into a hotel in a small town in Brittany and rapidly forms stong bonds with the inhabitants, including the hotel receptionist, two junkies and the owner of a bar whose wife is in hospital.
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Gatore, G. Le passé devant soi A sensitively written story about two dynamic but fragile children whose paths cross during a civil war in Africa. Inspirational, enlightening and sensual, the novel raises philosophical issues about redemption and salvation.
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Gattégno, J.-P. J'ai tué Anémie Lothomb On discovering the body of a successful novelist, Antoine hatches a plan to finally escape his own anonymity as a writer. A satire on the literary world which raises questions about the distinction between talent and notoriety.
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Gaudé, L Dans la nuit Mozambique Four intriguing stories from the prizewinning author of "La Mort du Roi Tsongor" and "Le Soleil des Scorta".
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Gaudé, L. Eldorado Salvatore Piracci intercepts boats carrying clandestine immigrants off the coast of Sicily. In a parallel narrative, two Sudanese brothers set off for Europe, their promised land. Laurent Gaudé is a former Prix Goncourt winner.
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Gaudé, L. Les oliviers de Négus Four stories of heroes who face almost certain death and yet survive.
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Gaudé, L. Ouragan BESTSELLER. Set in New Orleans when the devastating hurricane hits, this is the story of twelve strangers and how their lives become intertwined in the wake of Katrina.
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Gaudé, L. La Porte des Enfers Rhythmic, powerful and captivating, this is a novel about grief, absence and remorse when a man's son is shot on the streets of Naples in 1980.
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Gaudy, H. Si rien ne bouge When Nina and her parents invite the detatched and quiet teenager Sabrina to join their summer holiday, she proves more disruptive than any of them had imagined.
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Gauthier, Y. Moscou sauvée des eaux Adventure novel set on board a ship in contemporary Russia.
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Gautier, P. Les vieilles The village of Trou is home to a group of widows, all aged over seventy. The arrival of Nicole, a newly retired widow, disturbs and enlivens all their lives. A comic and refreshing novel about old age.
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Gavalda, A. La consolante BESTSELLER The eagerly-awaited new novel from Anna Gavalda about a 47 year-old architect who discovers that a woman he knew and loved as a child has died.
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Gavalda, A. L'Échappée belle BESTSELLER. Four grown up siblings come together for a family wedding. A comic and touching novel about childhood and family. Gavalda describes her fifth novel as a hommage to sibling rivalries, insuffrable sisters-in-law and the wines of the Loire valley.
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Gazier, M. La fille Shortly after the end of WWI, Marthe's father dies. She is only two when her family relocates to the South of France. As Marthe's older siblings get married and leave home, she is left alone and feeling increasingly trapped by her strict mother.
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Gazier, M. Un soupçon d'indigo A memorable novel about the mysterious disappearance of a man in the Antilles.
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Gendarme, Jean-Baptiste Un éclat minuscule When his partner is hit by a car when they are out walking in Alexandria, the narrotor stands by helplessly as they wait for the emergency services to arrive. His head fills with a succession of good and bad memories.
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George, S. Griffé Reveals the secrets and mysteries of a fashion house in 1980s Paris.
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Georget, D. Une passion hongroise A story about the meeting between two war reporters in Budapest in 1956 during a revolution. From the author of "Goodbye Mister President."
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Gerard, Y. 676 At Trinty College in England, the leading world expert on black numbers, Professor Alan Gordon, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. This thriller is Gerard's debut novel.
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Germain, S. Hors Champ BESTSELLER. Aurélien, an ordinary but lonely man, realises that he is disappearing in the eyes of others.
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Germain, S. L'inaperçu A woman's husband is killed in a car accident leaving her to look after her four children alone. Sylvie German skilfully presents a bitter sweet portrait of a provincial family after the war.
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Ghatta, Y. Muettes Yasmin's father dies when she is just six years old. Her mother, an author, becomes immersed in her novel and fails to notice that her withdrawn daughter stops speaking.
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Giesbert, F. O. Un très grand amour When a cancer patient decides not to have his prostate removed and instead opts for chemotherapy and all its side effects, his friend thinks he is making a bad decision, a decision which creates a rupture between them.
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Giordano, I. Mères et filles: nouvelles Twenty short stories evoking the special relationship between mothers and daughters.
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Giraud, B. Une année étrangère Seventeen year old Laura leaves France for Germany to become an au pair.
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Giraud, B. Pas d'inquiétude When his son falls seriously ill, a father is forced to take long term leave in order to take care of him. Slowly each member of the family starts to lose their links with the outside world.
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Girod, R. Ravissements The author creates a mystical, foreign and anxiety-ridden atmosphere where he explores the tragedy of losing the power of speech in a world of fantasy and reality.
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Goby, V. Des corps en silence Two overlapping stories, each telling the journey of a heartbroken woman. Claire takes refuge in the Hilton where she reflects on having left her husband. One hundred years before, Henriette is seeking revenge for her husband's murder.
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Goby, V. L'Échappée During the Second World War, a country girl becomes pregnant with the child of a German pianist. When he does not return from the Russian Front, she decides to travel to America.
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Goby, V. Qui touche à mon corps je le tue In 1943, Marie G. carried out an abortion on Lucie L. and is condemned to death by the guillotine. The novel also traces the thoughts of a third progtagonist - the executioner, Henri D.
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Goetz, A. Intrigue à Versailles Penelope, the heroine of 'Intrigue à l'anglaise', is transferred to the Chateau de Versailles and discovers a corpse on her first day.
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Gorz, A. Lettre à D.: Histoire d'un amour The author's moving reflection on a fifty year love affair.
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Gounelle, L. Dieu voyage toujours incognito On a summer night in Paris, Alan Greenmor prepares to commit suicide by jumping off the Eiffel Tower.He is stopped by a mysterious stranger who promises to fix all Alan's problems, if he hands over control of his life.
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Goupil, D. Femme du monde A book about a woman of the world, alone and wandering, like a bird which migrates from season to season. A minimalist, contemporary piece of writing.
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Gourdin, H. La jeune fille et le rossignol December 1939. A 17 year old girl arrives in France after fleeing from the horrors of civil war in Spain. Welcomed in by a family of bakers, she quickly strikes up close friendships with a mysterious girl and a great Catalan musician.
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Goux, J.-P. Les hautes falaises: Ou les quartiers d'hiver (2) Almost forty years after the separation of two childhood friends, a telephone call brings them dramatically back together.
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Graham, P L'Évangile selon Satan Science fiction. Prix maison de la Presse 2007.
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Grainville, P. Lumière du rat A student tries to deal with her feelings of inadequacy and becomes infatuated with the models photographed by Helmut Newton. She also finds herself confronted by her montrous neighbour. Written by a winner of the Prix Goncourt.
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Granotier, S. Tuer n'est pas jouer The reader is taken through a labyrinth of pretences and false paths where death is a game and the manipulation of art as an actor with a troubled past is finally about to find success.
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Green, E. La Reconstruction An interesting story about the meeting between a mysterious German visitor and a professor of literature at the Sorbonne. An exploration of memory and the reinvention of one's self.
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Grimbert, P. Un garçon singulier A solitary student accepts a job looking after a strange and unpredicatable young boy during a stay at a Normandy seaside town in low season.
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Grimbert, P. La mauvaise rencontre Loup and Mando have been best friends since childhood. In a small notebook, Mando records the events that mark their lives. Upon discovering this notebook Loup shows it to his professor, an act Mando sees as a great betrayal.
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Grimbert, S. Toute une affaire Sabine left her family at the age of twenty to pursue a career, love affairs, a life. One day, she abandons everything to return and work with her brothers in her father's factory. This book deals with the fear of missing life's opportunities.
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Grimbert, S. Le vent tourne Arriving at Marianne's party, Benjamin and Edmond are unaware that their destiny will be changed forever. Their hopes and dreams will be swept away before their very eyes, and the party will turn into a nightmare.
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Grobéty, A.-L. Jusqu'à pareil éclat Winner of numerous prizes, the author writes a moving, subtle and tender story about the relationship between a mother and daughter. A text rich in metaphors, images and personifications.
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Groult, B. La Touche étoile The life and loves of three women of different generations.
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Guène, F. Du rêve pour les oufs Second novel from the 21 year old literary sensation Guène, author of the bestselling "Kiffe kiffe demain".
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.65
Guène, F. Les gens du Balto BESTSELLER. The owner of the Balto bar is found dead in a town in the suburbs at the end of the RER line. Each chapter is given to a character who unveils his links with the victim. By the best-selling author of "Kiffe kiffe demain".
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.50
Gueye, S.M. Les derniers de la rue ponty Gabriel is a strange man, telling people that he is already dead, he walks the streets of Dakar pretending to be an angel. A novel reflecting on the energy and desperation of modern Senegalese youth. First novel from rapper Disiz la peste.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95
Guezengar, C. Sister sourire: Une pure tragédie The confessions of a rebellious nun who believes in "love, music and God". While in a convent she becomes an internationally famous musician, but everything ends in tragedy.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.40
Guibourgé, S. Le première nuit de tranquillité Fiction and reality are woven together in this sensual and shattering novel as the hero searches for his origins in India and Paris.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.40
Guillaume, D. L'arbre transformé The young narrator delves into his family history — his grandmother who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, his grandfather who made a fortune in French Indochina, his Hungarian poet mother and his mysterious father.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.70
Guinot-Deléry, P. La mort en carton The death of a homeless woman on the Paris streets is destined to be forgotten immediately were it not for a man living in the same district who attempts to retrace her story.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.30
Guitton, R. Abraham, le messager d'Harân Winner of several prestigious literary prizes, Guitton writes an epic novel inspired by old traditions and legends surrounding the figure of Abraham.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95
Guyard, P. Leur silence A man finds an old woman murdered in her home but instead of alerting the police, he continues life as normal and says nothing…Why this silence? Like the world of Patricia Highsmith or Simenon, this is a story of electrifying tension and suspense.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.60
Habib, C. Un Sauveur Aurélie was born in 1988 and grows up in a suburbs of a small French town with an alcoholic mother. At fifteen years old, she falls in love which leads her to Paris. On the isolation and instability of adolescence.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.30
Halberstadt, M. Un écart de conduite In 1974 Laura is condemned to six years in prison for drug trafficking. With the help of her grandfather she escapes, but has to break with her family, her friends and her entire life. In 1995, married and a mother, Laura's past begins to catch up with her.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £15.75
Halberstadt, M. L'incroyable histoire de Mademoiselle Paradis Passion, destiny and freedom are combined in this novel set in the 16th century, when a unique 17 year-old girl - a virtuoso pianist, beautiful and blind - meets a renowned hypnotist.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.40
Halter, P. La nuit du Minotaure A man leads an investigation when brutal murders are committed in the Alsacien countryside near where an evil creature lurks.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £12.95
Hamdi, N. La couleur dans les mains Yasmine lost her parents in the 1990 attacks in Algeria; now she lives in Drancy with her aunt and uncle, who deny the violence of the past. Yasmine is plagued by questions of identity and throws herself into painting to escape.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99
Hamdi, N. Les enlacés Rita leaves Henri when she discovers that he has been cheating on her. Trying to rebuild her life, she takes up dancing and meets the troubled Fred.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.50
Hamon, H. Demandons l'impossible: le roman-feuilleton de Mai 68 An original, tender and funny story about a family during the crisis of May 1968.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.60
Hanotte, X. Un goût de biscuit de gingembre Beautifully illustrated novel about an architect assigned a project to build a futile monument. Set in 1941.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £12.50
Harpman, J. Ce que Dominique n'a pas su Years later, a woman recounts the passionate relationship between her older sister and the hero "Dominique" who secretly loves her.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.45
Harpman, J. Mes Œdipe Inventive writer Harpman's revisiting of Sophocles. A play.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £8.99
Hattou, M. & T. Gilou Michou d'Auber Based on a true story. A Moroccan child is adopted by a French family in the early sixties and tries to hide his origins. Recently made into a film with Gérard Depardieu.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.90
Hatzfeld, J. La stratégie des antilopes Prix Médicis 2007. The final book in the trilogy dedicated to the Rwandan genocide. Surviving Tutsis find themselves face to face with their Hutu murderers on their release from prison.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.70
Haudiquet, V. Vie et morts de Quentin Vachdet Twenty-four short stories about Quentin Vachdet, bursting with absurd and fantastical humour.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.30
Heidsieck, E. Vacances d'été During a dull holiday with their friends at their home in Provence, François thinks he has made friends with the caretaker, only to have him ask for a pay rise …
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Henry, K. La désoeuvre In her sister's deserted house, a girl re-lives the traumas of her childhood and her sister's madness which took over her ambitions as a writer.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.15
Hermary-Vieille, C. Lord James Historical novel based on the life of James Hepburn, a Scotsman who fled to France only to return years later and marry Marie Stuart.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95
Herscovici, A. Stella Set a millennium ago, a shooting star is seen in the sky. Across the world people are fascinated by this celestial wonder but, isolated from each other, they interpret the meaning very differently.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.15
Hesse, T. Démon Upon learning that his Russian Jewish grandparents were assassinated by the Nazis, and that his father was forced into exile in 1953, Pierre leaves for Grozny to uncover his family history and finds a tragically abandoned town.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.30
Heuré, G. L'homme de cinq heures Paul Béhaine is leaving the library late at night when a man claiming to be Paul Valéry introduces himself and leads him to the Jardin de Luxembourg.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.15
Holder, E. Bella Ciao After thirty years of marriage Myléna leaves her alcoholic husband. He leaves for America, where through numerous misadventures, he slowly stops drinking.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.95
Honoré, P. L'obligation du sentiment Constructed like a detective story, this novel tells of a respected couple, together for thirty years and whose son returns after ten years of silence.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.55
Horts, S. des La panthère: le fabuleux roman de Jeanne Toussaint, joaillière des rois The amazing journey of a young French woman who becomes head of Cartier, and encounters many of the most celebrated figures of the twentieth century; Proust, Cocteau, Hemingway, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.65
Houellebecq, M. La carte et le territoire BESTSELLER. PRIX GONCOURT 2010. Houellebecq's long-awaited new novel is as controversial as ever and has managed to scoop him France's top literary prize. It's a novel which touches on many topics close to the author's heart such as father-son relationships, death, solitude and the need to be creative.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.99
Houellebecq, M. La possibilité d'une île Bestseller Prix Interallié 2005 The 21st century. A sect promising immortality to its members has supplanted traditional religion…. Houellebecq us back with possibly his best novel yet.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £27.95
Hubert-Richou, G. À l'enseigne du Grand-Coq Set in the seventeenth century, Théophraste Renaudot is handicapped by his unsightly appearance but gains success and notoriety as a doctor to Louis XIII.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.75
Hubert-Richou, G. Complots à la Corderie royale The year is 1665. Colbert decides to construct a new arsenal vital for the development of the Royal Navy. Here, the author plunges us into a thrilling adventure.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.65
Hulot, F. Les Pagès Through their journals, Anne-Marie Pagès, her uncle Mathieu and his daughter Dominique each evoke the upheaval brought about by the "Entre-deux-guerres" followed by the Liberation and the "Glorious Thirties." Enlightening.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95
Humbert, F. Biographie d'un inconnu A tale of suspense as a failed writer is hired to track down a rich business man's son, leading him on a mythical journey through Hollywood, New York and Los Angeles where the truth unfolds about the disappearance and a mysterious love affair.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.65
Humbert, F. La fortune de Sila In a Parisian restaurant a customer hits Sila, the waiter. Not one of the rich diners comes to his aid and yet, without them realising it, this incident will have a profound affect on all of them.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.20
Humbert, F. L'origine de la violence On a visit to a German concentration camp, a young professor realises that a photograph of a former detainee bears an uncanny resemblance to his father. On his return to France, family life as he knows it is utterly shattered.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.65
Hunzinger, C. Elles vivaient d'espoir This is the story about the emancipation of two women, Emma and Thérèse, who try to create for themselves a life of romance. Set in the 1930s, they will be separated by a man and the war.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95
Husetowski, H. Le printemps des pères Spring 1942. Ludovic thinks he may have just witnessed his friend Gaétan jumping off a cliff. Unsure, he decides to keep quiet as the villagers search desperately for the boy. In just a few hours, Ludovic's life is changed forever.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50
Huston, N. L'espèce fabulatrice A magnificent piece of work celebrating the power and diversity of literature which it instills in the heart of the individual. Emphasising the value of imagination which distinguishes the human race from other primates, this is a must-read.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95
Huston, N. Infrarouge Rena Greenblatt, an artist and photographer, joins her father and step-mother on holiday in Florence. Amidst all the splendeurs of the Renaissance, the holiday quickly turns into a nightmare.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.30
Huston, N. Lignes de faille ***WINNER PRIX FEMINA 2006*** Family saga taking place across the globe over half a century.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.95
Huy, M. T. La double vie d'Anna Song Renowned pianist Anna Song dies. Her husband and manager, Paul Desroches, retraces her life.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95
Hænel,Y. Cercle Prix Décembre 2007. One day a man decides not to go to work. Instead he begins a series of journies or "circles" starting in the streets of Paris. A mesmerising read. With black and white illustrations.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.80
Imache, T. Des nouvelles de Kora Michelle is desperately seeking the right day to tell her mother a secret that she has concealed from her for years. A fascinating meditation on the question of origins and of the invention of memory.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95
Imbert, M. Les disparus du Laogaï A doctor is imprisoned in a laogaï, a Chinese gulag, in place of a serial killer. Thrown into a world of criminals, his morals are tested and he descends into the darkest depths of the human condition before he can prove his innocence.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.30
Israël, B. Nos vies rêvées A novel about the difficult journey into adulthood and the mourning of youth, told through the story of three atypical and engaging characters.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.80
Jacob, Y. Un homme bien tranquille 1943. A man falls in love while he is enlisted against his will in the Wehrmacht and leaves to rejoin her in the countryside where he learns a new life as a farmer. Captivating and profound.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.55
Jacques Lanzman Le têtard World War II breaks out and young Jacques is intent on losing his virginity and joining the Resistance.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.70
Jaësan, O. Iceberg memories As an illness begins to affect an old woman's memory, she decides to finally confide in her two daughters and tell them the truth about her painful past.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.95
Jaësan, O. Le pouvoir des écorces; La nuit du symbole A woman decides to write a story about her mother after the death of her child. A promising poetical and lyrical first novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.65
Jallon, H. Le début de quelque chose A hotel complex built on a sunny archipeligo seems at first glance to be an island paradise to the first guests to stay there. However, unease pervades the surface of this perfection and riots prevent the guests from leaving. Autumn comes, then winter…
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £14.50
Jamet, D. Un traître Set in 1940, this is inspired by a true story about a young man who becomes the head of the French Gestapo of Neuville. A captivating and lively novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.35
Janicot, S. Dans la tête de Shéhérazade A novel about today's adolescents, double culture, self image, discovery of others and family relationships as 30-year-old Shéhérazade who is of Moroccan origin leads a successful talk-show and goes out with one of the stars.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.15
Janin, D. La vie sur terre Brilliantly written first novel about a successful lawyer trapped by his demons and two women.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.40
Japp, A. Un jour, je vous ai croisés Fourteen short stories from suspense master Japp.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.20
Jardin, A. Chaque femme est un roman Alexandre Jardin returns with his third autobiographical novel in which he tells of all the women he has known throughout his life. A series of touching and colourful portraits.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.70
Jardin, A. Quinze ans après (2009). The couple who inspired the film 'Fanfan' (with Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez) are brought together again fifteen years later. A novel about first love.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.35
Jardin, A. Le roman des Jardin Popular novelist Jardin paints an affectionate portrait of his crazy family and extended entourage including zoophiles and film stars…
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £15.50
Jauffre, R. Microfictions Five novellas in one on the theme of family relationships from the masterful author of the "Asiles de fous".
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.15
Jauffret, R. Asiles de fous Prix Fémina 2005 Are all families loony? This one certainly is. Highly recommended and a worthy prizewinner.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.15
Jauffret, R. Lacrimosa Talented Jauffret returns with this novel set out in the form of an exchange of letters between lovers, one of whom has committed suicide.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.70
Jauffret, R. Sévère A dark story of murder and domestic abuse.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.35
Jauffret, R. Tibère et Marjorie A story of the eventful love between Tibère and Marjorie, who love each other too much to be able to stay together.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.55
Jelinek, H. Le destin de Iouri Voronine Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française 2005 While first-generation immigrants Iouri and Genia Voronine have never adapted to the American way of life, their affluent son is an all-round success story.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £15.00
Jenni, A. L'art français de la guerre Winner of PRIX GONCOURT 2011. BESTSELLER. A friendship develops between the narrator and an old soldier who teaches him about the last fifty years of French military history.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Jensen, D. Une semaine pour sauver la France A Mr. Average decides to pass himself off as a government advisor with a mission to save France!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.45
Jessua, A. La vie à l'envers A man finds solace in his madness. Book comes with a free DVD of the 1964 prizewinning film.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.80
Jeury, M. Les gens heureux ont une histoire A great family novel with a big heart. Twenty year-old Fanny grills her grandfather about the past.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95
Jimenes, P. La conquête de la Pologne After a failed love affair, a young man decides to hit the road to Poland in search of his soul. Promising first novel.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £13.50
Joffo, J. Incertain sourire Novel inspired by the view of a painting in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. From the author of the perennial "Un sac de billes', well known to A-Level students in the UK.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.70
Joncour, S. Combien de fois je t'aime How many times does one love in a lifetime? The author of bestsellers such as "Que la paix soit avec vous" and "L'idole" writes eighteen stories about love in ordinary lives.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.60
Joncour, S. L'homme qui ne savait pas dire non Beajour loses the ability to say one simple word: no.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.15
Jones-Gorlin, N. Mérovée A young provincial policeman is brutally thrown into the middle of a full-blown civil war and finds himself in the company of a racist and violent police force just as he falls in love…
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.80
Jourgeaud, B. Père et impairs PRIX MARIE-CLAIRE DU PREMIER ROMAN 2008. In his forties and single, a man's life crashes down when he reads an article in a magazine written by his ex-lover which launches an attack on him and men in general.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.45
Jouve, P. Paris sans suite Pierre is a young photographer who tours Paris with a policeman, exploring the criminal underlife of the city.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.75
Juhel, F. A l'angle du renard A farmer of fox-like cunning seeks revenge on a cosmopolitan family who have moved into the neighbouring farm and begin to encroach on his land, taking him for a simpleton.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.35
Junqua, F. Kart When a bomb explodes on the métro, a young man on the platform at the time is unjustly accused and arrested.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £16.75
Kali, S. Abreuvons nos sillons Recounting the dramatic destiny of a young African man from his days in college in Vitry to his death in prison. An attention-grabbing, humorous and dark novel.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.15
Kalouaz, A. Avec tes mains The author attempts to reconstruct, decade by decade, the history of his father, born around 1917 and a soldier in the Second World War.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £15.80
Kanor, F. Anticorps After forty years of marriage, Louise decides to finally rebel and find her freedom.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.90
Kanor, F. Les chiens ne font pas des chats After the suicide of a rich, white woman's father, a black man is accused of stealing the money in his box. Third novel by Martinique author, previous winner of the prix littéraire Fetkann! 2004 and the prix RFO 2007.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.20
Kauffman, A. J'aimais déjà les étrangères A Parisian thirty something abandons himself to a life of reclusion, until a mysterious Eastern woman appears, who shows him true happiness. However, she disappears as suddenly as she appeared.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.25
Kauffmann, I. Ne regardez pas le voleur qui passe Prizewinning entry for this year's "Prix Marie-Claire du Futur Écrivain".
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.10
Kenig, A., & Morel, G. New Wave Set in a provincial town in the 1980s, a dreamy and solitary school pupil dreams of a more thrilling destiny and strikes up a friendship with an unruly adolescent.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.95
Kenig, A., et al Disneyland A collection of short stories by nine authors inspired by a stay at Disneyland Paris.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.35
Kerangel, M. de Naissance d'un pont BESTSELLER. WINNER OF PRIX MEDICIS 2010. The destinies of a dozen different characters merge through a project to construct a suspension bridge in California.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95
Kernel, B. Fais-moi oublier Four friends, two couples, unite. On the same evening, Louise, a journalist and reporter will travel to a country ravaged by war. Their lives are turned upside down as they face grief, violence and a difficult predicament between two lovers.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.30
Khadra, Y. L'attentat A surgeon loses his wife in a bomb attack in Tel Aviv. Was she the suicide bomber responsible?
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.95
Khadra, Y. Ce que le jour doit à la nuit BESTSELLER. From the 1930s to present day, this novel about colonial Algeria presents the chaotic journey of an Algerian boy whose childhood is marked by a family tragedy. From the prize-winning author of "Les Sirènes de Bagdad" and "L'Attentat".
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.50
Khadra, Y. L'équation africaine To help him forget his problems, Kurt is invited by his friend Hans to go on a sailing trip to the Comoros islands on a humanitarian mission. Passing the coast of Somalia, they are attacked by pirates.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50
Khadra, Y. La longue nuit d'un repenti A short story from the best-selling Yasmina Khadra. The war is over but Abou Seif returns home a changed man.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £9.60
Khadra, Y. L'Olympe des infortunes A small patch of wasteland is inhabited by a plethora of unusual characters, all of whom have turned their back on mainstream society. A profound affection begins to grow among these people searching for freedom and independence.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.55
Khadra, Y. Les Sirènes de Bagdad The descent into terrorism of a young man from provincial Iraq. Bestseller.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.50
Khoury-Ghata, V Sept pierres pour la femme adultère In the desert, Noor awaits her punishment. Guilty of adultery, she will be stoned. A French woman on a humanitarian mission attempts to intervene.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £18.25
Khoury-Ghata, V. La fille qui marchait dans la désert Zohra and Mathilde, half-sisters, are both in love with writer Adam Saint-Gilles, Mathilde's husband. They live close to each other never addressing the issue but when Anne arrives to write Adam's biography, their world is disturbed.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.55
Khoury-Ghata, V. La revenante Fifty years after the deaths of three French officiers in Djebel, their bodies are exhumed and one skeleton is found to be female. Then a young woman in a coma wakes up and, beset by hallucinations, claims to be this woman. Who is she?
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.25
Klein, P. Alice Kahn After a misunderstanding, the narrator takes the place of Anna, and as Anna she meets William Stein, a young, well-known photographer, who immediately confides in her. She lets herself truly become Anna, and loses her own voice.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £7.95
Kundera, M. Une recontre 'Une Recontre' is a new collection of essays by Kundera. It comprises a 'meeting' of his reflections and memories, his old existential and aesthetic themes, and his old passions, which include Fellini, Rabelais and Francis Bacon.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.65
La Patellière, Julie de Notre nuit tombée Marc returns home one evening to find that his wife has left him. As the weeks go by it becomes apparent that she will not be coming back and, as Marc retreats into himself, he starts to wonder if she ever really existed.
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Labro, P. Franz and Clara Love and classical music.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.95
Labro, P. Les gens The paths of three individuals, from vastly different backgrounds, cross in Paris. What they have in common is immeasurable loneliness and with each other's help they begin to leave their distress behind.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.70
Labrune, J. L'obscur First novel from film maker and script writer Labrune.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.75
Lacamp, Y. Le Jongleur de nuages Summer 1917. In the north of France, a camp of Chinese workers flee an Empire destroyed by famine, civil war and war lords. Among them is Isaïe, a man not like the others.
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Lachaud, D. J'apprends l'hebreu Frédéric has moved many times, following his parents to Paris, Oslo, Berlin, and never putting down any roots. Arriving in Tel-Aviv, he discovers a country and a language which he feels he can finally make his own.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Lachaud, D. Prenez l'avion Two survivors of a plane crash who didn't know each other previously develop strong attachments to each other.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.65
Lachgar, L. Belladone & co Poetry evoking the meeting between the being and the world.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £12.25
Lacroix, A. De la supériorité des femmes A subtle, funny and touching novel about the break-up of a long love affair.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.85
Lacroix, A. Quand j'étais nietzschéen At the age of sixteen, the narrator reads Nietzsche for the first time. Written by the Editor in Chief of 'Philosophy Magazine', this novel shows how the discovery of philosophy can transform your life, and not always for the better.
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Ladjali, C. Ordalie Orphaned during World War Two, Zak is sent to live with his uncle in Austria. Nostalgic for the Reich he becomes obsessed with his young cousin Ilse, and is torn as he watches her fall in love with a young Jewish poet.
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Ladjali, C. Les Vies d'Emily Pearl Ladjali explores the condition of a young English woman at the dawn of a new century when she is employed as a private tutor for the son of a Lord and writes about her frustrations and dreams to join her sister in America. Set in the 19th century.
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Laferrière, D. L'énigme du retour PRIX MEDICIS 2009. A semi-autobiographical novel about Laferrière's journey to the exiled homeland of his recently deceased father. Accompanied by his young nephew, the author records his journey to Haiti in a mixture of poetry and prose.
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Laferrière, D. Tout bouge autour de moi Laferrière was invited to a literary festival in Port-au-Prince and found himself shaken by the 2010 earthquake. This is his testimony of the aftermath of the disaster.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.95
Lafon, L. Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête que s'annonce The narrator, a retired dancer, tells the story of the life of her best friend who has just died. Together they shared a passion for dance and a terrible secret, which they never revealed.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99
Lafon, M.-H. L'annonce Thirty-seven year old mother Annette falls in love with a Paul, a farmer from the North of France. She decides to leave her alcoholic husband to start a new life in the countryside.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.75
Laget, T. Madame Deloblat The protagonist seemingly has everything but like a modern-day Mme Bovary, when a psychiatrist can't help, she finds other ways to escape her boredom…
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £14.90
Lagier, P. Nous dormirons ensemble On his death bed, an old man passes his grandson a letter to give to a mysterious woman. The grandson's curiosity will lead him to uncover a dark secret which hangs over the whole family.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99
Lainé, P. Le mystère de la Tour Eiffel A novel about the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £20.85
Laliberté, S. Je suis formidable mais cela ne dure jamais très longtemps Collection of "phrases" uniting love, death, truth and life. Full of humour and wisdom, welcome to the magical and crazy world of Sylvie Laliberté!
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £13.95
Lamarche, L. Macadam blues A dark novel, set in the Parisian underworld of drug addicts. A far-right extremist group obtain a new drug, determined to use it as a weapon.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £12.45
Lambert, E. Un peu de vie dans la mienne Retired Paul lives in a home. When he receives a letter from a woman he once loved, he leaves the peace of the home and confronts the world again.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £13.99
Lambert, M. Touche de désastre, Un The award-winning author returns with novel in which characters that seem worlds apart are cleverly drawn together in tough times.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.15
Lambert, P.J. Les murmures du tombeau Languedoc 1209: a young noble woman dies in a small cave. A manuscript she has desperately tried to protect lies undiscovered for 800 years. Paris 2009: a series of murders baffles the police. What does the killer want? And how are the murders linked to an old religious conflict?
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.45
Lambron, M. Théorie du chiffon The great French fashion designer, Jean-Louis Beaujour, gives an interview to Hélène Dumas. A satirical novel about fashion, culture and style.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £15.85
Landon, E. La tache aveugle Three sisters, united by their passion for painting, join the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts; Fanny, Susannah and Diotime, who tragically loses her sight.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.80
Langlois, V. La grande éclaire This scientific thriller describes the lives of a blind woman, a painter, an American student, a Russian physicist and a young police lieutenant in an adventure which takes the reader beyond the ordinary perception of reality.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.85
Lapaque, S. Les identités remarquables A novel about a death foretold. A carefree yet arrogant and selfish thirty year old is threatened by an old family vengeance that will end in murder.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.50
Lapeyre, P. La vie est brève et le désir sans fin BESTSELLER. PRIX FEMINA 2010. Louis Bleriot, married and living in Paris, and Murphy Blomdale, single and living in London, are both in love with Nora, who flits between the two of them. A novel about the pain of love.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.50
Larnaudie, M. Les effondrés A novel about the recent financial crisis, as the ideology of invulnerable capitalism is shattered for a group of financial professionals.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.15
Laroche, H. La Restitution Whilst visiting Vilnuis for a conference on art during the Second World War, Henri Berg stays in a house whose owners organise the trafficking of abandoned and kidnapped children.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95
Laroui, F. Une année chez les Français In 1970 Medhi Khatib gains a place at a prestigious school in Casablanca and discovers a world very different to that of his family home.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.75
Lasserre, Sophie Août A family spends their holiday in a house in the Midi. In an effort to lighten the atmosphere of a disintegrating marriage, a couple of friends are invited along too….First novel.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £10.60
Laurens, C. Romance nerveuse The story of an unlikely romance between a struggling author and an ambitious paparazzi photographer.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.25
Lazar, L. Terre des affranchis In the Moldovan forest popular legend says that the lake Slobozia has strange powers. Victor Luca, a young man with murderous compulsions, lives in this forest, and is searching for redemption.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95
Le Clézio, J.M.G. Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies A selection of short stories from the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Le Guillou, P. Fleurs de tempête An intimate and moving story about the author's relationship with a woman who has now died from cancer. Unforgettable.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.95
Le Mollé, R. Pontormo: Portrait d'un peintre à Florence This historical novel is a portrait of the famous Florentine painter Pontormo — a significant 16th Century artist, yet also a tortured and elusive character.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.99
Le Ninèze, A. La controverse de Bethléem Historical fiction about St Jerome's translation of the New Testament into Greek and Latin; a translation that would have an exceptional historical destiny as the Vulgate.
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Le Normand, V. M. Si on rentrait A collection of short stories which have the home as a common theme: a place of dreams, fantasy, jealousy, refuge or prison.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95
Leclair, B. L'invraisemblable histoire de Georges Pessant Looking through an old copy of 'Paris Match', the narrator falls upon an article about Georges Pessant. A feared murderer in 1960s France who is still in prison. Against all popular opinion and evidence, the narrator tries to prove Pessant's innocence.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.65
Lefèvre, F. Un album de silence After the departure of her children and the betrayal of her husband, the narrator finds herself alone in her large house in the wintry countryside. To lessen the pain and melancholy, she tries to cling onto fleeting moments of happiness by writing.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.50
Leftah, M. Le jour de vénus Due to the increasingly extremist views of the orthodox Islamic Moroccan authorities, the passport of a radical feminist journalist is confiscated. A commissioner involved in her planned removal from the country is tormented by her beauty.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.10
Legardinier, G. L'exil des anges A group of scientists have finally understood the workings of human memory. If their discovery falls into the wrong hands however, it could be disastrous and they must do all they can to keep it secret.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.20
Lelièvre, M-D. Je vais de mieux en mieux When their teenage daughter runs away whilst on holiday a couple start to realise that their life and their marriage are not so perfect after all.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.30
Lélu, T. Jacques, Daniel, Nick, Oussama The hilarious and extraordinary adventures of Jacques Daniel, the new hero from Thomas Lélu, three years after "Je m'appelle Jeanne Mass."
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.25
Lélu, T. Le Parisien Written in the form of a diary, a young man recounts the last six months of his life during which time he fell in madly in love.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.80
Lemasson, A. La petite folie Two friends, Sara and Anna, who have known each other forever embark on a journey of self-analysis to discover why Sara can no longer write.
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Lemoine, A. Amusez-vous Claire has two children, is divorced, and will soon be turning 40. Taking a trip to the seaside alone will turn her life upside down.
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Lemoine, A. Que le jour recommence Stella decides to move, wipe the slate clean and start again. In this frame of mind she moves to a small seaside town, where one day an old love knocks on her door.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.65
Lenoir, H. La Folie Silaz When Odette Silaz dies, old quarrels re-emerge between her daughters, surrounding the disappearance of the father of her grandson. A vibrant novel full of life and emotion.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.55
Lenzini, J. Les derniers jours de la vie d'Albert Camus A touching fictional account of the last days of Camus' life.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.85
Léon, C. Noces d'airain Christophe Léon decribes with satire and cyninism the last 15 minutes of a couple's life as they finish by destroying each other.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.95
Léotard, F. La nuit de Kahina Max is a French war photographer who develops a close friendship with Bob, an Irishman in the Foreign Legion. Their friendship is tested when both men fall in love with a young Algerian woman, Kahina.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.60
Lépront, C. Le beau visage de l'ennemi A film director is contacted by an Algerian woman, asking him to make a documentary about the life of her recently deceased grandfather. The two men knew each other during the Algerian war but their friendship ended badly with accusations of betrayal.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.35
Lépront, C. Disparition d'un chien A young accountant is found murdered. The inhabitants of a block of flats start to lead an investigation under the eye of the narrator.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.65
Lériadec,Y. Les hommes aussi ont besoin d'amour A collection of charming short stories about men of all ages and their emotions.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £15.20
Leroy, G. Alabama song Prix Goncourt 2007. A rich and powerful novel about Zelda, the wife of American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald. A must-read!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.65
Leroy, G. Zola Jackson The new novel from the 2007 Prix Goncourt winner. Retired school teacher Zola Jackson is a unique heroine; stranded in her house in New Orleans with only her dog for company while Hurricane Katrina destroys her city, she fights to survive.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.75
Lesbre, M. Que la nuit demeure Confronted with Cécile, the spitting image of his daughter who committed suicide, the cop is plunged into the bitterness of grief. Lesbre constructs a clever and atmospheric narrative with his distinctive style.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £8.40
Lévy, J. Mauvaise fille (2009). BESTSELLER. Louise loses her mother as she discovers she is pregnant with her first child. A novel about mothers and daughters.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.20
Levy, M. Les Enfants de la liberté A World War II backdrop for bestselling Marc Levy's latest.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.75
Levy, M. L'étrange voyage de Monsieur Daldry BESTSELLER. London, 1950. Unable to forget a clairvoyant's predictions, Alice is persuaded by her neighbour, the excentric M. Daldy, to find the six people who will shape her destiny and lead her to the man she will love.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.00
Levy, M. Le premier jour BESTSELLER. An astrophysicist and an archeologist embark on a scientific adventure which will change their lives following the discovery of a strange object in a dormant volcano.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95
Levy, M. La première nuit BESTSELLER. Levy continues the story of his characters from 'Le premier jour'. A photograph sent from China allows Adrian to believe that his wife has survived the attack on them.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95
Levy, M. Toutes ces choses qu'on ne s'est pas dites BESTSELLER A father reappears in his daughter's life which leads them on a journey through New York, Berlin and Montreal in search of the man who the heroine fell hopelessly in love with when she was twenty. Full of suspense, tenderness and humour.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.65
Levy, M. Le voleur d'ombres BESTSELLER. A funny and delightful book about childhood and a young boy who discovers the secrets behind shadows.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.99
Liberati, S. L'hyper Justine Pierre al-Hamdi falls for a young English girl living in Paris. He discovers that she is involved in a curious project: she is making a film about her mother, a model who was murdered in Yemen.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.35
Liberati, S. Jayne Mansfield 1967 PRIX FEMINA 2011. A portrait of the actress retracing the final hours of her life before her death in a car accident.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Lindon, M. Ce qu'aimer veut dire Winner of the PRIX MÉDICIS 2011. A book which takes the reader back to the late 1970s as the author recounts his friendship with the philosopher Michel Foucault.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Littell, J. Les Bienveillantes ***PRIX GONCOURT 2006 & GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE 2006*** Highly praised first novel and this year's double prizewinner, winning both the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française. An ambitious historical account of the Nazi death camps told in the first person by an SS mass murderer.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.50
Loevenbruck, H. L'apothicaire Historical thriller set in the 14th Century.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99
Mabanckou, A. Black Bazar The narrator, an African dandy living in Paris, describes the world he inhabits after his girlfriend leaves him. The new novel from the prize-winning author of 'Mémoires de porc-épic'.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.65
Mabanckou, A. Mémoires du porc-épic Prix Renaudot 2006. Story of a murderous porcupine!
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.95
Macé-Scaron, J. Ticket d'entrée Winner of the Prix Coupole 2011. Forty-something journalist Benjamin is offered a promotion when his paper is purchased by a large corporation. He soon discovers though that his homosexuality will be held against him.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99
Mahany, H. Kiffer sa race A portrait of a fragile generation, written full of tenderness and humour. In Argenteuill, a brilliant pupil struggles with family problems, a betrayal by a friend and the arrival of a stranger.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.60
Maillard, F. Bleu blanc brun When a law student and supporter of the extreme right wing attacks a man, he is expelled from university and left isolated and jobless. Inspired by the attempted assassination of Jacques Chirac in 2002.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.85
Maillet, A. Le mystérieux voyage de rien 'Nothing' meets 'Nobody', who becomes his guide and adviser. They meet 'Somebody', and the three embark on a tour of the world. A funny and lively novel, this is a love story, an adventure, and a philosophical tale all at once.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.65
Mainard, D. Pour vous A 35 year old woman has created "Pour vous," a society which helps men and women to care for the body and soul. Mainard brings to life deeply human characters who speak about love, compassion, egotism, fear and individualism.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.25
Maisonneuve, M. Un génie de banlieue A young boy has been the victim of a police blunder and the city of Frais Vallon is at boiling point. His best friend, a mathematical genius, is approached by El Makir, but his mother calls for Dachi El Ahmed and his friends to put him back on the right path.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.65
Makine, A. Le livre des brèves amours éternelles BESTSELLER. A depiction of the sentimental coming of age of a young Soviet in the years 1960-1970.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.50
Makine, A. La vie d'un homme inconnu BESTSELLER. A Russian writer in his fifties, living in Paris, returns to St. Petersburg to meet an old lover, Iana. However, the romantic student he knew has become an aggressive business woman. The new novel from the prize-winning author.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.60
Malherbe, D. de Vie érotique A female dancer and a man are neighbours in an appartment and engage in a game of seduction. Delphine de Malherbe's second novel after the success of "La Femme interdite."
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.10
Malinconi, N. Si ce n'est plus un homme A book exploring social evil in stories including an illegal migrant trying to cross the border, a child begging for survival, a labourer who has lost his livelihood, and an African dying of thirst.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.85
Mallet-Joris, F. Ni vous sans moi, ni moi sans vous A kind of "Love, Actually" set in contemporary Brussels!
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.40
Mamou, Y. Une longue cuillère pour le diable A bomb explodes in the car of anti-terror chief Martucci. Fortunately he survives. Deciding to lead the investigation himself, Martucci uncovers a murky world of terrorism, corruption and the illegal international traffic of medicines.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.75
Mano Les habitants An ordinary family move to Val-d'Europe, a Disneyland haven from the stress of city life. But scarcely have they had time to enjoy this paradise, a drama unfolds with explosive results. A scathing comedy about morals.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.60
Mano Un monde parfait Two parallel universes in opposition; the bored inhabitants of one flock to the other at the weekend in search of cheap thills and highs. A depiction of a modern dystopia.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.35
Margerie, D. de L'Étranglée In a provincial town, a fan meets the author of a novel based on a random news item. De Margerie is a prolific award-winning author.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £18.80
Margerie, D. de La passion Brando After her dismissal from her job, the narrator looks after two twins for their busy parents.The mother is a well-known reporter and the father is writing a biography of Marlon Brando. Subtle novel about the uncertainty of child-adult relationships.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.35
Mari, P. L'Ange incliné A forty year old encounters a remarkable woman and, thanks to her, liberates himself from his mournful existence.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.65
Marie, R. Je A charming tale about a man who begins to write down all his words, thoughts and actions.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.80
Mars, K. Saisons sauvages In 1960 Port-au-Prince, journalist Daniel Leroy is arrested for criticising the regime. His wife, Nirvah, goes to the head of the government security forces to plead for leniency. He agrees but only on the condition that she becomes his mistress.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.75
Martin, J.-C. La chambre One room links three people together; juxtaposed with Hopper's tableaux and echoes of Hemingway's Africa, a love story unfolds which blurs the lines of dreams and reality. Debut novel from Jean-Clet Martin.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £13.65
Martinez, C. Le cœur cousu Prize-winning debut novel.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.15
Martinez, C. Du domaine des murmures BESTSELLER. In 1187 on the day of her wedding, Esclarmonde refuses to marry. Going against her father's wishes, she wants to devote herself to God. Winner of Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2011.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99
Martinoir, F. de L'aimé de juillet In 1960s Algeria a young teacher is torn between love for her husband, an army general, and her group of friends fighting for independence.
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Massat, A. Premier rôle Two young girls who resemble each other meet and form a love-hate relationship. Years later, Raquel finds Thérèse again.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.95
Matha, A. Épitaphe Raymond and Fargas, friends since childhood, share a dream to leave Africa for Paris. Whilst one succeeds, the other falls into a world of excess, until tragedy befalls them..
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Matzneff, G. Les Émiles de Gab La Rafale In this novel of a new genre, the author has assembled emails (les émiles) that he has sent to various people: friends, lovers, readers, etc. which he has composed as a soap opera.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £16.50
Mauduit, J. Tant de feuilles emportées par les jours Historical fiction set during the French Revolution. Two apparently separate lives intertwine.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95
Mauvignier, L. Des hommes BESTSELLER. Bernaud, Rabut and Février were sent to Algeria in the 1960s war of independence. Upon their return to France their lives go back to normal, but even forty years later the past still haunts them.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.95
McNeil, D. Tangage et roulis Author writing in French as a second language. An attempt to go clean becomes the pretext for a trip to Montreal.
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £12.65
Meckert, J. Homme au Marteau, L' Along the same lines as his bestseller "Les Coups', Meckert's novel focuses on a civil servant stifled by a repetitive, suffocating existence.
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Mehdevi, A. D. La Relieuse du Gué In a village in the Dordogne, a woman has opened a book-binding business and is visited by a mysterious stranger who entrusts an old book to her for restoration. A novel full of warmth and sensuality.
New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.30
Melki, P. Au paradis de Candide At the Académie française, a janitor discovers lost chapters from Voltaire's manuscript. The 21 year old author demonstrates his love of words, his erudition and virtuosity with this first novel.
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Le Men, Y. Si tu me quittes, je m'en vais A 25-year-old poet falls madly in love with a film star…who isn't really a film star. An improbable, poetic and intense love story.
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Mengel, K. Les Séditions Roman Cortès works as a official translator for the United Nations, but is a double, triple, even quadruple agent working for many mysterious parties in dangerous times.
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Merle, O. L'avers et le revers Our narrator here is the valet of Pierre de Siorac, one of the heroes of Robert Merle's saga 'La Fortune de France'. As a man of the people, he describes this life during the troubled times of the 16th Century.
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Mérot, P. Kennedy Junior Kennedy Junior is the nickname of Ulysse, a young Parisian teenager who rebels against his bohemian parents. A satirical novel, taking a critical look at what it means to be an adolescent.
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Mézan, C. Un Pianiste vu de dos Sensual, musical narrative telling the story of a lightening meeting between a journalist and virtuouso pianist.
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Miano, L. Ces âmes chagrines Antoine went to boarding school in France but his summers were spent in his parents' homeland, the fictional Mboasu, where he has never felt at home. He feels that his mother did not love him enough and takes out his anger on other people.
New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.50
Miano, L. Contours du jour qui vient Little Musango carries the blame for everything wrong in a country ravaged by war. When she is chased from her village, she vows to find her mother again. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2006. Author Léonora Miano is from Cameroun.
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Michaux, A. Le témoin Set in Siberia in 1918, 'Le Témoin' is the story of Ivan, who is escorting the Tsar and his family to their death. It is the story of this young Russian man, whose Russian heart never stops beating.
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.30
Michelet, C. Ils attendaient l'aurore In the winter of 1940 as the Germans occupy Paris, three friends must choose their paths. Jean escapes the clutches of the police and joins the Resistance as René is deported to a German work camp. Albert chooses collaboration.
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Michelet, C. Quand ce jour viendra After the success of "Quelque part dans le monde" (Prix du roman populaire 2007), this novel recounts the adventures of two lovers in the US and Europe in 1916.
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Michon, P. Les onze Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2009. A historical novel set during the French Revolution which brings to life the celebrated eleven of the 'Comité de salut public' of 1794.
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Mielczareck, V. Le Voyage de Léa Following a car accident, Léa leaves her body behind and ascends up into the sky. There she is told she has the opportunity to return to earth but only on certain conditions … .
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Millet, C. Jour de souffrance BESTSELLER. Seven years after "La vie sexuelle de Catherine M.", Millet returns with this novel which recounts her jealousy as her straying husband causes her psychological hell. Written in beautiful language, with clarity, elegance and nuance.
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Millet, Richard La fiancée libanaise A renowned and misanthropic writer is interviewed by a young Lebanese woman who is writing a thesis on the place of women in his work.
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Minard, C. Bastard Battle Set in 1437 during a massacre led by the Bastard de Bourbon, the author creates a story full of suspense and new developments with a dynamic narrative.
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Mingarelli, H. L'année du soulèvement Following a revolt that has overturned the government, guards Clétus and Daniel are required to spend the night watching ex-policeman and now prisoner awaiting trial, San Vitto. Slowly the three men get to know each other.
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Minoui, D. Les pintades a Téhéran: Chroniques de la vie des iraniennes Sex in the City Iranian style… Colourful fly-on-the wall glimpse at the lives of young women in contemporary Tehran.
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Modiano, P. Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue Set in left bank Paris of the 1960s, this novel was recommended best read of the year by the "Le Point" magazine.
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Modiano, P. L'horizon BESTSELLER. Patrick Modiano's eagerly awaited new novel tells the story of Jean Bosmans. Jean is writing down his childhood memories when an old acquaintance, Margaret Le Coz, comes to mind. All of a sudden he throws himself into finding her.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.50
Moï, A. Violon From the best selling author of last year's "Riz noir".
New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £14.99
Monénembo, T. Le roi de Kahel PRIX RENAUDOT 2008. A biography of adventurer Aimé Victor Olivier, the vicomte de Sanderval, set in West Africa at the end of the Nineteenth Century, setting the scene for the colonisation of the region.
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Monnier, A Le roman de la seconde vie Science fiction. What would happen if everybody had the unquestioned right to a parallel virtual life?
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Monnier, A. Givrée A novel which demonstrates that the little things in life can be as uplifting as big ideas, especially when it comes to refrigerator maintenance!
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Monnier, A. Je vous raconterai In a society marred by poverty and violence, one man is feeling suicidal. He is approached by a mafia gangster and challenged to a game of Russian roulette.
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Montaigne, T. de Les caractères sexuels secondaires An A-Z account of a woman whose husband left her and who returned to live with her mother and consider how to reclaim her normal life.
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Morand, P. Les Extravagants Reprint of diplomat Morand's very first novel written between 1910 and 1911 and inspired by his stay in England. The novel traces the aesthetic and moral education of a young man, Simon de Biéville, at the hands of two women.
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Mordillat, G. Notre part des ténèbres An action-filled novel which takes place when a company takes control of a ship. Chaos ensues as individuals struggle for power, against betrayal and vengeance.
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Moreau, N. Se hisser (2009). A young French woman living in London awaits the visit of her sister. The two sisters can't stand each other, but will this visit change their minds?
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Morgensztern, F. La valise de Véra After the suicide of Vera, her daughter inherits the contents of her suitcase which hold the key to her secrets and lead her back to the 1930s when her grandmother fled from Poland to America. Three colourful destinies marked by history.
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Morgiève, R. Cheval The Chevals, father and son, run a fairground ride. This book, set in the 1960s, explores familial relations in the same vein as 'Mon petit garçon', an earlier novel from the same author.
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Morgiève, R. Miracles et légendes de mon pays en guerre Thriller set during WWII.
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.60
Morin, P. Biographie de Pavel Munch A famous and scandalous sculptor disappears without a trace.
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Motsch, E. La bécassine de Wilson Gabriel is autistic. His parents are fighting to understand the illness and to protect their son from the difficulties of everyday life. The story takes place during the holidays when Gabriel is taking a walk in the countryside, searching for a bird.
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Mukasonga, S. L'Iguifou: Nouvelles rwandaises A collection of short stories set during and after the Rwandan genocide from the prize-winning author.
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Muller, M.-M. Les enfants de l'Arche A sensitive and passionate novel paying hommage to the men and women of Caux. In the 1960s a private detective lives a chaotic existence until two men set him a mission - to track down a family who, in 1944, took them in and saved their lives.
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Musso, G. L'appel de l'ange BESTSELLER. After accidently bumping into each other at JFK, Madeline and Jonathan retrieve the wrong mobiles. Now 10,000 kilometres apart, they both give in to temptation and look at the contents. Only to discover that they share a secret which they thought long since buried.
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Musso, G. La fille de papier BESTSELLER. During a stormy evening, the heroine of one of his novels falls onto the terrace of celebrated novelist Tom Boyd. She is desperate — if he stops writing, she will die. Boyd urgently begins to write and is taken on an adventure through literature.
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Musso, G. Parce que je t'aime A little girl is abducted from a shopping mall in Los Angeles. Five years later she is found in the same spot she was taken from…
New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.90
Musso, G. Que serais-je sans toi? BESTSELLER. Musso's latest bestseller. Gabrielle has two men in her life — her father and her lover. The only problem is that they hate each other. Can Gabrielle help them resolve their differences before one of them kills the other?
New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.75
N'Dongo, M. La géométrie des variables A novel about the world of politics, from Mitterrand to Sarkozy, from Reagan to Obama, as seen through the eyes of characters Pierre Alexis de Bainville and Daour Tembely.
New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.85
N'Dongo, M. El Hadj N'Dongo unveils the secrets of a soul tortured by his own memory in this story about El Hadj, an immigrant who belongs to a Mafia family of Saint-Denis.
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N'Dongo, M.M. Bridge Road Part crime novel, part love story, the history of contemporary USA is told through the three main characters.
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N'Sondé, W. Le silence des esprits On a train through the French suburbs, a young woman meets a teenage African boy. She recognises that he is alone and frightened. In listening to the story of his life, she learns of his past as a child soldier.
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Nadaud, A. La plage des demoiselles Nadaud tells of the birth of his vocation as a writer. At barely 20 years old in May '68, he is initiated into love and writing.
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Napoléon Bonaparte Clisson et Eugénie Fiction based on real life events in the life of Napoléon.
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Ndiaye, M. Les grandes personnes Two couples are also friends. Eva and Rudy's two children left home years ago. Isabelle and Georges have a son who loves them and comes to visit every day. Each bear their own secret, but when the time comes to confess them, no-one wants to hear.
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Ndiaye, M. Mon cœur à l'étroit (2007). A couple of teachers, passionate about their jobs, encounter hostility from the local community. From the prize-winning author of "Rosie Carpe".
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Ndiaye, M. Trois femmes puissantes PRIX GONCOURT 2009. BESTSELLER. Three inter-connected stories about three women who dare to say no.
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Ndione, A. Mbëkë mi: à l'assaut des vagues de l'Atlantique Life on board a dugout carrying forty Senegalese villagers escaping from the poverty of their country to Europe. During the journey, the passangers are faced with violence, hunger, thirst and death.
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Némirovsky, I. Chaleur de sang Final unpublished manuscript left by the tragic author of the posthumous bestseller "Suite française".
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Némirovsky, I. Les Vierges et autres nouvelles Eleven short stories, most written during the Nazi occupation of France.
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Nicolle, C. L'Important c'est d'avoir connu l'amour First novel about a thirty-something slacker.
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Nimier, M. Les inséparables The story about the friendship between the narrator and Léa who have known each other since childhood but as Léa grows up, she falls into drugs and prostitution. From the winner of the prix Médicis 2004 for "La Reine du silence."
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Nimrod Le Bal des princes A young Chadian returns home after being unfaithful to his wife. Rich in human portraits, Nimrod describes the tragedy of power and the population at its mercy.
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Nimrod La Nouvelle Chose française The collection of essays in this volume are a profound reflection of an author in exile, the realms of his imagination and the boundaries of language.
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Nimrod, B. D. L'or des rivières Seven short stories about the author's childhood in Chad.
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Nothomb, A. Acide sulfurique Prolific Nothomb's latest novel is a vicious satire on reality TV.
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Nothomb, A. Le fait du prince BESTSELLER. Baptist Bordave steals the identity of a wealthy stranger who has just died. With a Kafkaian atmosphere and an original plot, this is an engrossing and entertaining read.
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Nothomb, A. Une forme de vie BESTSELLER. An instant bestseller in France, Nothomb's latest offering is an exchange of letters between the author and an American soldier serving in Iraq.
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Nothomb, A. Journal d'Hirondelle The annual publication every September of the latest Nothomb is always eagerly awaited. A hit-man commits a near perfect crime, only thwarted by a mysterious diary….
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Nothomb, A. Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam Bestseller. Winner of the Prix de Flore 2007 and shortlisted for the Goncourt. Amélie Nothomb returns to the Japanese territory of her thrilling "Stupeur et tremblements". A young Belgian woman embarks on an affair with a very singular Japanese man.
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Nothomb, A. Tuer le père BESTSELLER. Year after year, Nothomb's autumn release heads straight to the top of the French charts. This time she takes the reader into the world of magicians.
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Nothomb, A. Le voyage d'hiver BESTSELLER. Nothomb's latest offering is based on the premise that there's no failure in love.
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Nourissier, F. Eau-de-feu Inspired by the author's life, this novel traces his wife's slow descent into alcoholism from 1995 to her death in 2007.
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Nyssen, H L'Helpe Mineure Helpe mineure is the name of the house Julie has chosen for the old house she settles in after the war. Following the brutal death of an old lover, she retells the story of their love.
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Nyssen, H. Les déchirements A man tries to understand why his brother, who has recently died in a car accident, had always rejected him. His widow gradually reveals the reasons behind the tragedy.
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Obiégly, G. Le musée des valeurs sentimentales It all begins with the disappearance of the artist Pierre Weiss during a private viewing at the Chateau Le Luxe. Then his sculpture is mysteriously taken away by twelves Poles.
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Olivier, J.-M. L'amour nègre WINNER PRIX INTERALLIE 2010. 11-year-old Moussa is adopted by two Hollywood actors and is taken from his family in Africa to live in the USA.
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Ollivier, Mikaël Le monde dans la main Pierre is just about to turn sixteen when his mother disappears, leaving nothing but a text message saying goodbye.
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Olmi, V. Cet été-là BESTSELLER. The couples' retreat of a group of friends, which has been a tradition for 14 years, is a time for laughter, food and conversation by the Normandy sea. This beautiful harmony is interrupted by their meeting with mysterious adolescent Dimitri.
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Olmi, V. Le premier amour A wife is preparing an anniversary dinner for her husband when she stumbles across a mysterious note. Suddenly her life is turned upside down and she immediately leaves her house, her husband and her life.
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Olmi, V. Le promenade des Russes Set in 1974, the narrator is a young teenager who lives in Nice with her Russian grandmother. She takes refuge in her imagination where we find the heroines of Daphné du Maurier's novels and the mysterious Anastasia. An engaging and funny book.
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Ono-dit-Biot, C. Birmanie Prix Interallié 2007. When he makes a trip to Burma to interview an opium trafficker, César hopes for the scoop of his life.
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Orban, C. N'oublie pas d'être heureuse After a childhood spent believing there is more to life, Marie-Lila moves to Paris and a liaison with a young aristocrat opens doors to a new world. With humour and melancholy, the author considers disillusionment and the path to self-discovery.
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Orban, C. Le pays de l'absence What if we one day became the parents of our parents? A mother and daughter are prey to the harrowing effects of Alzheimers'.
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Orban, C. Petites phrases pour traverser la vie en cas de tempête…et par beau temps aussi. A collection of lively and pertinent quotations to get you through the day!
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Orsenna, E La révolte des accents After the success of "La grammaire est une chanson douce', Orsenna continues his humorous exploration of the French language. With colour illustrations.
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Orsenna, E. La chanson de Charles Quint BESTSELLER The story of two brothers who live in the same town but on different sides of the river. The younger has had only one love since his youth but the older brother has had multiple lovers.
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Orsenna, E. L'Entreprise des Indes A passionate, magical and thrilling piece of historical fiction, recounting Christopher Columbus' journeys from the perspective of his younger brother, a cartographer.
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Orsenna, E. Et si on dansait? A new novel by Erik Orsenna of the Académie française, with his heros Jeanne and Tom on more grammatical adventures.
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Ostende, J.-P La présence Bergman is sent on a three-month mission to analyse the feasability of turning a medieval castle into an amusement park. It turns out to be a solitary experience not dissimilar to the famous movie "The Shining".
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Ostende, J.-P. Et voraces ils couraient dans la nuit A ferocious satire of modern society.
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Oster, C. Dans la cathédrale The narrator describes the characters that have come in and out of his life over the years.
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Oster, C. Trois hommes seuls Marie invites the narrator who she became close to two years earlier to visit her in Corsica. He leaves to re-join her with his friend Marc and a third man who Marc has invited. By the author of "Mon grand appartement", winner of the Prix Médicis.
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Oufkir, R. Kahena, la princesse sauvage: L'impératrice des songes, vol. 1 In Seventh Century North Africa, the Queen dies whilst giving birth to Princess Dihya. The King's sister, a feared rebel and suspected witch, musters an army to reclaim Dihya. Magical and vivid historical fiction.
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Oufkir, R. Kahena, la reine guerrière: L'impératrice des songes, vol. 2 Unaided and alone, Dihya faces challenges to her reign from feudal lords. The Caliph of Damascus is lurking at the borders, attracted by the unspoiled treasures of this unfallen kingdom. Kahena must face murderous battles and betrayals.
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Outers, J.-L. Le voyage de Luca A couple decide to leave for America on a road trip after the birth of their son. A beautiful, memorable and tender novel.
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Ovaldé, V. Ce que je sais de Vera Candida BESTSELLER. Three women in the same family all seem destined to follow the same path – to have a baby girl and never reveal the name of the father. In their own way, each woman fights to choose her own future.
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Ovaldé, V. Des vies d'oiseaux A novel about complicated family and social relationships. Gustavo thinks that his house was broken into whilst he and his wife were away. However, was it in fact just his run away daughter living there with the gardener?
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Ovaldé, V. Et mon coeur transparent After the accidental death of his wife, a man discovers the truth about her and the secrets concealed from him. The author combines humour and poignancy, a unique and original plot with a universal message - do you ever really truly know someone?
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Pachet, Pierre Loin de Paris Began life as a newspaper column, this series of enchanting short texts dealing with both exotic and un-exotic places!
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Pages, N. I love NY In a New York apartment, then a country windmill, two old friends meet again to tell the story of a journey through the underworld of America. Pays homage to Jack Kerouac.
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Pancol, K. Les ecureuils de Central Park sont tristes le lundi BESTSELLER. Joséphine, Philippe, Hortense, Gary, Zoe and Gaétan - the popular heroes from Pancol's previous novels are back.
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Pancol, K. La valse lente des tortues BESTSELLER Joséphine has moved to Passy thanks to the success of her book but a series of murders troubles the tranquility of the district…
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Paquot, T. L'Art de la sieste A series of lively vignettes on the siesta in painting, literature and philosophy adds to the argument in favour of this delightful habit which represents an art of living and an assertion of human autonomy in an increasingly globalized culture.
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Parot, J.-F. Le noyé du Grand Canal: Les enquêtes de Nicolas le Floch Historical fiction set in the French Court of 1788. As the whole of France follows the revolts in the Americas, Nicolas le Floch is charged with the task of following the intriguing Duc de Chartes, cousin to King Louis XVI.
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Pataut, F. Trouvé dans une poche Prix de la L'Académie Française Humour and tragedy told with classic elegance.
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Patricot, A. Suicide Girls After the supposed accidental death of his father, a young professor's life is disrupted by a growing fascination with suicide. For Manon, subjected since puberty to boys' violent desires, death seems the only refuge. Their two fates will cross.
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Patricot, J.-B. Le Roi, c'est moi The school year of 1967-1968 marks a turning point in the life of thirteen year old Louis. Funny and sensitive, the characters are described with tremendous affection and the insouciance of childhood is effectively conjured up.
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Pavloff, F. Le pont de Ran-Mositar Bestseller Prix France-Télévisions 2005 The author of "Matin Brun', the little book that took France by storm, offers a compelling anti-war fable.
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Péju, P. La diagonale du vide Following the sudden and brutal death of a close friend, celebrated designer Marc Travenne retreats to an isolated and forgotten corner of the countryside of Ardèche.
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Pelletier, C. De bouche à bouches A car accident leaves a self-centred woman without the ability to taste. She flees her old life for the other side of the world where she wanders in search of flavours and aromas. She learns to cook and discovers a new appetite for life.
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Pelot, P. Maria During Nazi occupation, the Resistance beat and rape Maria because her husband is a collaborator. She will never tell anyone about it. Sixty years later, a young man is searching for an old woman he heard on the radio, whose tale moved him.
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Pena-Ruiz, H. Histoires de toujours: dix récits philosophiques Ten stories drawn from classical mythology, the Bible, literature and philosophy about inner life, desire, human kind and justice.
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Pennac, D. Chagrin d'école Prix Renaudot 2007. Comic novelist Pennac mixes anecdotes with reflections on the state of French education, the role of parents and the expectations of pupils.
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Pennac, D. Merci A comic monologue on the occasion of a prize-giving in which the narrator attempts to thank all those he is indebted to … .
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Percin, A. Bonheur fantôme At the age of 28 Pierre gives up his life in Paris to live in the country. He works in his garden, looks after his dogs and works on a biography. Although he is happy, Pierre begins to question why he feels the need to retreat and live as a recluse.
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Perez, G.D. Le goût des abricots secs A story about love and exile, inspired by the music of Schumann centres on two neighbours living in a deserted building which is about to be destroyed; one whose wife is driven into madness, the other an old man whose deceased wife was a pianist.
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Peslerbe, E. Peines perdues As a policeman investigates the murder of a man suffering from Alzheimers, he finds himself in the thick of the family's hidden secrets.
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Pestre, I. La onzième heure A sensitive and lonely girl befriends an Albanian boy who is unable to speak French. Despite the problems of communication they become close, until something dramatic occurs.
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Petersen, P. Iouri The Iouri of the title is a brilliant artist who, in reaction to the security measures of modern society, embarks on an artistic enterprise. Our narrator, with whom he shares his life, recounts her alarm at the changes in him.
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Petersen, P. Une livre de chair Only forty years old, Romain has a heart attack in the middle of a game of poker. Convinced he is dying, Romain reflects on his scandalous life from inherited wealth and a life in Hollywood, to financial ruin and a gambling addiction.
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Pétrès, D. Tu vas me manquer Preferring to flee than meet their fate, the destiny of couples is marked by a strange history. A funny novel which brings together remarkable stories.
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Phillips, S. La moisson de glace Book of the film "The Ice Harvest" starring John Cusack. Dark comedy about a lawyer's attempt at a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob.
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Piazza, A. La route de Tassiga In 1980 the narrator, a young primary school teacher, is employed by a large company in the civil service and sent to Tassiga, a small African town.
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Piazza, A. La route de Tassiga In 1980 a young teacher is employed by the civil service to work in Tassiga, a small village in the African bush. He is one of over a hundred French volunteers who are sent to transform this remote village.
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Picouly, D. 68, mon amour 29 May 1968: a crazy day begins. France is paralysed by strikes. De Gaulle prepares to join general Massu in Baden-Baden while the narrator leaves for Paris where he meets a publisher.
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Pineau, G. Morne Câpresse A woman is searching for her sister who has disappeared and goes to see the Filles de Cham who care for injured women on the summit of the Morne Câpresse. But behind the idyllic appearances, hide serious secrets…
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Pingeot, M. Le cimitière des poupées The second novel by François Mitterrand's talented daughter deals with the contraversial subject of infanticide. From prison, a mother recounts events leading to her murder of her child. Inspired by a recent true event in France.
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Pingeot, M. Mara Mara, a successful model, and Manuel, her rich businessman partner, make a suicide pact in Tangiers. Their lives are saved by a friend called Hicham who tries to understand the desperate actions of a seemingly happy and successful couple.
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Pliskin, F. Le Juif et la Métisse: histoire d'un bourgeois de Paris A university academic leads a peaceful family life until the day his neighbour makes a strange proposition. Terrified by the idea of meeting his daughter for the first time, he convinces the academic to meet her instead — with explosive results!
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Poivre d'Arvor, O. Le voyage du fils A sensitive, poetic Chinese man in his twenties goes to Paris to collect his mothers ashes after she threw herself from a window to escape from the police. A story about solitude, desire, intense meetings, and love.
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Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. Disparaître The pieces are slowly put together surrounding the death of a hunted man. Virtuoso novel shortlisted for this year's Prix Goncourt.
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Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. J'ai tant rêvé de toi Specialist in the works of the poet Robert Desnos, Youki Roussel makes a research trip to Prague to meet an ageing Czech poet, Kampa… Shortlisted for the Prix Fémina.
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Poivre d'Arvor, P. Petit prince du désert This beautiful novel explores the magic of childhood and nostalgia as a child is in pursuit of an idealised mother and a father heroically human. A hommage to Saint-Exupéry.
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Pollet-Villard, P. La fabrique de souvenirs An autobiography about dramatic and funny events during the author's childhood set in the 1970s in a factory called "La Fabrique de souvenirs."
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Pollet-Villard, P. L'Homme qui marchait avec une balle dans la tête First novel about a petty criminal.
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Pontalis, J-B. Elles Portraits of a series of seductive women.
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Pontier, A. La fête impériale Libertine novel
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Pontier, A. Le fruit du silence Paris 1967, a man instantly falls passionately in love with a woman. 1964, a man who is seriously ill goes in seach of his son. A man tormented by his past appears to know the links between them all. A complex story handled delicately.
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Pontier, A. Sur Mars: Récit de voyage The journal of an adventurer who walks on the planet Mars in 2016. He describes the Red Planet in terms of speculation and theories of writers and scientists over the years.
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Poulin, J. L'anglais n'est pas une langue magique Francis, the younger brother of writer Jack Walterman, makes a living by being a 'reader on request'. A romance set in the new world.
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Prolongeau, H. Américain, Américain A book about the life of Elia Kazan, one of the great directors of the 20th century with films such as "East of Eden" and "A Streetcar Named Desire.".
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Prudhomme, S. Tanganyika Project Travelling through East Africa by bus, a young man is hit by a sudden revelation at Mwanza station in Tanzania — the truth of the town is written across its walls in posters, advertisements, warnings. He is inspired to record the town's living history.
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Puard, B. Le secret de sept sages Historical fiction set in Ancient Greece. Athens is at the height of its power and is home to an intellectual and artistic revolution without precedent.
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Pujade-Renaud, C. Le désert de la grâce Set in the early eighteenth century. Jansenists accused of heresy fight for their survival.
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Pujade-Renaud, C. Les femmes du braconnier A novel based on the true story of the tragic destinies of the two women in poet Ted Hughes' life — his wife Sylvia Plath and his mistress Assia Wevill.
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Queffélec, Y Le plus heureux des hommes A young woman installs herself in Jules Marie's appartment claiming to be his ex.
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Queffélec, Y. L'Amour est fou Nothing is quite the same for reclusive Marc after his mother's death. He starts an affair with an older woman, Aline.
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Queffélec, Y. Dégustation, La A love story with a twist: He is a 50-something editor with a vineyard homestead, she's a 20 year-old wine taster. Both are harbouring secrets...
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Queffélec, Y. La puissance des corps A patient of psychotherapy experiences disturbing nightmares, mostly involving dystopian visions of the future.
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Queffélec, Y. Les sables de Jubaland The latest novel from the popular and prize-winning Queffélec tells the story of two young Somalians who dream of a new life in Europe.
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Quignard, P. La barque silencieuse Using short stories, historical anecdotes and biographical fragments Quignard explores a life without judgement, without society and without God.
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Quignard, P. Les solidarités mystérieuses A woman in her forties meets her old piano teacher who invites her to his house. Slowly she rediscovers the town where she grew up and her first love.
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Quignard, P. Villa Amalia Forty-something Anne decides to leave her adulterous husband. Pascal Quignard is a former Goncourt winner.
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Quint, M. Corps de ballet An ex-dancer from the northern French town of Lille reminisces. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the author of the hit "Effroyables jardins".
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Quint, M. L'Espoir d'aimer en chemin From the author of the international bestseller "Effroyables jardins". A puppeteer is employed in hospitals during the Algerian war where he meets Louis, an adolescent in a coma.
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Quint, M. Les Joyeuses When a director arrives at Sablet to frame three representations of the Merry Wives of Windsor, a young local boy, Rico, is named manager and intendant of the troop and has the role of supplying it with food and wine.
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Quint, M. Une ombre, sans doute Following the suicide of his parents, a man embarks on a quest to prove his identity and to shed light on their death. From the winner of the Grand Prix de la littérature policière in 1989 and author of the hugely successful "Effroyables jardins."
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Quiriny, B. Les assoiffées A female dictatorship excluding all men rules under the iron hand of 'The Shepherdess' in 1970s Belgium. Astute political farce.
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Quiriny, B. Contes carnivores Fourteen stories in which the fantastic is mixed with dream-like sequences and humour. Quiriny won the Prix de la Vocation for his first collection of stories "L'Angoisse de la première phrase."
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Rabeux, J.-M. Les nudités des filles The story of a theatre director's passionate love affair with a comedian and his fear of losing her.
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Rahimi, A. Syngué sabour: Pierre de patience PRIX GONCOURT 2008. Atiq Rahimi narrates the thoughts of a woman at the bedside of her husband who is in a coma, wounded by a bullet to the head.
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Rambaud, P La grammaire en s'amusant Written as a charming and instructive dialogue with a seven year-old school boy, Rambaud injects grammar learning with a good dose of humour!
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Rambaud, P. Chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier A story about the everyday life of emperor Nicolas I and his court during the first few months of his reign. From a prolific writer of important literary works such as prizewinners "La Bataille" and "L'Idiot du Village."
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Rambaud, P. Deuxième chronique du règne de Nicolas 1er Narrative exploring what goes on behind the scenes at the 'Court' of the French President, his relations with the media, the women in his life, etc. A pastiche of the memoirs of Saint Simon.
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Ramos, S. Le complot des apparences On returning to Barcelona, his place of birth, Igor Ramirez asks himself who is more crazy: the never ending carnival of the modern world, or himself.
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Rault, A. Je veux que tu m'aimes Thirteen-year-old David lives with his younger sister and his glamorous, recently-widowed mother. Often left alone, David invents games and stories to entertain himself and begins to question whether the absent mother he adores, really loves him.
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Ravalec, V. 15 ans et demi Funny and touching story about a father and daughter, loosely based on the author's personal experience.
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Ray, S. Mon besoin d'amour est impossible à rassasier The narrator falls passionately in love and sacrifices her life as a film-maker for him without ever receiving anything in return. A direct, honest and intimate novel.
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Raynal, P. Lettre à ma grand-mère The author discovers his grandmother's journal 60 years later recounting her 15 months of deportation in Ravensbrück. A story about the secret of a family, childhood after the war and the journey of a resistance fighter.
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Rebourg, D. Requiem blanc The Eberlin family are haunted by their history of lies, silence and accusations, and their lives are turned upside down by the actions of one teenage girl.
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Reinhardt, É. Le système Victoria The life of David Kolski is turned upside down the day he meets Victoria. Eleven months to the day later she takes her own life. David is almost destroyed by the role he played in her downfall.
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Réjault, W. La Chambre d'Albert Camus A collection of funny and tragic stories surrounding the world of the hospital. Written in a lively and poignant style.
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Réné, E. Quitter Moscou In Paris and Moscow, two individuals are linked by a strange coat. An original first novel.
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Rey, N. Un léger passage à vide An autobiographical novel, each chapter examining an aspect of the author's life: from his cocaine and alcohol addictions to his relationship with his wife.
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Reyboz, C. Chanson pour bestioles A poetical portrait of a dreamy, idealistic girl who decides one day to take her destiny into her own hands and return to the town where she grew up to reunite with her father but the train breaks down in the middle of nowhere…
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Reyboz, C. Pencher pour Lazor Hilaire is a member of a prud'hommes council who falls in love with an elegant Parisian lawyer at the turn of the century.
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Reza, Y L'aube le soir la nuit Bestseller. The result of author Reza's shadowing of Nicolas Sarkozy during his electorial campaign is a fascinating read and went straight to the top of the bestsellers list. Nominated for the Prix Renaudot Essay Prize.
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Rheims, N. Car ceci est mon sang A woman in Jerusalem falls in love at first sight. However the object of her affections evades her. She follows him to an old monastery on the outskirts of Albi, hesitating over the divine, or diabolical, nature of the emotion leading her.
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Rheims, N. Le chemin des sortilèges A young woman heads for a small village to find her psychoanalyst who left Paris and retired into solitude. A moving and intense novel.
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Rheims, N. Claude 'Claude' is by far Rheim's most personal book to date. A tribute to her partner Claude who died in January 2009, after a forty-three year career as a film actor, writter and director.
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Richard, J.-P. La fille tombée d'un rêve In Paris, Julien hangs a dreamcatcher above his bed, unaware that it will change his life forever. On the other side of the world, an Indian from Arizona who has the power of reading dreams sees that Julien and his daughter will fall in love…
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Rigoulot, J Et à la fin tout le monde meurt The unexpected return of an old flame discrupts Claire's unevenful life.. Prix Marie-Claire du Premier Roman.
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Riou, J.-M. 1630: la vengeance de Richelieu The year is 1630. Antoine, young apprentice to an architect, hears of a plot to potentially assassinate the Prime Minister and informs the cardinal.
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Riou, J.-M. L'espion de la couronne 1658: L'eclipse du Roi-Soleil Dunkerque, 1st July 1658. Young King Louis XIV is triumphant in war. Just a few days later he is struck down by a mysterious and potentially fatal illness…has the king been poisoned? Antoine Petitbois, state spy, investigates.
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Rioux, C. Tête de gondole After resigning from his post as a professor of literature, Victor finds a job in the book department of a supermarket where, underpaid, he resigns himself to spending 24 hours a day at work. Then he discovers it is haunted…
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Rivière, M. Fond de carte 23-year-old Rafael dreams of leaving Bordeaux. As he walks towards the train station, the memories of his city overwhelm him, and he misses all the trains. During the night his whole life unravels, and Rafael wakes the next morning a new man.
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Rivoire, J. Suicide et inversement Unable to cope with the pressures of her family and social class, Agathe attempts to take her own life.
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Roberts, J.-M. La Prière A novel about the meeting between a French man and a young muslim woman in the 1960s in London.
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Rochefort, D. La paresse et l'oubli Three friends in the final year of school, influenced by drugs, music and rebellion, want to change the world. Years later, only one of them has held on to his revolutionary ideals and he determines to commit a final act of rebellion.
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La Rochefoucauld, L.-H. de Un smoking à la mer Emily Marquises, a 60 year-old, ex-cabaret singer, has gone on a cruise to the Bahamas to indulge in solitude. But she did not count on meeting Vittorio, an alcoholic musician. They are convinced that they knew each other in a previous life…
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Roger, M.-S. Il ne fait jamais noir en ville Ten short stories about the ordinary lives of men and women in France and Madagascar.
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Roger, M.-S. La tête en friche A 45-year-old man lives in a caravan at the back of his mother's garden and passes his time between the bistro and public garden where he meets an old cultivated woman who introduces him to the world of books. His world is soon turned upside down.
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Roland, N. Kosaburo, 1945 In order to avoid family dishonour, a young Japanese girl masquerades as a man to commit kamikaze in the place of her brother, a deserter. She will prepare to die at the side of Kosaburo, her childhood sweetheart.
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Rolin, J. Le ravissement de Britney Spears An Islamist group are threatening to kidnap Britney Spears. An agent from the French security services (apparently the best in the world!) is sent to LA to investigate.
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Rolin, O. Un chasseur de lions Story about the adventures of the fascinating Eugène Pertuiset crossed with different episodes of the life of Edouard Manet.
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Roman, A. Le val d'absinthe L. is married with two children and works in a prison helping inmates prepare for university entrance exams. When one of her students is transferred to a high security prison, they start to correspond and a relationship gradually develops.
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Rongier, S. Ce matin A lorry collides with a car on the road leading to Vendée. A telephone rings in a young man's house in Paris. In the author's first novel, he contemplates the implications of the word 'accident'.
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Rose, S. J. Et nos amours A novel which deals with first loves and the resulting grief. Four narrators in their thirties recall the lost loves of their youth.
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Rosenthal, O. On n'est pas là pour disparaître Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste 2007. Monsieur T. is ill with Alzheimer's disease and is unable to recall why he stabbed his wife.
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Rosnay, T. de Le voisin From best-selling author Tatiana de Rosnay 'Le voisin' is a psychological thriller as a young woman is terrorised by a neighbour she has never seen.
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Rossignol, I. Au-dessous du genou A woman is seduced by an Egyptian during a cruise on the Nile and each tries to find their identity through strength and tolerance.
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Rouanet, M. Luxueuse austerité A hymn to the senses.
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Rouart, J.-M. La guerre amoureuse Whilst in Helsinki, the narrator falls for the beautiful Helena, a seemingly pure and innocent student. Their relationship will lead him to the very depths of Hell.
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Rouaud, J. Souvenirs de mon oncle A man evoques the memories of his uncle, with whom he passed the happiest moments of his childhood.
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Roubaud, J. Parc Sauvage Set in 1942, a girl flees to a large house belonging to an anarchist where she meets Jacques. Together the two children explore the "Parc sauvage," surrounded by a perilous adult world. An emotional tale about the power and integrity of childhood.
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Roudeix, S. Attendre A story told by three narrators from three different eras but all affected by a single event.
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Rouland, N Soleils barbares Historical novel set at the end of the Roman Empire and dawn of the Middle Ages in Carthage and France.
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Rousset, D. Un goût de miel A story following the lives of five characters from South Africa, the Philippines and eastern Europe who, like thousands others, seek a country which offers better prospects.
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Roze, P. Itsik Born in 1904 in Warsaw, a boy lives a modest existence in the Jewish quarter and seeks to earn a living in Berlin but must soon flee to France. Just when he starts to find happiness, war breaks out. By previous winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1996.
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Rozen, A. Vieilles peaux Three Balzacian novellas about one elderly couple. From the bestselling author of the short story collection " Plaisir d'offrir, joie de reçevoir".
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Rufin, J-C. Le Parfum d'Adam An ecological thriller penned by the author of award winning "Rouge Brésil".
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Rufin, J.-C. Katiba Four European tourists are assassinated in the desert in an attack claimed by a branch of Al-Qaeda. The US, French and Algerian secret services focus their investigation on Jasmine, a young French woman with a mysterious past and a husband who disappeared.
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Rufin, J.-C. Un léopard sur le Garrot This autobiographical novel by the current French ambassador of Senegal and winner of the prix Goncourt in 2001, chronicles the life of the intrepid doctor and takes the reader on a beautiful journey through his many experiences with humans.
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Rufin, J.-C. Sept histoires qui reviennent de loin BESTSELLER. Seven different short stories set in seven different places from Mozambique to Sri Lanka.
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Ruggieri, M. Pas ce soir, je dîne avec mon père How can a young woman grow up when her father refuses to? A funny, tender novel about father-daughter relationships, at the same autobiographical and universal.
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Rykiel, N. Tu seras une femme, ma fille An autobiographical novel by the daughter of famous fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.
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Rykner, A. Enfants perdus A group of children arrive at a holiday home by the sea, to spend the summer under the watchful eye of the owners. However, this summer, one mysteriously silent boy reveals violent tendencies and the holiday ends much sooner than expected…
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Rykner, A. Le Wagon July 1944, one of the last trains carrying prisoners sets off on the long journey to Dachau. Of the 2000 people crammed into 22 carriages, more than 500 of them will die during the journey alone. A monologue of a young man who survives the experience.
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Sa, S. La cithare nue Set in Fifth Century imperial China, a young aristocrat is kidnapped by a warlord and forced to marry him. Following his death, she becomes destitute and spends the rest of her life in a Buddhist monastery. Two centuries later, a young violin-maker uses the wood from her coffin to make an traditional musical instrument.
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Sacchi, H. Les Nébuleuses de Magellan A humorous historical novel set at the end of the First World War. Three young French men leave for Chile to seek their fortune and find themselves involved in a miners' strike. The adventures of detective Victor Lempereur begin .
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Safran, S. La Stagiaire The manager of a packaging business is in his fifties and is attracted by a 24-year-old trainee.
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Salsa, P. La signora Wilson A young French man has just arrived in Rome but the serenity is distrubed by persistent telephone calls for "Signora Wilson". He continues on his journey through the city until one day he is knocked down by a car…
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Saltiel, J. La cinquantaine bien tapée A divorced professor of philosophy finds herself in a dilemma when she falls in love with a young writer. She is forced to reconsider her past life, her condition as a woman and what she really wants from life. Elegantly and intelligently written.
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Salvaing, F. Maud & Matilda An interesting story, constructed like a film transcript about a love-triangle between a film-maker, a woman with whom he had a love affair years ago and a woman who he has just met.
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Salvayre, L. BW The tale of a man, BW, who has lost his sight. He recounts his life to the author – from his treks in the Himalayan mountains, to his career as an editor, and his time in war-torn Lebanon.
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Salvayre, L. Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique A fast food millionaire invites a writer to write a book about him in which he is naturally portrayed in a good light. A both fascinating and repulsive proposition.
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Sansal, B. Rue Darwin Following the death of his mother, Yazid returns to Algiers and the Rue Darwin where he grew up. Here he confronts his memories of his unusual upbringing.
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Sardou, R. Délivrez-nous du Mal A dazzling medieval thriller set at the end of the Thirteenth Century when a troop of men kidnap a child gifted with miraculous powers…
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Saumont, A. Les croissants du dimanche Saumont's works have been translated worldwide and in these short stories, she leads her characters through to loss of control of their lives and resignation in a world devoid of humanity.
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Saumont, A. Gammes Three short stories by a prizewinning author about life changing events during childhood.
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Schiffter, F. Philosophie sentimentale WINNER OF PRIX DÉCEMBRE 2010. Philosophical reflections on love, work, sadness, boredom, and many other topics.
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Schmitt, E.-E. Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange Six short stories linked by the theme of redemption. Followed by extracts from Schmitt's diary from the period of writing this collection.
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Schmitt, É.-E. La femme au miroir Three women living in three different periods of time are all trying to escape the image which society projects on to them.
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Schmitt, E.-E. Ma vie avec Mozart Attractive hardback edition with free Mozart CD Composer.
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Schmitt, E.-E. La rêveuse d'Ostende Five enchanting short stories about the power of imagination from the very popular Schmitt, author of "Monsieur Ibrahim et the Fleurs du Coran".
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Schmitt, E.-E. Le Sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir BESTSELLER. A ten-year-old Japanese boy growing up in a orphage meets a Sumo wrestler who takes him under his wing and teaches him all about the martial art.
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Schmitt, E.-E. La tectonique des sentiments BESTSELLER Surprised that her partner has not asked her to marry him, a woman decides to test his love for her but ends up breaking up the relationship.
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Schmitt, E.-E. Ulysse from Bagdad BESTSELLER. Saad Saad wants to leave Baghdad for Europe but faces difficulties in crossing the borders. A captivating story about identity, the human condition and boundaries.
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Schneck, C. Val de Grâce The narrator relates her childhood spent in Val de Grâce, evoking the smells, dreams and magical atmosphere.
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Schneider, M. Marilyn dernières séances Prix Interallié 2006. The unlikely duo of sex godess Marilyn Monroe and her Freudian shrink who was unable to save her in her final days.
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Schuhl, J.-J. Entrée des fantômes One winter evening, whilst the narrator is eating alone in a Chinese restaurant, film director Raul Ruiz comes to his table and asks him to play the role of the surgeon in "Les mains d'Orlac". What follows is a bizarre series of events.
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Schwarz-Abrys Gentil chapon touche du bois A mixture of fiction and autobiography about the fascinating, mysterious and inspired writer and painter Schwarz-Abrys.
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Sebbar, L. La confession d'un fou An idealist who believes he is above the law takes it upon himself to rid the world of those who cause misery and suffering.
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Sebhan, G. La dette Sebban's search for the truth about his father and about himself.
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Ségur, P. Vacance au pays perdu A graphic designer specialising in the packaging of food products discovers that the wrappings are full of dangerous chemicals and pesticides. He decides to break away from the system and escapes with his best friend to Albania, full of hope.
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Séguy, P. Et embrasser la liberté sur la bouche Historical novel set during the French Revolution. Théroigne de Méricourt flees from her evil aunt and goes on to discover love in England, freedom and betrayal in Italy, and finally a new world order in France.
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Seksik, L. Les derniers jours de Stefan Zweig On the 22nd February 1942, exiled in Brazil, the famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig committed suicide alongside his wife. Mixing reality and fiction, this novel recalls the last six months of his life.
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Seksik, L. La légende des fils In 1960s America, a boy and his loving mother attempt to escape his violent alcoholic father who has been damaged by his war experiences. A story of lost innocence.
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Séria, J. Que viva cinema! With the oncoming closure of his cinema, a man, sad and alone, watches "La Beauté du diable" for the umpteenth time. The unthinkable happens when the film's star offers his help on the condition that he lets him satisfy his fantasies with his wife.
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Serre, A. Un chapeau léopard In this beautiful novel, the narrator attempts to paint the difference of his childhood friend from the world, 'separated' from herself and her body.
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Serre, A. Les débutants Anna has spent twenty years living with Guillaume but when, at the age of 43, she meets Thomas she falls madly in love.
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Serreau, C. Saint Jacques…la Mecque Serreau's farcical novel sees three antagonistic siblings on a forced pilgrimage to get their inheritance! Recently made into a film.
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Shalit, B. Danse avec ma mère Eden Bromberg learns that she only has a year left to live. Her only small hope lies in a mysterious treatment where she must be quarantined in a house. Taking her elderly mother, whom she cannot leave alone, she encounters some strange inmates…
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Shan Sa Alexandre et Alestria The encounter between Alexander the Great and Alestria, queen of the Amazons, both at the height of their power.
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Sigaud, D. La corpulence du monde A day in the lives of three characters is skilfully brought together- a British soldier awaiting his fate in Bagdad, a man planning to murder his son in Marseille and a female novelist in the south of France writing about all three's existence.
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Sigaut, M. Mourir à l'ombre des lumiéres Tensions between the French people and their absolutist king are mounting. Robert François Damiens, a young servant, is executed for offending and hitting King Louis XV. But why did Damiens attack the king and was he acting alone?
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Signol, C. Au coeur des forêts The mysteries and magic of the trees will help Bastien to heal his seriously ill grand-daughter.
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Signol, C. Pourquoi le ciel est bleu A touching semi-autobiographical novel. Signol looks back on the life of his illiterate grandfather. He considers how the sacrifices both his grandfather and father made in their lives have shaped him and inspired his love of literature.
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Sijie, D. Acrobatie aérienne de Confucius In 16th Century China the emperor is afflicted with a paralysing fear of death. He is always accompanied by four doubles, who resemble him in movement and mannerisms as well as appearance. Eventually, no-one can tell them apart.
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Silva, D. da L'automne zéro neuf A young man living in a Southern French town spends a few days in the country and in Paris in autumn 2009. Through his diary, he expresses his thoughts on the fleeting nature of life, living in the moment, and our life and times.
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Silvestre, A.-S. Marie-Antoinette: Le printemps du règne In the court of Louis XV, Marie-Antoinette is in conflict with Madame du Barry. As she discovers the rules of French etiquette, Marie-Antoinette will gain full control over the intrigues of the court and become a true Queen of France.
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Simonnet, D. L'heure de pointe: Roman en quatorze lignes Fourteen short stories set on the fourteen Parisian metro lines.
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Sinoué, G. Le Cri des pierres The destiny in the Near and Middle East of four families of different faiths, from 1956 up to the terrorist attacks of 2001. A Syrian, Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli will try to prove that despite the war, love has its place.
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Sinoué, G. La Dame à la lampe A biography of Florence Nightingale worthy of a Sherlock Holmes novel, retracing her destiny through the eyes of a character called Jonathan Brink. By author of numerous prize-winning works such as "Les Silences de Dieu."
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Sinoué, G. Erevan Two Anatolian adolescents are forced to witness the massacre of their whole family. This novel recounts the hellish journey of their subsequent deportation.
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Sinoué, G. Inch'Allah: Vol 1: Le souffle du jasmin The first of a trilogy following the lives of four families — Jewish, Palestinian, Iraqi and Egyptian — from 1916 to 2001.
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Sizun, M. Jeux croisés Marthe's life collapses when her husband leaves her. Alice is eighteen years old and is bringing up her baby alone. Their fates cross and an astonishing adventure begins...
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Smadja, B. Le jour de la finale Anxious about seeing her ex-husband again after twenty long years, a woman's life is thrown into chaos on the day her son gets married.
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Sollers, Philippe L'éclaircie A photograph of himself as a happy two-year-old child plunges the author into a series of reflections on his childhood.
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Solminihac, O. de Nous n'avons pas d'endroit où vivre A young French writer is invited to Namibia to run a writing workshop for the students there. He discovers a town scarred by Apartheid and violence, with its inhabitants scared and adrift.
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Soumy, J.-G. La chair des étoiles In 1917, a woman is faced with her husband who comes back from the war a changed man. She is soon saved from her miserable plight by a young Jewish man and falls in love. A powerful story about a woman's resistance against the injustices of war.
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Souton, D. Je (ne) suis (pas) à vendre Forty-three-year-old Mélanie Coste is surrounded by an anorexic sister, an ungrateful teenage daughter, and a self-centred mother. A comic look at a week in her life.
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Sportès, Morgan Tout, tout de suite PRIX INTERALLIÉE 2011. In 2006 a gang of youths kidnapped a young man and demanded a ransom far in excess of what his family could afford. This novel tells of twenty-four hours of captivity, and the physical and psychological torture which ultimately led to the victim's death.
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Stasse, P. Hôtel Argentina In the middle of a sweltering Argentine summer a young man arrives in Buenos Aires, pursued by the secrets of his past, and the divisions they have created in his family.
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Stasse, P. Les restes de Jean-Jacques An adventure novel about the life of Paul Léonard who, dreaming of a better life, meets many strange characters.
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Stern, S. Chroniques d'un adultère Rosa Blum is educated and intelligent, has been married for 10 years, is a mother of two and loves her job. However everything collapses when she meets someone and a love story begins. Rosa imagines the possible endings to her story…
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Sulitzer, P.-L. L'Escroc du siècle Political thriller set in modern USA. The favourite to be the next president has built his fortune and reputation on lies, fraud and crime. Only one man can expose him – a beggar, once a millionaire and one of the candidate's biggest victims.
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Svit, B. Coco Dias ou La Porte Dorée A professional tango dancer agrees to give lessons to the author in exchange for her biography.
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Svit, B. Une nuit à Reykjavik Lisbeth is a self-assured successful career woman who invites charming Argentinian dancer Eduardo to spend the night with her in Reykjavik. But the night will not be as they imagined.
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Swiatly, F. Boire A short and cutting story about the difficult relationship which the narrator has with alcohol.
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Tacou, G. La mort n'en saura rien At the heart of this tale of a mother's agony, an island at war, and a family torn apart, is the love story between a young woman and her soulmate, which many say is against the laws of nature.
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Tadjer, A. Western Celebrated journalist, Omar Boulawane, accepts to look after his neighbour's young nephew, which turns out to be a lot more work than he had bargained for.
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Tadjo, V. Loin de mon père A young mixed-race French woman goes to the Ivory Coast for the funeral of her father. Through an emotional journey, she discovers her heritage and questions her own identity and those of the African women she meets.
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Taia, A. Le jour du Roi PRIX DE FLORE 2010. In a Morocco still living in fear, two friends, one rich, one poor, wait for Hassan II's royal visit. Rich Khalid is chosen to kiss Hassan's hand; Omar is jealous. A class war is declared which will end in bloodshed.
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Tajadod, N Passeport à l'Iranienne A passport renewal provides an opportunity for a portrait of contemporary Tehran. Very successful novel in France this year. Highly recommended.
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Tardieu, L. Rêve d'amour A woman desperate to discover more about her mother who disappeared when she was just 5 years old, goes in search for her past lover for answers.
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Tardieu, L. Un temps fou Vincent and Maud separate after one short night together. A few years later he calls her. By then she is a novelist, married with a child, and he is a film maker, and a shared project sets them up for a future meeting…
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Tessarech, B. Les sentinelles 'Who knew what?' is the question that haunts this historical novel about the Holocaust. Patrice Ovieto is a young diplomat working for the Free French in early wartime London, one of the few 'sentinelles' who knew the depth of the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
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Tesson, S. Dans les fôrets de Sibérie BESTSELLER. Tesson tells of six months spent in a cabin in the Siberian wilderness — moments of extreme solitude, the fight for survival, moments of peace and being at one with nature.
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Testud, S. Chevalier de l'ordre du Mérite When she arrives home from work the narrator is unable to stop herself from manically cleaning her house until she drops exhausted into bed at night. This obsession starts to cause problems in her relationship with her husband.
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Teulé, J. Montespan PRIX MAISON DE LA PRESSE 2008 Montespan was one of the first historical figures to challenge the legitimacy of an absolute monarchy when Louis XIV takes his wife as his mistress. Funny and orginal, Teulé's distinctive style never fails to entertain.
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Thobois, I. L'Ange anatomique A journalist falls in love with a painter and marries him. Some years later during a journey abroad, he is involved in an accident which has dramatic consequences. A subtle novel about the vulnerability of the body, the couple and re-birth.
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Thomas, C. Le testament d'Olympe Two sisters in 18th Century France. Appolline is sent to a convent; Ursule becomes 'Olympe' and is delivered to the court of Louis XV, who quickly tires of her. Appolline finds the dying Olympe, with only a manuscript detailing her adventures.
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Thomasson, B. Ma petite Française Hélène lived in Berlin when it was divided in two. She returns to the city to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall and meets David, a Jewish journalist who is trying to trace his roots.
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Thúy, K. Ru GRAND PRIX RTL-LIRE 2010. Inspired by her own history, Kim Thúy's first novel follows the internment of a young Vietnamese woman under communism, subsequent exile to Canada, and emotional return to her birthplace many decades later.
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Toledo, C. de. Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain Seventeen-year old Eugène Green decides to leave Reaganite America for Paris.
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Tordjman, V. Une fraction de seconde A story about the life of Enguerrandt who, at the age of eighteen, chose photography: the events of May 1968 in Paris, the war of Biafra, famine, the Black Panthers...Thirty years later in Nigeria, he asks himself why he became a war photographer.
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Tournier, J. Zelda A personal view of the passionate couple of Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald written by Tournier, translator of Fitzgerald's works including "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night."
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Toussaint, J-P. Fuir Prix Médicis 2005 On arrival in China a gift of a mobile phone seems inextricably linked to death.
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Toussaint, J.-P. La vérité sur Marie PRIX DECEMBRE 2009. A couple have been separated for months and, although they are both starting new lives, they cannot stop thinking about what the other is doing.
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Tremblay, M. La traversée de la ville Sequel to 'La Traversée du continent'. Here, we discover the childhood of Nana, who later goes on to become the famous 'Grosse Femme'.
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Tremblay, M. La traversée des sentiments A beautiful novel celebrating nature. A Canadian family in 1915 Montreal take a holiday in the mountains where family secrets are revealed.
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Tremblay, M. La traversée du continent In 1913, a 10 year-old girl leaves her adopted family to find her real mother and embarks on a long journey from Saskatchewan to Montreal. A highly emotional text from Quebec's most famous playwright.
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Tremblay, M. Le Trou dans le mur Former stars of Montréal's red light scene tell all…
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Trigano, P. La Canne de Saint Patrick The romantic life of the poet Antonin Artaud after he became aware of his messianic duty, as he travels through Mexico and Ireland.
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Trillard, M. Les mamiwatas Post-colonial Cameroon. Marc, director of the Alliance française, has to take refuge in his villa during an uprising. He contemplates his life as a white man in Africa.
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Trouillot, L. L'amour avant que j'oublie A man falls in love with a woman at a conference, but instead of writing a love letter to her, he decides to tell her true and invented anecdotes from his youth.
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Trouillot, L. La belle amour humaine Anaïse travels to a costal village in Haïti in the hope of finding out the truth about the father she hardly new.
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Trouillot, L. Yanvalou pour Charlie Mathurin de Saint-Fort is a young and ambitious corporate lawyer who tries to ignore his roots. One day his life is interupted by Charlie, a teenager seeking help who has turned to Mathurin because he comes from the same village.
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Troyat, H. Le pas du juge The unhappy tale of the poet of the French revolution André Chénier, guillotined in 1794 for believing in an ideal of freedom, conscience and expression until the end. Previously unpublished.
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Tubeuf, A. La Quatorzième Valse An evocation of the last years of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti's life, recounting his concerts, recordings, abnegations, illness and suffering and the hope that music can bring.
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Tugny, E. Le Silure A man and a woman get married on the island of Iseora. When the man dies during the war, his body is left floating in a well where he meets the "Sirule", half-man, half-fish. Together they plan the murder of the woman so that they can be reunited.
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Tuil, K. La domination The narrator signs a contract with a publisher to write about her father. But how does she tackle this chameleon of Jewish origin, committed to the Palestinian cause and a decent father? Tuil keeps the reader in suspense with this complex novel.
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Tuil, K. Douce France When a writer decides to pass herself off as a Romanian immigrant she becomes part of a huge bureaucratic machine. An investigation of the lives of immigrants and their desire to be assimilated into "La Douce France".
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Tuil, K. Six mois, six jours BESTSELLER. A powerful and wealthy woman embarks on an affair with a man she knows nothing about. He then threatens to expose their relationship to the press.
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Urien, E. Tu devrais voir quelqu'un When the married lover of Sarah, who dreams of becoming a writer, announces a month's absence from her, she shuts herself in her flat and begins to imagine that a male figure has appeared there, whom she calls Janvier.
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Vacca, P. La petite cloche au son grêle The 13 year-old narrator discovers his admiration for Proust as his mother is struck by a serious illness. Charming first novel.
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Vallejo, F. L'incendie du Chiado On the 25th August 1988, Vallejo witnessed a fire which ravaged Chiado, a district of Lisbon. This event inspired him to recount the meeting of four characters who refused to leave the debris. A mysterious fifth figure soon appears…
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Vallette, D. Les femmes préfèrent les monstres The narrator recounts her love life in nine touching and funny chapters.
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Van Cauwelaert, D. Le journal intime d'un arbre A 300-year-old pear tree, planted during the reign of Louis XV, has just been blown down in a storm. If only the tree had a memory, the stories it could tell …
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Van Cauwelaert, D. La nuit dernière au XVe siècle BESTSELLER The multi-award winning author addresses reincarnation in his new novel through a love story between a tax controller of Châteauroux and a young woman from the Middle Ages.
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Van Cauwelaert, D. Les témoins de la mariée Just before his wedding, a groom is killed in a car accident. His two best friends prepare to tell his Chinese fiancée, a woman they have never met. They expect to break her heart, but it is the fiancée who turns their lives upside down in the most unexpected manner…
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Van, M. de Passer la nuit In order to combat the solitude and emptiness of her life, the narrator tries to fill every hour of the day.
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Varrin, A. Omega et les animaux méchaniques Inspired by the music of Marilyn Manson, Varrin creates an imaginary world, in which a group of refugees in hiding for 100 years after the Third World War re-enter society.
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Varrin, A. Unplugged: Apprivoiser l'éphémère A love story between two people disenchanted with a world they see as materialistic and individualistic.
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Vassé, C. Lili Terrier, 7 rue de la Lune A touching comedy about thirty-year-old Lili who has given up on meeting her prince charming, until she meets the seductive travel author Joachim Bateman…
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Vasseur, E. Le goût du lait au chocolat A collection of stories bringing to light the malaise of today's adolescents. A disconcerting and surprising novel written by 18 year-old Elsa Vasseur.
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Vatinel, P. Les larmes du phénix In September 1988 Kim Young Im, a young teacher, flees North Korea. She is the only one of her group to survive the hazardous journey. Twenty years later a French journalist becomes fascinated with her tale but he is convinced she is not revealing the whole story.
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Veillon, A. Pourras-tu me pardonner? Jeanne has everything she could want from life. But at 18 years old, her life is turned upside down and she discovers that it has all been a sham. Will she be able to overcome her demons?
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Victor, M. Corps mêlés Ursulla Fanon is a 45 year-old Haitian woman. Having led a miserable life in the village of La Baie-de-Henne, she tells us her life story and how it changed when she met Roseline in Port-au-Prince. A story of friendship and desire.
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Viel, T. Paris-Brest The narrator reflects on the role his grandmother's fortune played in his leaving Brest for Paris. The real problem, however, arises when he has to make the journey in the opposite direction.
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Vigan, D. de Les heures souterraines BESTSELLER. Every day Mathilde takes the same train to work. Thibault, a casualty doctor, passes his time on the streets of Paris. Will Mathilde and Thibault ever meet, or will they just pass by each other?
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Vigan, D. de No et moi A precocious adolescent meets a homeless girl of her own age and tries to help her.
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Vigan, D. de Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit BESTSELLER. Winner of the Prix roman Fnac 2011. A sensitive and moving account of the life of the author's mother, a woman who suffered from mental illness and eventually took her own life.
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Vigier, A.-C. Ce frère-là Anne-Constance Vigier's gentle, humourous and touching novel explores the grief and memories of a middle-aged woman following the death of her brother.
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Vigier, A.-C. Entre mes mains A mathematician and a musician lead a conventional existence until the mathematician becomes pregnant with their first child.
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Vigier, A.-C. La réconciliation A funny and ironic novel in which misunderstandings are explored as a translator in her forties is forced to accommodate her tyrannical father without the reassuring presence of her adolescent twins who have gone on holiday.
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Vigier, Anne-Constance Héritage Gabriel leads an unhappy life with a partner who cheats on him and difficultiess at work because of his homosexuality. His only friend is Muriel, a secretary with her own problems.
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Villard, M. Bird A first-aid worker for the Parisian ambulance service looks for her father, a jazz musician who disappeared ten years ago and who survives by playing in the metro. One night, a murder occurs which implicates both of them…
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Vilno, P. de Elvire & Jeremy Despite their best efforts, Elvire and Jeremy find it impossible to forget the passion which consumes them when they are together.
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Vircondelet, A. Les derniers jours de Casanova 1798. Casanova is imprisoned in the chateau de Dux where he will die, but not before he has written his memoirs.
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Visage, B. Intérieur Sud A sensual story about a man who returns to Sicily after 8 years in exile searching for a former lover but, instead, stumbles upon a young woman who he does not expect…
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Vuillard, E. Conquistadors A novel about Pizarro's conquest of Peru and the fall of the Inca empire.
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Wagner, M. Landing Twenty years after first meeting in France, a man and a woman meet again in New York, having both fled from their past.
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Wagneur, A. Hécatombe-les-Bains An army major leads an investigation after the friend of a respected and influential business woman disappears and is feared to have been sold to a prostitution ring.
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Wajsbrot, C. L'île aux musées The lives of two couples cross in Paris and Berlin as they ponder love, art and time.
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Walter, A. Paula, en profil perdu The author explores the story of the post-impressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker who died at the beginning of the 20th Century aged only 30. Behind her personal history, the reader catches glimpses of the struggles of the time.
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Weber, A. Tous mes vœux After years of receiving letters from a secret admirer, the heroine finally meets her prince charming and falls in love.
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Weber, O. Le Barbaresque Exiled from Spain, Miguel de Cervantes is captured in 1575 by pirates and held prisoner in Algiers, commerical capital of the Mediterranean. He considers escaping, until he sets eyes on Zohra, the daughter of Hadji Mourad.
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Weerts, F. Les Sirènes d'Alexandrie A dark novel set in Brussels in 1984 where dramas and incidents multiply. Full of intrigue, recounting the poverty and hopes of individuals.
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Werber, B. Le miroir de Cassandre BESTSELLER. Cassandre can see the future but no one believes her when she warns of disasters. With the help of her friends, Cassandre tries to save the world.
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Werber, B. Le mystère des dieux Bestseller The eagerly awaited third book in the sci-fi trilogy "Le Cycle des Dieux" went straight to the top of the best sellers in France.
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Werber, B. Paradis sur mesure BESTSELLER. A collection of seventeen stories about the future of man, the future of the planet and the unconsciousness of our world.
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Werber, B. Le rire du Cyclope BESTSELLER. A new case for Lucrèce and Isidore which takes the to the heart of one of man's greatest mysteries — the laugh.
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Weyergans, F. Trois jours chez ma mère Prix Goncourt 2005 On his 50th birthday, a man decides to make a few changes.
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Wiazemsky, A. Mon enfant de Berlin In September 1944 Claire Mauriac, a nurse with the Red Cross, finds herself stationed in war-torn Berlin. She meets Yvan, a Russian immigrant fleeing the revolution, and falls in love.
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Wiazemsky, Anne Une année studieuse In 1966, Anne writes to Jean-Luc Godard to express her admiration for his work. The director asks to meet her and, despite their 20 year age gap, the two begin a love affair. An autobiographical novel.
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Wiesel, E. Le cas Sonderberg A novel about the confrontation between the younger and older generations in Germany and the theme of culpability by the author of numerous prize-winning works.
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Wilmos, B. L'album de menzel Returning to Wallenburg, the place where he was held captive during the last months of the war, François and museum curator Andrei, find a devastated town. All the inhabitants are dead apart from two girls.
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Wolniewicz, C. Le temps d'une chute A girl is abandoned by her father at an orphanage and takes refuge in a dressmaking shop. Her designs soon become a smash hit but her old demons prevent her from being happy. Rite of passage novel and a portrait of fashion in the 20th century.
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Zalberg, C. Et qu'on m'emporte Fully conscious of her impending death, Emma suddenly becomes aware of the gravity of the love for her children. Having denied her maternal role and abandoned them, this love becomes an obsession.
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Zemmour, É. Petit frère In 2003, the disintegration of a popular district in Paris into violence and conflict is causd by the murder of a young Jewish man by his best friend, an Arab. Lucidly written, based on a tragic true story.
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Zerdoun, M. Le danse de Rachel A young woman in the Algerian Jewish community is found to be sterile and thus ordered to separate from her husband. However, she is prepared to fight to keep the man she loves — even if it means sharing him.
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Zumbiehl, F. Manolete A fictional autobiography of legendary bullfighter Manolete (1917-1947)
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