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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
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| Various | 1,2,3… le bonheur en littérature | Short stories about happiness from Voltaire, Gide and many others. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £2.90 | ||
| Abécassis, A. | Soirée sushi | Rebecca and her friends, all recently divorced, agree to meet once a week for sushi and gossip. A story about the importance of friendships. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Abécassis, A. | Toubib or not toubib | A woman with a succesful career as a GP as well as a loving family suffers a sudden loss of self-esteem and goes to a psychologist, who refers her to a hypnotherapist. But the hypnotherapy doesn't go as planned and she ends up with super powers! |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Abécassis, E. | Mère et fille, un roman | A story about love, possession, admiration and emancipation through the destiny of a mother and daughter. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Abécassis, E. | Sépharade | 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Abiker, D. | Le mur des lamentations: Souffrez, vous êtes filmés | A caustic fable about modern life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Adam, O. | À l'abri de rien | BESTSELLER. Neglecting her family, indifferent to the attentions of her husband and the tenderness of her children, Marie decides to devote her life to the survival of illegal immigrants through voluntary work. Prix Roman de France Télévisions 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Adam, O. | À l'ouest | From the much talked about author of "Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas', a sensitive novel about the fragility of family life. Marie lives in the suburbs with her two children. Her job is dull and she worries about the childrens" behaviour. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.55 | ||
| Adam, O. | Le coeur 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Adam, O. | Des vents contraires | Following the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Paul is left alone with their two young children. Deciding to leave the Parisian suburbs where they lived as a family, Paul moves back to the countryside to rebuild a life for him and his children. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.15 | ||
| Adam, O. | Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas | Adam's beautiful story of a troubled young girl's search for her brother was recently made into successful film. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Ap. J.-C. | Grand prix du roman de l'Acadamie Française 2007. Set in modern Athens, 89-year-old Nausicaa asks her young lodger to visit a famous monastery on Mount Athos, forbidden to women, where he discovers a monastic community rich in history and influence. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.25 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Je t'oublierai tous les jours | |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Alexis, I. | Dès le premier soir | After so many parties, boyfriends and adventures, Elise and Delphine make a pact to have normal love lives and search for the perfect relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Alexis, I. | Je n'irai pas chez le psy pour ce con! | A cross between chick lit and a detective novel, Isabelle Alexis' gripping story recounts how two women cover up the accidental murder of one of their boyfriends. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Alexis, I. | Tous à mes pieds | A cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones, Patricia is a young Parisian journalist looking for romance. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| 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! Her boss disagrees and he fires her from the magazine to be replaced by a younger and "hipper" girl. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Amette, J.-P. | Un été chez Voltaire | In the summer of 1761, at the Ferney residence, Voltaire receives two Italian comedians who have come to rehearse "Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet", a strongly criticised play he wrote twenty years earlier. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Ancion, N. | Nous sommes tous des playmobiles | Collection of stories filled with observations on the banality of life and characters which we can all relate to. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Angot, C. | Les Désaxés | Relationship problems for François and Sylvie. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Angot, C. | Le marché des amants | A love story between a black man and a white woman. An autobiographical novel about love, prejudice and modern French society. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.70 | ||
| Appanah, N. | Le dernier frère | BESTSELLER. 1940. Nine year old Raj lives on the island of Mauritius. David boards the 'Atlantic' with a cohort of exiled Jews. Impatient to escape from the gravity of their destinies and the violence of their universe, they flee. Prizewinner. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Arditi, M. | La fille des Louganis | Pavlina falls in love with a boy she believes to be her cousin. But she and Aris have the same father and their affair destroys the family. Years later Pavlina returns to the island to search for her child who she was forced to give up for adoption. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Arditi, M. | L'imprévisible | A woman has just separated from her husband and asks a history of art professor for a valuation of a painting which she wants to get rid of. Everything is against them but their attraction is immediate. Subtle and elegantly written. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Donnant donnant | A young French woman leaves for Los Angeles to seek her fortune and marries a film director. However, a few years later, she discovers that she has fallen into a trap… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.60 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Malins plaisirs | Two men return to France after immigrating to Australia for 30 years. One is determined to take revenge on his family who treated him as a good for nothing. Fast-paced and exciting novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.45 | ||
| Assouline, P. | Le Portrait | The portrait of Baroness Betty de Rothschild has hung in the most prestigious houses in Paris from the time of Napoleon III through the Occupation to the present day. Assouline imagines what if a portrait could speak…? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Assouline, P. | Rosebud | Deciding to give importance to what is unpredictable in lives, Assouline chooses to draw out from the lives of people such as Picasso and Rudyard Kipling, the uncontrollable element which secretly gives rise to them. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Audeguy, S. | Fils unique | A sophisticated biography of the older brother of Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Winner of the prix des Deux-Magots 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| 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 wish: to be buried in Kenya. He embarks on a journey to find answers. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Audeguy, S. | La théorie des nuages | Akira Kumo, a Japanese fashion designer employs a librarian to classify their enormous meteorological library and to research a cloud-watcher and theorist Richard Abercrombie… A prizewinning gem of novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Audouard, A. | L'Arabe | The arrival of a stranger in a small village in the south-east of France awakens archaic impulses in the locals and provokes an explosion of racism, of which our stranger finds himself the victim and scapegoat. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.70 | ||
| Audouard, A. | Un pont d'oiseaux | A beautiful book set in the 1940s about the human race as a man becomes a correspondant of French troops in Indochina and feels the same repulsion for French colonialism as Vietnamese communisim. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.35 | ||
| Aulnoy, Madame d' | Contes de fées | A collection of magical fairy tales from the seventeenth century. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Authier, C. | Les liens défaits | A touching novel about the post-May 1968 generation. Christophe appears to have the perfect life with a beautiful wife, a successful son and a good career, but he quickly spirals into depression. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.25 | ||
| Authier, C. | Une si douce fureur | Valentine met the narrator of this tale years ago. Since then he has felt as though he missed his chance with his soulmate. When they meet again, he decides to not let her slip away; but she is hiding a deep anxiety that no love can overcome. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Autissier, I. | Seule la mer s'en souviendra | A sailor herself, Autissier writes about what she knows. Peter March enters the first round-the-world race to prove how well his inventions work. When he discovers his boat is damaged, he is forced to cheat to continue in the competition. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Badinter, E. | L'infant de Parme | Convinced that education makes the man, Ferdinand's mother charges a group of French enlightenment philosophers with the education of her son, hoping they will distance him from the pull of Dominican orders working to restore the hegemony of the Pope. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.25 | ||
| Banier, F.-M. | Les femmes du métro Pompe | A young man living in the 16th arrondissement of Paris falls in love with a Spanish immigrant a frequenter of the "Rue de la Pompe" metro. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Barbéris, D. | Quelque chose à cacher | A young woman is murdered in a small Loire village after visting her family. The narrator, the gardener at the local museum, befriends one of the detectives. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Barbery, M. | L'élégance du hérisson | BESTSELLER. A beautiful novel about life in an old Parisian building; narrated alternatively by the philosophical fifty-four year old concierge Renée and twelve year old suicidal child genius Paloma. Winner of Prix des Libraires 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Barbery, M. | Une gourmandise | |
| Reprints. Published 2000. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Barillé, É. | Singes | Marion goes to India with a mission. She meets some strange characters along the way. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Barrière, M. | Souper mortel aux étuves: Roman noir et gastronomique à Paris au Moyen Age | A historical novel set in the court of Charles VI. Accompanied by a collection of medieval recipes. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.60 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Bauchau, H. | Le boulevard périphérique | Set in Paris in 1980. Whilst accompagning his daughter-in-law on her numerous hospital visits to fight cancer, the narrator remembers his childhood friend who joined the French Resistance and died in suspicious circumstances. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Begag, A. | Le marteau pique-coeur | |
| Reprints. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Begag, A. | Le passeport | From the author of the celebrated "Gone du Chaâba" and current Minister for Equal Opportunities. Zoubir El Mouss is an ex-policeman the troubled city of Alger…. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Bégaudeau, F. | Entre les murs | A fly-on-the-wall look at a French school. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Bégaudeau, F. | Jouer juste | An excellent first novel in which the author mixes the subjects of football and love. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Behar, T. | Coups bas et talons hauts | The adventures and love life of Dahlia Arditi, a press attaché for a fashionable Parisian PR company. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Beigbeder, F. | Au secours pardon | Recounts the adventures of Octave, the hero of "99 francs", as he embarks on his new dream job in Moscow — to find the most beautiful women in the world. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Beigbeder, F. | Un roman français | BESTSELLER. An autobiographical novel by Beigbeder about identity, family and childhood. Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2009. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Belhaj Kacem, M. | L'essence n de l'amour | The secret n is the internal motor of love, never discovered but which we try our hardest to find. In a fiction-essay Mehdi Belhaj Kacem provides us with a painful but brilliant analysis of loving relationships, transferable to anyone. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.55 | ||
| Bello, A. | Les éclaireurs | Sliv is a secret agent for the Consortium to Falsify the Real. He is about to discover why and for whom he is working. The story of a great nation which will betray its values when the world needs them most; it is the story of the century to come. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.70 | ||
| Bello, A. | Les Falsificateurs | A breathtaking, paranoiac thriller about a secret international organisation, the CFR, which falsifies reality. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.45 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Au pays | Retired immigrant Mohamed returns to his native village and builds a big house for his family. Once built, no-one comes and he is saddened by his children's distance from their Moroccan roots. A story of uprooting and the consequences of our dreams. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Partir | A group of friends meet regularly on a seafront café in Tangiers. They dream of going to Spain, a country they can just see in the distance…. Prix Ulysse 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Sur ma mère | Written from fragments of memories, family stories, and conversations with his mother during her battle with Alzheimers, Ben Jelloun recounts the tale of his mother's life growing up in the old medina in 1930s and 1940s Fes. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Benacquista, T. | Malavita | An American family move in to a sleepy Norman village. A piece of advice…move out now! |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Benameur, J. | Laver les ombres | A stormy night brings Lea and her mother together again. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Benamou, G.-M. | Le fantôme de Munich | Summer 1968. A young American journalist of Czech origin wishes to uncover the mysteries of the Munich agreement and leaves for France to find Edouard Daladier, the last survivor of 29th September 1938. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Benzoni, J. | Les Larmes de Marie-Antoinette | The misadventures of antiques dealer Aldo Moroni, who becomes entangled in a series of murders following the loan of jewels belonging to Queen Marie-Antoinette. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Bern, S. | Plus belle sera la vie | Set in the 19th Century, a French 'Pygmalion'. François Blanc is a wealthy widower who marries the much younger and beautiful Marie. When François dies, Marie is left with a huge fortune, which combined with her charm and beauty make her a very powerful woman. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Berthelot, F | Hadès Palace | Science fiction. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Bertholon, D. | Cabine commune | A novel written entirely in dialogues plunges the reader into the world of fashion boutiques. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.60 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.70 | ||
| Besson, B. | Le secret de l'Imam bleu | A "blasphemous" writer is assassinated and a phonecall is traced to a known terrorist. Who is the mysterious "Blue Iman'? |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Besson, P | La paresseuse | A French boy meets a mesmerising English girl, Cynthia, in 1970's England. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Besson, P. | Accessible à une certaine mélancolie | Portrait of a war reporter with a complicated love life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Besson, P. | Mais le fleuve tuera l'homme blanc | Prize winner Patrick Besson writes a scintillating political thriller set in Africa. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Besson, P. | Se résoudre aux adieux | A woman plunged into loneliness after breaking up with her lover escapes to Paris. She decides to share her suffering with him by sending him a series of poignant and candid letters. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Besson, P. | La trahison de Thomas Spencer | Paul Bruder and Thomas Spencer are born on the same day. Growing up in 1950s Mississippi they become inseparable friends until they meet the dangerous and free Claire MacMullen. In the troubled era of the 1960s, their friendship is torn apart. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Bey, M. | Bleu blanc vert | Algeria 1962. When red ink is banned at school for symbolizing the colonial past, corrections to school work are made in green. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Bey, M. | Cette fille-là | A young girl searches for her identity in modern day Algeria. Through conversations with those excluded from society, she discovers the unspoken truth about women in her country. Prize-winning novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £11.80 | ||
| Bey, M. | Nouvelles d'Algérie | A collection of short stories set in Algeria at the end of the Nineteenth Century. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Beyala, C. | L'homme qui m'offrait le ciel | She is black, African and a single mother to a rebellious teenager. He is white, European and married without children. An unlikely meeting yet they fall in love… But can passion defeat social pressures and the fear of the unknown? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.90 | ||
| Billetdoux, M. | C'est fou, une fille… | Prix Anna de Noailles de l'Académie française 2008. Billetdoux writes about desire, love and obsession. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.25 | ||
| Billetdoux, M. | Un peu de désir sinon je meurs | The first novel written under the name of Marie Billetdoux, who formerly wrote as Raphaële but changed her name after the trauma of the death of the man she loved. Here she expresses the difficulty of living, and of writing, without him. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Binet, L. | HHhH | BESTSELLER. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Bizot, F. | Le Saut du Varan | After the coup in Phnom Penh, April 1970, a French diplomat encounters a young Cambodian thief who he takes with him by force. Five months later, her body is found. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Bizot, V. | Mon couronnement | When a retired scientist is honoured 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Blas de Roblès, J.-M. | Là où les tigres sont chez eux | PRIX MEDICIS 2008. A news correspondent 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.00 | ||
| Bois, A. | Et le jour pour eux sera comme la nuit | After Denis leaps out of a window to his death, his parents, sister and little brother each try in their own way to cope with the tragedy and the reasons why he did it. A debut novel dealing with young suicides and themes of mourning. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.35 | ||
| Boissard, J. | Allez, France! | By popular French novelist Boissard, this emotional, tender and joyful novel takes the reader through the adventures of a nine year old girl who is beginning a new school year and is living with her mother after the divorce of her parents. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Bordage, P. | Ceux qui sauront | Science fiction novel set in a world where the French Revolution has never taken place. The son of a factory worker and an aristocratic but disillusioned young girl join forces to liberate their country and change the world. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.75 | ||
| Bordage, P. | Le feu de Dieu | Thriller. After a catastrophy wipes out most of humanity, Franx must trek from Paris to the farm in Périgord where his family has also survived but is in grave danger. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Boukhobza, Chochana | Le troisième jour | Elisheva, a renowned musician, and Rachel, his pupil, arrive in Jerusalem for a concert. Whilst Rachel rejoins her family, Elisheva has set up a meeting with Daniel, a Nazi hunter. |
| Reprints. Published 2012. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Boulouque, C. | Chasse à courre | A novel about power and headhunting from up and coming young writer Boulouque. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | L'âge blessé | A poetic and haunting novel, narrated by an old woman and her younger self. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Appelez-moi par mon prénom | A luminous novel about the meeting between a young female writer and one of her admirers. Fluidly written. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Avant les hommes | The story of a tempestuous summer spent by an adolescent boy consumed by his desires for another man. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Le Bal des Murènes | A novel about the tumultuous relationship between a mother and daughter haunted by their past. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Mes mauvaises pensées | Prix Renaudot 2005. A confessional novel relating the weekly meetings between a patient and her analyst. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Bourcy, T. | Les traîtres: Une enquête de Célestin Louise, flic et soldat dans la guerre 14-18 | In March 1917 the French 134th infantry regiment are fighting in the trenches. One of their infantrymen is found murdered by the lake which separates French troops from the enemy. Military police officer Célestin investigates. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.10 | ||
| Bourdin, F. | L'inconnue de Peyrolles | A woman returns to Peyrolles where she spent her childhood. Although her father violently opposes her decision, she settles in the old house to re-build her life. She soon discovers the truth as strange and mysterious events stir her memories. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Bourdin, F. | Les vendanges de juillet | Classic family saga. A prestigious middle-class family adopted their youngest son thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.35 | ||
| Bourdouxhe, M. | La femme de gilles | After discovering her husband is having an affair, Elisa decides to remain quiet and hope it comes to an end. A touching and gentle novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Bourdouxhe, M. | Les jours de la femme Louise, et autres nouvelles | Seven stories and seven women for whom violence is a part of their daily lives. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Boysson, E. de. | Les grandes bourgeoises | A revealing book about the French bourgeois milieu sees six women desperate to preserve their comfort and lifestyle…. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Boysson, E. de. | Les nouvelles provinciales | Parisian journalist Diane Muller is asked to write a piece on Mulhouse, the village where she grew up but has not visited for years. A comedy of manners reflecting on prejudices towards provincial life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Bragance, A. | Danseuse en rouge | A dancer and an ex-tennis champion find themselves faced with the latter's jealous wife. Three monologues unravel the story of this trio. A powerful, graceful piece of writing. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Brami, A. | Sans elle | Léa is ten years old when her sister Solène dies suddenly. Brutally thrown into an adult world of grief, she has only writing to express herself. A poignant and touching novel about childhood and loss. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Brassens, G. | La tour des miracles | A novel written by popular French musician Georges Brassens. Set in Montmartre, the seventh floor of the 'tour des miracles' is inhabited by a set of weird and wonderful characters. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.65 | ||
| Braudeau, M. | Retour à Miranda | A patient is being treated for memory loss. A pharmaceutical company is interested in magic Amazonian plants. Are the two linked? |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Bredin, J.-D. | Trop bien élevé | A childhood memoir describing the life of a middle class family in interwar France. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.25 | ||
| Broca, A. de | La princesse effacée | June 1795. Marie-Thérèse de France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette is being held prisoner. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Brochet, A. | La fortune de l'homme | Six short stories in which the heroes are women. The first three stories examine themes of desire, joy and love, while the others centre on maternity and motherhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Bruckner, P. | Mon petit mari | The comic story of Leon and Solange, a short man married to a much taller wife. At the birth of each of their children Leon shrinks even more, as does his authority. Mon Petit Mari is a tender fable on modern society, marriage and the family. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Brussolo, S | La nuit du bombardier | Science fiction from this bestselling and versatile author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | Ceux qui dorment en ces murs | A lawless settlement on the banks of the Amazon justify their crimes with their own bizarre customs. Accidents, mutiliations and murder follows. Thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | La Fille aux cheveux rouges | Set in the London blitz of 1940. An amnesiac woman attempts to discover her true identity. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | Sécurité absolue | Thriller set in California. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Buron, N. de | Où sont mes lunettes? | A humorous novel about growing old. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Calandon, S. | Une promesse | Winner of the prix Médicis, this is a delicate novel about the power of fraternity and the passing of time. Seven friends visit the home of a dead couple as if they were still alive, keeping a promise to save them from the death of forgetfulness. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| La Callet, B. | Une pièce montée | The disintegration of a wedding ceremony! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Carrère, E. | Classe de neige | A modern classic telling the tale of young Nicolas on a nightmarish skiing trip with his school…Recently made into a successful film. |
| Reprints. Published 1997. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Carrère, E. | D'autres vies que la mienne | BESTSELLER. 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. Prize-winning novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Carrère, E. | Un roman russe | The author leads an investigation into the disappearance of a Hungarian soldier in 1944, found 56 years later in a Russian psychiatric hospital in Kotelnitch. A dense and captivating autobiographical work. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Castillon, C. | Dessous, c'est l'enfer | A female author observes her fiancé with such critical attention that she is only able only see his character flaws and irritating habits. Then suddenly she decides to leave her fiancé for another man she has only just met. But will he also fall under her critical eyes? |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Castillon, C. | On n'empêche pas un petit cœur d'aimer | A collection of stories surrounding the theme of relationships between couples. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Cathrine, A. | Sweet home | A family bound together by silence. One by one each member takes their turn to speak out. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Cauvin, P. | Belange | Adrien discovers a squatter is inhabiting his weekend country retreat during the rest of the week! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.80 | ||
| Cauvin, P. | Venge-moi! | A son cannot deny his mother her dying wish: to avenge her. He is plunged into a dreadful past, and the heavy atmopshere of this psychologically suspenseful novel leads the reader to an unexpected dénouement. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Cauwelaert, D. | Attirances | Three novellas on a paranormal theme. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chalandon, S. | La légende de nos père | Leaving behind his career in journalism, Marcel Frémeaux becomes a genealogist. He is approached by a young woman keen to retrace her father's involvement in the French Resistance |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Chalandon, S. | Mon traître | Antoine, a Parisian musician, travels to Ireland to follow his passion for stringed instruments. In Belfast he becomes aware of the war ravaging the country and becomes engaged in Irish politics. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Chamoiseau, P. | Un dimanche au cachot | One rainy Sunday a young girl shelters under a stone vault and refuses to leave. Writer and teacher Patrick Chamoiseau is called to help her and realising that the vault hides the remnants of an old dungeon, he tells her its history of slavery. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | L'Allée du Roi | The fictional memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | La Première épouse | First person account of the breakdown of a marriage. Catherine had always accepted her husband's infidelities, but is shocked to the core when he asks her for a divorce. She must come to terms with being the 'widow' of a man who is still alive. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | La voyageuse de nuit | Poignant and honest, this is a novel about a sick mother and her four daughters. Before dying, their mother cuts off all communication and refuses to speak. Confronted with her silence, they ponder her personality, feelings and relationships. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | Une balle près du coeur | A woman finds herself confronted with her partner's former lover but is assured that he will return to her… |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | Le Charme des liaisons | Three couples, three stories about love and hate. This is a novel full of emotion and charm by a writer who proves her independence and integrity time and time again. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | Un oncle à héritage | Elderly Baron Robien de Condignac has nobody to leave his estate to. How will he find a solution to this inheritance problem? By best selling popular author Chapsal. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.50 | ||
| Char, Y. | La main de Dieu | Winner of the Prix Landerneau 2008. A young middle class girl growing up in 1970s Lebanon recounts the violent outbreak of war in 1975. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Charef, M. | À bras-le-cœur | Set in pre-independence Algeria, a troubled young boy will eventually join his father in France. Life there is not quite as he imagined. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Chattam, M. | Les arcanes du chaos | An exciting modern day thriller written around the attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11th. Yael's life descends into a nightmare, violence and confusion as strange messages appear and shadows loom in mirrors… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Chaudière, F. | Tribulations d'une stradivarius en Amérique | 28th February 1936. A soloist gives a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. Out of the two violins which he brings with him, he chooses the stradivarius but it vanishes into thin air…An original novel from a talented writer and instrument-maker. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.20 | ||
| Chessex, J. | Avant le matin | In 1980 Professor Joseph d'Avry meets Aloysia Pia Canisia Piller, an abbess with secret loves. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.35 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Chessex, J. | Le Vampire de Ropraz | Set in 1903 in Ropraz, the daughter of a judge dies of meningitis. Her corpse is violated and mutilated. Fear spreads as two other bodies are found violated in the same way. Based on a true story. By the winner of the prix Goncourt for "L'Ogre." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Chouraki, F. | La guerre du Kippour | Yom Kippur is perhaps not the best occasion for Fred Bronstein to present his new girlfriend to the family. Especially when she is a red-head with a fiery temper and a sharp tongue. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Chraïbi, D. | L'Homme qui venait du passé | When a body is discovered in a well in Morocco, clues lead to a conspiracy involving France, America and Afghanistan. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Claudel, P | La petite fille de Monsieur Linh | The story of refugee Monsieur Linh. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Les Âmes grises | Bestseller. Award-winning powerful novel about a provincial French town experiencing the horrors of war. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Le Café de l'Excelsior | A childhood spent in grandfather's café. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Le Monde sans les enfants et autres histoires | Twenty comical, poetical and philosophical stories in which Philippe Claudel takes on serious and taboo subjects such as war and death. Superbly illustrated. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Le Rapport de Brodeck | BESTSELLER. Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2007 and shortlisted for the Prix des Lecteurs 2009. A minor official with an utterly unimportant job is engaged in vital work during the war. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Clément, C. | Les derniers jours de la déesse | After the death of 80 year old Amma in India, witnesses and close friends recount how she founded an ashram and became a goddess. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Clément, C. | Le Sang du monde | Follow-up to Clément's bestselling novel "Le Sang du monde". |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Coatalem, J. | Il faut se quitter déjà | Set in Buenos Aires, a middle-aged reporter invents a new life for himself in order to seduce the young and beautiful Mathilde. Pretending to be in South America to research the last city of the Incas, he begins to lose himself in his own lies. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Cohen, J.-M. | Le roman des régimes | The clinic of the charming Mathieu Sorin, specialist in nutritional disorders, brings together people from all walks of life who, with his help, attempt to reconcile their troubled relationships with food and themselves. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Cohen, T. | Je le ferai pour toi | Daniel is determined to avenge the murder of his son. At the same time, a group of radical Islamists kidnap a homeless man. Two seemingly separate stories will soon overlap. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.40 | ||
| Colin, F. | Le Syndrome Godzilla | Teenager Daniel has never recovered from the dramatic and sudden death of his mother several years ago in Tokyo. He creates an imaginary friend called Godzilla. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.55 | ||
| Condé, M. | Les belles ténébreuses | Kassem is born in Lille to a Guadelopean father and a Romanian mother and grows up between two identities. One day he meets Dr Ramzi, an enigmatic and charming doctor, who begins to exercise a strange fascination over Kassem. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Condé, M. | Victoire, les saveurs et les mots | Maryse Condé paints an engaging portrait about her grandmother Victoire Élodie Quidal who was a cook for Anne-Marie and Boniface Walberg and whose talents were greatly appreciated by Guadaloupian society. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.75 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.70 | ||
| Constantine, B. | Tom petit Tom tout petit homme Tom | Eleven-year-old Tom lives with his young 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Cortanze, G. de | La belle endormie: roman érotique | In the Turin Royal Library, de Cortanze examines the documents of his aristocratic Piedmont family. The librarian, a young, pretty brunette, hands him the love letters of ancestor Marie Galante. Parallels are formed between the past and the present. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Cortanze, G. de | Laura | Biography of the Italian princess Laura Trivulzio. The author brilliantly mixes reality with fiction to portray the poverty, glory and the life of a free woman exiled from Paris in the 1830s. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Cossé, L. | Au bon roman | A small group of writers open a unique bookshop in the Latin Quarter, determined to preserve the quality of literature and fight against the large populist publishers. However, certain members become the targets of threats, and a police investigation is launched. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Courtemanche, G. | Un dimanche à la piscine á Kigali | A journalist battles corruption in Rwanda to set up an independent TV service for the people whose spirit keeps him going in miserable times. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Covin, A | États primitifs | Horror. Second novel focusing on the sects in America. The author has been compared to Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Curiol, C. | Permission | Set in a future world, where novels are banned, a man works for the government 'Institution', a rigorous and strict state organisation. When a new colleague joins the Institution, his imagination is awakened and a love of literature changes his life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.95 | ||
| 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 |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.25 | ||
| D'Aillon, J. | Les aventures de Guilhem d'Ussel, chevalier troubador: Vol II: Paris, 1199 | In Paris 1199 the Saxon knight Robert de Loxley (Robin Hood) investigates the death of King Richard the Lionheart. He requests the assistance of his friend and former mercenary, Guilhem d'Ussel. Second in a series of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.40 | ||
| D'Aillon, J. | Les aventures de Guilhem d'Ussel, chevalier troubador: Vol I: Marseille, 1198 | First in a series of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages under the reign of Richard the Lionheart. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.99 | ||
| D'Aillon, J. | Les rapines du duc de Guise | 1585, three men are vying for the French throne. Henri III wants to keep his throne but has no heir. His successor de Navarre wants to claim his rightful seat whilst de Guise wants a Bourbon king who will be a puppet in his hands. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Histoire et faux-semblants | A collection of four short stories in which appearances are deceiving. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Camarades de classe | The narrator, Dominique, starts a correspondance with one of her husband's old classmates. She uncovers contradicting versions of her husband's past, the legacy of May 1968, and an enigmatic class photo. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Dantec, M. | Cosmos incorporated | Sometime in the near future, Sergueï Plotkine is hired to kill the mayor of Grand Junction… Science fiction. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Dantec, M. G. | American Black Box: Le Théâtre des Opérations | Reflections on the years 2002-2006, on a society seemingly on the brink of apocalypse. In a journal kept during transatlantic exile, the author writes about Islamic extremism, freedom of the press and the obsession with political correctness. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £13.70 | ||
| Dantec, M.G. | Grande Jonction | 2070. The human race is in danger and is slowly being destroyed by an attack on language. The only hope is in the arrival of a mass of books… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Darrieussecq, M. | Tom est mort | BESTSELLER. A French woman in exile in Australia writes of her four-year-old son, who died a decade before. From the surrealist author of the acclaimed 'Truismes'. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Dauven, J.-F. | Le manuscrit de Portosera la rouge | More than forty characters cross paths in this original and pulsating novel as the drinking water of Portosera is infected, killing all those who drink it. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Dauven, J.-F. | Le Soliste | Sequel to 'Le Manuscrit de Portosera le rouge'. The story of the inhabitants of 24, rue de la Capitainerie. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.70 | ||
| David-Weill, C. | Les prétendants | Laure and Marie are determined to prevent their father from selling their idyllic summer home, so they hatch a plan to audition potential (wealthy) suitors and choose one to marry. A comic novel about wealth, love and chance. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| de Buron, N. | C'est fou ce qu'on voit de choses dans la vie | The author's memoirs of an unusual peripatetic adolescence. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.50 | ||
| de Cortanze, G. | Aventino | Follow-up to "Assam" twenty years on. Now in 1830, Ercole, son of Aventino and Massa goes to Turin imbued with revolutionary ideas…. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Deforges, R. | La Bicyclette Bleue, Volume 10: Et quand viendra la fin du voyage… : 1964-1967 | BESTSELLER. 1966, set in the time of Che Guevara, François is given a secret mission to go to Bolivia where a Nazi war criminal has taken refuge. Saved from an assassination attempt by Léa, they are swept up together in the whirlwind of history. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Deforges, R. | Deborah, la femme adultère | Historical fiction centred around the life of Deborah, a young woman found guilty of adultery and condemned to death. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Deghelt, F. | La grand-mère de Jade | Prix Solidarité 2010. A young woman kidnaps her grandmother to stop her being sent to a nursing home. Told from two points of view, the novel shows us characters who have the guts and the will to change their life. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Deghelt, F. | La vie d'une autre | A 25-year-old woman falls in love and after one night, wakes up twelve years later, married with children without any memory of the years which have passed. She embarks on a quest to find out what has happened. A refreshing novel, full of suspense. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Dekobra, M. | La madone des sleepings | The incredible adventures of the audacious Lady Diana Wynham who, after having scandalised London, decides to discover Bolshevist Russia. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.75 | ||
| Del Amo, J.-B. | Une éducation libertine | PRIX GONCOURT DU PREMIER ROMAN 2009. Set in 1760, Del Amo's prize-winning first novel follows the life and sexual adventures of young libertine Gaspard, who moves to Paris to seek social prestige and wealth. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste | 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2012. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Delande, A. | Le piège de Dante | Set in 1756, Pietro Viravolta, adventurer and womaniser leads an investigation on a brutal murder which occurs in a theatre and discovers a mysterious sect. A gripping suspense thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £12.20 | ||
| Delaume, C. | J'habite dans la télévision | A fascinating book chronicling the author's study of the affect of advertising on the human brain. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Delepierre, P. | Les ch'tis bonheurs | Gil is a young boy destined for happiness but his idyllic childhood world begins to show cracks when certain people evoke the past years of the Occupation. A tremendous novel written in a playful style. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Delerm, P | La bulle de Tiepolo | Against a Venice backdrop, a man and a woman argue about a painting. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.15 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Le Bonheur: Tableux et bavardages | First published in 1986, a series of very readable short chapters on happiness. "I am happy. Will it last?" muses the author. Delerm is best known for the delightful "La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisire minuscules' |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Dickens, barbe à papa: et autres nourritures délectables | Eighteen short stories in which Delerm evokes his childhood memories, food and much-loved authors. Delectable! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Enregistrements pirates | More poetic snippets of everyday trivia from bestselling Delerm. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £3.99 | ||
| Delerm, P. | L'envol, suivi de Panier de fruits | A man discovers a drawing of a strange bird by Folon. The image haunts his thoughts and his dreams. Then, one morning, the man opens his window and takes off… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £3.80 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.20 | ||
| Deniau, J. F. | Le Grand Jeu | Third in a trilogy set in the diplomatic world. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Depestre, R. | L'œillet ensorcelé et autres nouvelles | Collection of short stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £2.75 | ||
| Desarthe, A. | Mangez-moi | Contrary to expectations, difficult character Myriam's new restaurant is a huge success! She begins to wonder if she might be a bit out of her depth. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Desarthe, A. | Le remplaçant | Humorous and moving story of an old man whose life story is recounted through the eyes of his adoptive grandchild who lost her own grandfather to Auschwitz. Heartbreaking and funny in turns. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Descosse, O. | La liste interdite | Thriller. Through two separate murder enquiries, one in the countryside, and one in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the reader is plunged into a murky world of junkies, hooligans and the French bourgeoisie. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.45 | ||
| Descosse, O. | L'ordre noir | A man is intent on taking revenge on his father who has always despised him and who has been involved in art dealings linked to a horrific ritual killing. A heart-stopping thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Despentes, V. | Bye bye Blondie | Despentes most powerful novel to date. Portrait of a women who doesn't know how to be happy. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Despentes, V. | King Kong théorie | The author of the notorious "Baise-moi" reflects on her personal itinerary and the unconventional choices she has made. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Despentes, V. | Mordre au travers | Collection of dark stories about women who are heroines in a world rampant with desire, excess love, violence and anger. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £3.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Diome, F. | Kétala | Second novel from the author of the very successful "Le Ventre de l'Atlantique". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Diwan, A. | De l'autre côté de l'été | A story of a woman unlike any other who, during her sixties, decides to buy the company of a young man for a year. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.80 | ||
| Diwan, A. | La fabrication d'un mensonge | A young girl starts working in a wedding boutique after seeing a job advertisement in the window. She becomes caught up in a web of lies and embroiled in a secret community. First novel from a talented writer. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.45 | ||
| Diwo, J. | La chevauchée du Flamand | A fictionalised account of the life of the Flemish painter Pierre-Paul Rubens. Jean Diwo is the author of the hugely successful "Les Dames du Faubourg" saga. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Diwo, J. | Le jeune homme en culotte de golf | Tales of a young French journalist and his memories of all the people he met, including Salvador Dali, Marlène Dietrich and Marcel Aymé. A funny and touching portrait of a generation when anything seemed possible. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Diwo, J. | Moi, Milanollo, fils de Stradivarius | Exhilarating historical novel on a musical theme from bestselling author of "Les Violons du Roi". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Djavann, C. | Autoportrait de l'autre | The author takes up the story of a dying man, a former war photographer. A breathless account of his final hours, his head filled with memories of suffering; life and death coming face to face. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Djavann, C. | La muette | The tragic story of Fatemah, an Iranian teenager sentenced to death by hanging. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Djebar, A. | La Disparition de la langue française | 50 year-old Bekrane returns to Algeria after a twenty-year exile in France. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Djebar, A. | Nulle part dans la maison de mon père | Djebar's autobiographical novel recounts the life and politics of her parents, her childhood in Algeria, and the people and places that have shaped her writing. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £12.35 | ||
| Djebar, A. | Ombre sultane | A story about two women written by one of the most important figures of 20th century francophone Maghrebian literature. Oscillating between hope and despair the novel is a reflection of the plight of Algerian women in the 1970s. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Djian, P. | Doggy bag: Saison 2 | A sort of French "Dallas" but funnier and more sophisticated! Second volume in the series. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Djian, P. | Doggy bag: Saison 1 | When a beautiful stranger enters the Sollens brothers" office a small earthquake errupts… The first in a series of four books. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Djian, P. | Frictions | Recounting thirty years of the life of a man, involving a possessive mother and an 11 year old child full of incomprehension about his parents who have separated. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Djian. P. | Impardonnables | Francis is a successful writer, haunted by the death of his wife and one of his daughters many years ago. At sixty he remarries but his fragile equilibrium is shattered when his daughter Alice disappears, and it seems that his new wife is involved. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Du Boucheron, B. | Chien des os | At the end of the 16th Century, Spain has conquered the Portuguese on the Atlantic Islands. The main island is dominated by the high plateau where the poor peasants live in conflict with the rich living by the port. Written with dazzling style. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Du Boucheron, B. | Court Serpent | Set in the 14th Century, a voyage of discovery aboard the ship "Le Court Serpent". Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française 2004. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Dubois, J.-P. | Les accommodements raisonnables | Paul Stern leaves France for Hollywood, hoping to forget about his depressed wife, the scandalous second marriage of his father, and his own failings. He meets Selma, the perfect double of his wife Anna, only thirty years younger. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Dubois, J.-P. | Éloge du gaucher | BESTSELLER A series of essays in which Dubois writes an elogy to left-handers and re-invents their stigmatised image with his unique prose and humour. |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Hommes entre eux | BESTSELLER A man who has just learnt that he has a serious illness expects nothing more from life than one last meeting with the love of his life who has left for Canada. On his journey, he develops a strong bond with a man who also used to know her. |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Maria est morte | A man sets off on a journey to Asia to find the woman who left him and who announced the death of their 10 year old daughter. By the author of "Une vie française" (prix Femina 2004) and "Vous plaisantez, Monsieur Tanner." |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Parfois je ris tout seul | A charming selection of texts derived from everyday observations. From the bestselling author of "Une vie française". |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi | A man leaves Toulouse to find the traces of his father who drowned in a lake in Canada and makes a startling discovery. |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Une vie francaise | Memoirs of the middle-aged narrator and his sharp observations about France and French "life". |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Vous aurez de mes nouvelles | |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Vous plaisantez. Monsieur Tanner | Paul Tanner led a quiet life until he inherited the family pile and embarked on a restoration project! From the bestselling author of "Une vie française". |
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| Dubois, P. | Comptines assassines | In this reworking of fairytales and legends, Dubois introduces us to Dracula, the musicians of Bremen, Snow White, the bogeyman and an ageing Sherlock Holmes who broods over his childhood memories in his dark library. |
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| Dufour, H. | Au vent fou de l'esprit | The lives of a prestigious Cognac-maker and his glamorous wife are thrown into turmoil when the death of their son and heir leaves the family legacy with their fragile daughter. |
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| Dugain, D. | La Malédiction d'Edgar | Powerful and paranoid John Edgar Hoover was omnipresent as head of the FBI for almost half a century. Novel based on bugged conversations and the memoirs of Hoover's alleged gay lover, the FBI no.2. |
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| Dugain, M. | Une exécution ordinaire | A historical panorama of Russia from Stalin to Putin, seen through an ordinary family whose son was one of the last people to die when a nuclear submarine sank in 2000. A terrifying, compelling and moving novel. Grand prix RTL-Lire 2007. |
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| Dupeyron, F. | Le Grand Soir | In 1877, Geneva, Gustave Courbet recounts his former years of glory and his downfall after he met the beautiful Jo l'Irlandais. A powerful evocation of the libertine artist, friend of the people, communist and the vehemence of his revolt. |
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| Dupont-Monod, C. | La passion selon Juette | Shortlisted for the Prix des Lecteurs 2009. The story of Juette, a figure of bravery and resistance in 12th Century Belgium. Widowed at 18, she takes a vow of silence as trouble begins to brew in Flanders. |
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| Duteurtre, B. | Chemins de fer | Recounts the story of a fifty-year-old woman divided between her career in Paris and her love for a small old-fashioned country house in the mountains. This novel is also a reflection about the evolution of society. |
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| Duteurtre, B. | La Petite fille à la cigarette | A condemned man asks to smoke a last cigarette but smoking is not allowed in the prison… |
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| Echenoz, J. | Lac | An engaging espionage novel about Franck Chopin who is recruited for one final mission where he employs his novel spying techniques involving flies in a French resort. |
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| Echenoz, J. | Nous trois | BESTSELLER. The narrator and his right hand man are both aeronautical agents. Helicopters, planes, rockets — they all raise their spirits. They like anything that will take them up into the air! |
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| Egloff, J. | L'homme que l'on prenait pour un autre | The life of an ordinary man is turned upside down as those around him suddenly begin mistaking him for other people. He becomes a gangster, a plumber, even a neighbour's husband as these cases of mistaken identity make his life increasingly unstable. |
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| Eisenchteter, M. | Ne plus mourir, jamais | Isabelle wakes after 15 years in a coma to find her husband has married the young aupair, her daughter barely knows her, and her ecological trekking company has been turned into a multinational. Isabelle decides to take back her life. |
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| Éliard, A. | Nuits de noces | Six short stories centred on the themes of love and marriage. |
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| Elkaim, O. | Les graffitis de Chambord | Graffiti in the corridor of an old chateau links the lives of three men in three times. Banker Trevor in 2006 is lonely; Jewish writer Simon in 1945 is trying to trace his parents after liberation; and in 1940 we meet Resistance fighter Isaac. |
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| Énard, M. | Zone | BESTSELLER. 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. Winner of the Prix Décembre 2008. |
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| Enthoven, J. P. | Ce que nous avons eu de meilleur | In Zahia's palace near the desert, a few well-off friends get together. Amongst them two friends: one enamoured with Stendhal and Ronet's films; the other rich, famous, a philosopher, and also in love with Irène, the other's wife. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Ernaux, A. | Les années | An autobiography from award-winning author Annie Ernaux, as she looks back on her life and French society since the end of the Second World War. |
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| Fabre, D. | J'aimerais revoir Callaghan | More than twenty years after they met at boarding school, the narrator comes across his old friend Jimmy Callaghan, homeless on the streets of Paris with just one suitcase. |
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| Faye, É. | L'homme sans empreinte | Who was the mysterious author B. Osborne? Many people have tried and failed to find out his identity. |
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| Faye, É. | Nagasaki | Based on a true story, a Japanese man discovers a homeless woman has been living in his apartment for a month without him realising. Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Académie française 2010. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Fédorovsky, V. | Le Roman de Saint-Petersbourg | The greatest moments in the history of the city. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £19.45 | ||
| Fellag | L'allumeur de rêves berbères | In Alger in the 1990s, water is distributed twice a week from three to six o' clock in the morning. During this time, a famous journalist hides away and observes his neighbours, recounting dramatic and funny stories. |
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| Fellag | Le dernier chameau et autres histoires | Whether imaginary or autobiographical, whether they take place in Algiers, in a RER train, on the west coast of the US, or in Algeria during the war, these individual stories that Fellag tells with such skill juggle poetry, humour and poignancy. |
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| Fercak, C. | Rideau de verre | An abused woman with a genetic disease dives into childhood memories to find out why her adolescent self is so different to the woman she is today. |
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| Fermine, M. | Tango Massaï | In the early 20th century, a rebel army led by the white Tango Massaï try to liberate Tabora from the reign of the Sultan. |
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| Fernandez, D. | L'art de raconter | Fernandez pays homage to the art of story-telling, dedicating each chapter to the great novelists such as Simenon, Stendhal, Tolstoï and Dickens. |
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| Ferney, A. | Les Autres | Theo's twentieth birthday with his family is disrupted when he receives a board game, unleashing their true feelings about each other. A touching, honest and captivating portrayal of personalities, friendship and love within a family. |
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| Ferney, A. | Les Autres | During a birthday party, a game designed for the guests to get to know each other better becomes a revelation of family secrets. |
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| Ferney, A. | Dans la guerre | Set in 1914. A dog is unable to wait for his master to return home from the front. |
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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 imagine her life through those of the heroines. |
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| Ferniot, J. | C'était ma France | 141 short stories about 20th century France from the end of the 1920s to the 1980s through portraits, lost landscapes, forgotten professions, and vanished objects. |
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| Ferrand, F. | Les Fils de France (La Cour des Dames, 2) | Set in the court of François I in 1533, this historical novel tells of the fights for power and influence between the king, his three sons, and two exceptional women: Anne de Pisseleu and Diane de Poitiers. |
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| Ferrand, F. | Madame Catherine | Final volume in the historical fiction series 'La cour des dames'. Catherine de Medici endures the rise to power of her rival Diane de Poitiers but their rivalry escalates towards war. |
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| Ferrari, J. | Dans le secret | Set in Corsica, this is the story of two brothers. When 40-year-old Antoine is struggling against alcoholism after his wife leaves him, he turns to his brother for help. |
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| Fiorentino, M. | Un trader ne meurt jamais | Financial thriller. Sam was once the golden boy of the Parisian business world but a dangerous gamble led to his spectacular downfall at the turn of the millennium. Now, with his debts paid, Sam is drawn back into his obsession with trading and speculation. |
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| Fiszman, V. | Les Voisins | A successful writer leaves Paris to stay in the suburbs where he uses his neighbours as inspiration for his new novel. However, as he delves deeper into their lives, he unwittingly puts himself in danger. |
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| Foenkinos, D. | La Délicatesse | BESTSELLER. Prize-winning novel set in Sweden. Charles Delamain is in love with his recently-widowed colleague Nathalie. |
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| Foenkinos, D. | En cas de bonheur | Pertinent dissection of a modern couple. |
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| Foenkinos, D. | Nos séparations | The story of an unlikely couple who love each other but spend their lives apart, having children by other people. One day, the son of one of them meets the daughter of the other during a pilgrimage to Père-Lachaise cemetery. |
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| Fontanel, S. | Fonelle est amoureuse | Fonelle is in love with a man who has no interest in her! Epistolary novel based on the character made famous in the pages of "Elle" magazine. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Fontanel, S. | Sublime amour | A love story between an American woman and an Italian man in his fifties who have been together for seven years. During this period, they left each other and crossed paths with numerous characters who will play a role in their love affair. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Forest, P. | Sarinagara | Moving between Paris and Tokyo, the lives of three influential Japanese figures — a poet, a novelist and a photographer. |
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| Fottorino, É. | Baisers de cinéma | A lawyer is unaware of who his mother is and his father leaves behind some photographs which raises questions without answers. He encounters a married woman and falls in love…beautifully written and a hommage to cinema. Prix Femina 2007. |
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| Fouchet, L. | Place Furstenberg | Famous comedian Hubert Saint-Jean dies suddenly leaving twins Marie and Amélie orphaned. When Amélie discovers that Hubert had a son she wants to find him, but does not think for one moment that Marie might not be ready to follow. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Fournier, J.-L. | Le C.V. de Dieu | After having made the skies, the Earth, animals and man, God starts to get bored. Trying to keep busy, he sends his CV to a prestigious business firm and undergoes the interviewing process. An eccentric novel. |
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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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| Frain, I. | Les naufragés de l'île tromelin | 1761. A ship carrying 160 slaves is beached on an island. The marines and slaves must cohabit in order to survive until the marines leave on a rowing boat, promising to return. 15 years later, there are only eight survivors. |
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| Frégni, R. | L'Été | Paul leads a quiet existence in the south of France running a restaurant. Then the beautiful writer Sylvia comes into his life…. |
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| Frégni, R. | Maudit le jour | A collection of dark, tender and humorous stories, oscillating between reality and fiction, recounting adventures taking place between Manosque and Marseille. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Gailly, C. | Les Évadés | Mistaken for his father, Jeremy is attacked in broad daylight by a policeman looking for revenge. Theo Panol intervenes and accidentally kills the police officer. Sentenced to 30 years solitary confinement, Theo's friends plot to help him escape. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Gallay, C. | Dans l'or du temps | A magnificent novel about two different worlds as the narrator spends the summer with his family in their Normandy home and meets an old woman living nearby. A homage to André Breton and exceptional meetings which stir the soul. A must-read. |
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| Gallay, C. | Dans l'or du temps | On holiday with his wife and children at their house in Normandy, the narrator meets an unusual elderly lady who lives in the village with her sister. He starts to visit her regularly to hear her story. |
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| Gallay, C. | Les déferlantes | A violent storm is raging when the narrator first sees the mysterious Lambert. Forty years after losing his parents in a shipwreck he is still grieving, and the narrator slowly begins to uncover his secrets. Grand Prix des Lectrices d'Elle. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Gallay, C. | Mon amour ma vie | Dan is the youngest of the six Pazzatis, a circus family. It has been years since they have done a show and now, each night around the fire, they remember the past. Dan is alone amongst five adults and wants to be loved, especially by his mother. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £11.15 | ||
| Gallay, C. | L'office des vivants | A strange family living in isolation and destitution in a mountain hamlet are shaken by the arrival of a young girl carrying the father's baby. A beautiful and compassionate debut novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.10 | ||
| Gallo, M. | La croix de l'occident, 2: Paris vaut bien une messe | The second part of the historical novel based in medieval France. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Fanatiques | The daughter of a history teacher at the Sorbonne decides to convert to Islam after her marriage. One day in October, her father is assassinated…A lucid and emotional novel which unveils the issue of the Islamisation of France. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains: Volume 4: Marc Aurèle, le martre des chrétiens | Fourth book in Gallo's series about life in Rome under the emperor Nero. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 1: Spartacus, la révolte des esclaves | First in the series of five novels about the Romans in which the story of Spartacus is re-told. A real page-turner. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.75 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 2: Neron, le règne de l'Antéchrist | Second book in the series about life in Rome under the emperor Nero, recounting the legend's monstrosities. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 3: Titus, le martyre des juifs | Third volume from Max Gallo about the history of Rome. In this book, he tells the story of Serenus who recalls the reign of Titus during the war in Jerusalem. |
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| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 5: Constantin le Grand: L'Empire du Christ | The final book in Gallo's series on the history of the Roman empire. Here, he retraces the ascension of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.70 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Le roman des rois: les grands Capétiens | The story of the three founders of the French kingdom in the 13th Century: Philippe II Auguste, Saint Louis, and Philippe IV le Bel. |
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| Garat, A.-M. | Chambre noire | A woman finds strange photos in her companion's house taken by a young man from the war in 1914. Little by little, she uncovers the secrets and true confessions of the family. An intriguing, beautiful novel by winner of the Prix Femina in 1992. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Garcia, T. | La meilleure part des hommes | PRIX DE FLORE 2008. A touching novel about three men involved in the French gay rights movement at the end of the 1980s. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Garcin, C. | Vidas: Vies volées | Chapters exploring the unusual lives of historic personalities such as Catulus, Maria Magdalen, Agrippa d'Aubigné and Emily Dickinson. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Garcin, J. | Cavalier seul: Journal équestre | The third in an equestrian trilogy. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Gardel, L. | La Baie d'Alger | PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2008. 1955; the narrator is 15, lives in Algiers with his grandmother after the departure of his parents for the continent, and decolonisation is only a distant rumour. Then events begin signalling the destruction of his world. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Dans la nuit Mozambique | Collection of four stories about madness, despair and savagery. Highly recommended from a prize-winning author. |
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| Gaudé, L. | Dans la nuit Mozambique | Collection of four stories about madness, despair and savagery. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Eldorado | Two Sudanese brothers prepare to embark on a perilous journey to reach Europe as clandestine immigrants. Meanwhile, Commander Piracci keeps watch over the Italian coastline…. Prizewinning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | La porte des enfers | BESTSELLER. From the prize-winning author Laurent Gaudé, a novel about grief. The story of Filippo Scalfaro who decides to avenge the death of his teenage son, killed by a stray bullet on the streets of Naples. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Le Soleil des Scorta | Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2004. An epic novel spanning several generations of the Italian Scorta family. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Le Soleil des Scorta | Goncourt winning novel from the author of bestselling "La mort du roi Tsongor". The story of an Italian clan. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Gavalda, A. | La consolante | BESTSELLER. When 47-year-old architect Charles discovers that a woman he knew and loved as a child has died, he is knocked for six. Nothing seems to make sense anymore until he meets Kate. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Gavalda, A. | Ensemble, c'est tout | A feel-good story centering on four very different characters…uplifting and fun! Recently made into a popular film with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Germain, S. | L'Inaperçu | PRIX DE LECTEURS SÉLECTION 2010. A woman's husband is killed in a car accident leaving her to look after their four children alone. Sylvie German skilfully presents a bitter sweet portrait of a provincial family after the war. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Germain, S. | Magnus | Franz-Georg is amnesiac and has to relearn his German identity. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2005. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Ghata, Y. | Le Târ de mon père | The Tar of the title is an Iranian lute. On the death of his father, Hossein inherits this instrument but in his hands, it refuses to cooperate. He takes it to the best lute player in the country and never returns from his journey. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Giesbert, F.-O. | La souille | Jésus lives on a farm in Normandy and has a strange power: he understands everything about life, whether it be the animal kingdom or the passion of humans. But is he prepared to help the police after a murder? Winner of the Prix Interallié 1995. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £4.70 | ||
| 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 partner thinks he is making a bad decision, a decision which creates a rupture between them. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Giraud, B. | Une année étrangère | Seventeen year old Laura leaves France for Germany to become an au pair. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Giraud, B. | Avec Les Garçons: Suivi De 'Le Garçon' | Through sixty-seven passages and two novels, Goncourt-winning Giraud evokes the feeling of love, along with the apprehension and the embarassment it generates. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.85 | ||
| Goby, V. | L'échappée | This tragic and powerful novel follows the destiny of a young Breton woman who falls in love with a German pianist during the Occupation. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Goby, V. | Qui touche à mon corps je le tue | In 1943 Marie performed an abortion on Lucie. She is condemned to death, and awaits the guillotine in her prison cell, while Lucie reflects on the abortion and its consequences. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.85 | ||
| Godard, A | L'Inconsolable | Winner of the Grand Prix RTL in 2006, Godard writes honestly and delicately about the premature death of a child. Without question, a pivotal and remarkable novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Goetz, A. | Intrigue à l'anglaise | This comedy mixes humour, art and politics, evoking real characters such as Princess Diana and historical facts. From the previous winner of the Prix des Deux Magots and the prix Roger Nimier. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Goffette, G | Une enfance lingère | Lingerie themed childhood memories! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Gorz, A. | Lettre à D.: Histoire d'un amour | BESTSELLER. Known existentialist philosopher and writer relives the love story of fifty-eight years that he shared with his wife Dorine. This poignant memoir in the form of a letter was published the year after they committed suicide together. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Goscinny, A. | Le père éternel | Sophie was ten when her father died. Now older, she returns to his grave in Nice every year to lay flowers. There she befriends Max, the old guardian of the cemetery, who is haunted by the disappearance of a young girl during the war. A touching novel about grief, loss and friendship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Graff, L. | Il ne vous reste qu'une photo à prendre | You can only take one more photo for the rest of your life. You have no timeframe, limitless subjects and free choice of photographic equipment but what would you choose? |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Grainville, P. | La main blessée | A writer's hand becomes paralysed but the presence of a sensual Egyptian woman soothes his feelings of anxiety, doubt and fear. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Grangé, J.-C. | La Ligne noire | Reverdi is a serial killer recently captured in Malaysia. Hot on his trail is journalist Dupeyrat… Bestselling thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.65 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Grimbert, P. | Un secret | Bestselling prize-winning novel, recently made into a film starring Patrick Bruel and Julie Depardieu. Set in post-war France, this is the story of a family haunted by the secrets of their past. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Gros, J.-L. | Le Tibétain | A thrilling novel oscillating between reality and fiction and sport and politics. Full of great emotion and suspense right to the very end of the story, the reader is taken on a journey between China and Tibet, a descent into the Olympic world… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Groult, B. | La Touche étoile | A novel dealing with the theme of destiny. Three women, Moïra, Marion and Alice, are all confronted by it. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Guedj, D. | Le théorème du perroquet | Monsieur Ruche must delve into the history of mathematics to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance. |
| Reprints. Published 2000. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Guenassia, J.-M. | Le club des incorrigibles optimistes | Paris, 1959. 12-year-old Michel comes across a group of people who have escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and meet in the back room of a bistro in Paris. They are all linked by a terrible secret which Michel uncovers. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Guène, F. | Du rêve pour les oufs | A young Algerian woman struggles with all sorts of problems but this does not stop her from finding amusement in the people who cross paths with her. From the bestselling author of "Kiffe kiffe demain." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Guène, F. | Les gens du Balto | BESTSELLER. The owner of the Balto bar is found dead 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Guène, F. | Kiffe kiffe demain | Bestseller. Humorous novel about a girl who lives alone with her mother in a troubled Parisian suburb. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Guernalec-Levy, G. | L'amant inachevée | Claire, a mother and a wife, has always remembered one of the first lovers she had at 16. When she meets her old lover by chance, Claire will be confronted with her favourite fantasy. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.25 | ||
| Guillot, B. | Hors jeu | Jean-Victor's life is turned upside down when he decides to take part in a TV game show. His rapid progress in the game and his need to remain on top will be reduced to nothing. Debut novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Haddad, H. | Palestine | An Israeli military patrol is attacked by a group of Palestinians, and one soldier injured in the blast is taken hostage. Wounded, and having completely lost his memory, the young Israeli solider is taken in and cared for by two Palestinians. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Haenel, Y. | Cercle | Winner of the Prix Décembre 2007 and the Prix Nimier 2008. One day a man decides not to go to work, instead beginning a series of journeys starting in the streets of Paris. A mesmerising read. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Haenel, Y. | Jan Karski | Prix Interallié 2009. Prix du roman Fnac 2009. A meditation on collective and individual conscience. Polish resistance fighter Jan secretly penetrates the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, in order to prove the extermination of Jews. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Halter, M. | Le kabbaliste de Prague | Historical novel about the legend of Golem. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Harpman, J. | Du côté d'Ostende | In Brussels, an elderly man reflects on an unfulfilled life. His only friend is leaves some notebooks which send him deeper in to his own memories. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Hatzfeld, J. | La stratégie des antilopes | In this book, Hatzfeld recounts the development of Rwanda since 2003, in particular on the cohabitation between the genocide victims and their former executioners. Winner of the Prix Médicis 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.90 | ||
| Hausser, I. | Le passage des ombres | Three characters — a magistrate, a historian and a doctor — try to overcome their grief after a series of murders takes place in their town. Winner of the Prix Vivre Plus 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.90 | ||
| Henry, F. | La rêve de Martin | The letter of a dead mother to her son in which she reveals the reasons behind her separation from him when he was twelve years old. A powerful and emotional novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Hermary-Vieille, C. | Le Gardien du phare | Three ladies, all with weighty secrets, are shipwrecked on a savage island with a lighthouse keeper who never shows himself. They watch out for, feel and fear his presence, without being sure that he even exists. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Houellebecq, M. | La Possibilité d'une île | Prix Interallié 2005. Houellebecq's science fiction novel about sects, eternel life and cloning. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Humbert, F. | L'Origine de la violence | WINNER OF PRIX RENAUDOT POCHE 2010. Whilst on a school trip in Germany, a young professor discovers a photograph of a detainee in a concentration camp who looks exactly like his father. He is in fact his grandfather and bit by bit he pieces together this hidden part of his family. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Hutin, P. | La prisonnière du Tibet | Thomas Fayette travels to Tibet in search of Gandhali, a young women whom he suspects was implicated in the car crash that killed his family. He is plunged into a violent world of Tibetan nationalism, of which Gandhali herself is also a victim. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Huy, M.T. | La princesse et le pêcheur | Lam has never visited the country of her parents until she falls in love with a Vietnamese man. On a visit to Vietnam she discovers the effects of war and totalitarianism. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Huy, Minh Tran | La double vie d'Anna Song | Moving love story based on true events. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Israël, B. | Miss Saturne | In 1980s Nice Mercedes divides her time between different nightclubs and the Miss Saturne bar where she socialises with other fans of new wave. The lyrics of The Smiths, The Cure and Joy Division reflect the disillusionment of their generation. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Israël, B. | Pop Heart | Three children of the eighties, now thirty something and still living at home and for whom English pop music is something of a religion narrate this novel. Described as "'Jules et Jim' with electric guitars". |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Jabès, S. | Clitomotrice | The adventures of Clémentine and her clitoris! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Jacq, C. | Toutânkhamon: L'ultime secret | A promising French lawyer is sucked into a world of Egyptian mystery in the quest for his true identity. An Indiana Jones-esque tale of secrets and discovery. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.35 | ||
| Jacques, P. | Rachel-Rose et l'officier arabe | A psychological thriller set in 1950's Cairo. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.45 | ||
| Jamet, N., & Le Pezennec, M.-A. | Les oubliés de Killmore | Marie leaves her native island of Land'sen and takes off for Killmore. While she celebrates her marriage with Lucas, her cousin is found murdered and a series of ritual murders ensue in mysterious circumstances… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Janicot, S. | Tu n'es pas seul(e) à être seul(e) | In the heart of a Parisian bourgeois block of flats, the inhabitants live side by side without really knowing each other. Real dramas, small sorrows, love and jealousy are all mixed up in this microcosm of human behaviour. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Japp, A.H. | Monestarium | A gripping historical thriller. A woman is found strangled in a nunnery in 14th Century France, undoutedly because of her striking resemblance to her sister. The murders don't stop there. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Jardin, A. | Les Coloriés | In 2003 Hippolyte Le Play discovered the world of "Les Coloriés', a world without adults where games, emotions and desires rule. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.00 | ||
| Jardin, A. | Quinze ans après | Fanfan and Alexandre meet again. Fanfan, scarred by two failed marriages, is not interested in relationships. Alexandre is convinced that love is no more than a glorification of real life. Together, they will reinvent their relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Jardin, A. | Le Roman des Jardin | The author, better known for his bitter sweet romantic comedies, reveals a darker side through this memoir of his eccentric family — the Jardins. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | L'enfance est un rêve d'enfant | A story from Jauffret's childhood. With his friends, Gabriel and Corentin, he embarked on a journey through France to look for their hero the General de Gaulle. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | Lacrimosa | An epistolary novel between the author and a young woman called Charlotte, who has just committed suicide. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | Microfictions | PRIZEWINNER 500 tragi-comedy stories in which the narrators tell of their loves, crimes, cowardice, moments of happiness and much more. Winner of the Prix du livre France Culture-Télérama 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Jaworski, J.-P. | Janua vera | PRIX DU CAFARD COSMIQUE 2008. Science-fiction combining fantasy and a cold stab of reality. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.95 | ||
| Jean, R. | Un Fantasme de Bella B. et autres récits | A collection of stories combining eroticism and fantasy surrounding beautiful, ambiguous female characters. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Jeury, M. | La petite école dans la montagne | Set in the Loire Valley in 1908. A new teacher tries to help a young orphan pass his exams. Meanwhile another teacher in the school, Emilie, fights for the rights of her female students to have the same education and opportunities as their male counterparts. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Jody, J.-P. | Stringer | A thriller about a young French cameraman who loses his dreams and principles in the world of the Los Angeles paparazzi. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Joncour, S. | Combien de fois je t'aime | Seventeen love stories and seventeen ways in which to lose or find each other. Each couple has a very different tale to tell. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Joncour, S. | L'Idole | Unemployed Georges Frangin wakes up one morning to find he is a celebrity for no reason. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Joncour, S. | Que la paix soit avec vous | A man is troubled by images of the war in Iraq which loom on his television screen and the echos of a mysterious presence in his apartment building. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Joyaud, B. | Plaisir en bouche | The rise and fall of an orphan who becomes a genius in cooking. A book which is on a par with Süskind's highly successful "Perfume", evoking the pleasures of taste alongside drama and vengeance. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Kaddour, H. | Waltenberg | Prix du Premier Roman 2005. Historical fresco spanning the Russian Revolution of 1914 to the fall of the Soviet Union, and a love story between a German novelist and an American opera singer. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £14.90 | ||
| Kenig, A. | Camping Atlantic | From a young and gifted writer, about two brothers who rebel against their parents. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Kenig, A. | New Wave | (2009). Eric meets Romain one day at school and is quickly seduced by the New Wave scene of his new friend. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Kenig, A. | La pause | The story about a man in his twenties who lives in a factory area with his father. One day, he decides to shut himself away; a decision which disrupts the district. A powerful novel with its sociological observations by a promising young author. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Kernel, B. | Fais-moi oublier | Four friends, two couples, dine together. Later that evening, one of them travels to a country ravaged by war. Their lives are turned upside down as they face grief, violence and a difficult predicament between two lovers. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Attentat | |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Ce que le jour doit à la nuit | BESTSELLER. Voted book of the year 2009 by France Télévisions. A novel about life in colonial Algeria. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | La dingue au bistouri | Crime novel set in Algiers. From the best selling author of "Les Hirondelles de Kaboul" and "L'Attentat". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Les hirondelles de Kaboul | |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £8.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Les sirènes de Bagdad | The descent into terrorism of a naïve country boy who falls prey to islamic extremism. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Khoury-Ghata, V. | Sept pierres pour la femme adultère | Guilty of adultery and condemned to death by stoning, Noor doesn't imagine for a second that she could escape her fate. Then a Frenchwoman working for a humanitarian organisation intervenes. A doomed love story ensues. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Kleotzer, L. | Le Royaume blessé | The story of Eylir Ap'Callaghan, adventurer, bandit, soldier of luck, beggar and king. Science-fiction novel from this prize-winning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £14.55 | ||
| Kolebka, G. | Tous paranos! | A collection of zany stories which pushes the reader past the limits of reason. From the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Humour noir. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £15.30 | ||
| Kundera, M. | Le Rideau | Essay in seven chapters. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.10 | ||
| Labro, P. | Des cornichons au chocolat | A cult novel for a generation who identifies with the 13 year old teenager - loneliness, rebellion, school and a troubling view on adults. A very memorable character and written in a beautiful, believable tone. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Labro, P. | Les gens | Three parallel destinies collide, three lives which have one thing in common — the absence of love. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.70 | ||
| Lachaud, D. | Le Vrai est au coffre | Bullied and excluded as a child, Tom changes his identity in order to seek revenge on those who victimised him. A novel which plays with the concepts of fiction and reality in the determination of the self. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Lacroix, A. | De la supériorité des femmes | First in a trilogy of autobiograhical novels, Lacroix examines the break up of a marriage. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.15 | ||
| Lacroix, A. | Quand j'étais nietzschéen | A few days after his sixteenth birthday, our protagonist discovers the works of Nietzsche. This first contact with philosophy will tear apart everything he believed and will completely change the path of this sensible young man. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.10 | ||
| Ladjali, C. | Les Souffleurs | Twins Candice and Nathan meet in Venice years after an incestuous liaison. Their mutual love for theatre results in the twins going head-to-head with two productions, Othello and Britannicus. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Laferrière, D | Le goût des jeunes filles | A Haitian exile's sensual evocation of his adolescence in Port-au-Prince. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Lafon, L. | De ça je me console | Emylina recalls her childhood in Ceausescu's Romania and the young Italian who she fell in love with. But the story took a different turn after the assassination of her corrupt patron and her subsequent disappearance |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.30 | ||
| Lanzmann, C. | Shoah | |
| Reprints. Published 1997. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Larbaud, V. | Mon plus secret conseil | A short novel on the theme of love originally published in 1923. Larbaud was a well traveled writer and the French translator of Joyce. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £2.50 | ||
| Laurens, C. | Ni toi ni moi | A film-maker hears a short story on the radio and the writer agrees to let him adapt it into a screenplay. An emotional and intimate take on powerless and disappearing love. Shorlisted for the prix Goncourt in 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Laurens, C. | Romance nerveuse | The story of an unlikely romance between a struggling author and an ambitious paparazzi photographer. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Lazar, L. | Terre des affranchis | Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie 2010. Folklore lends strange powers to the lake of Slobozia deep in the Moldavian forest, where a murderous young man, Luca, lives. He crosses many people's paths in this captivating tale of redemption. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Le Tellier, H. | Assez parlé d'amour | A group of professional forty-somethings must face the consequences of desire. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Leclair, B. | L'amant Liesse | Freed from her husband and her children, a woman awaits her lover. Whilst waiting, she makes her desire heard and anticipates the hours to come. At the same time, her husband is storming through town, driven by jealousy. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Lélu, T. | Jacques Daniel Nick Oussama | Jacques is struck by a mystery illness. Following the doctor's advice he decides to go on holiday but his plane unexpectedly lands in Afghanistan. There he finds a strange community, full of people presumed dead including John Lennon and Claude François. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Lemoine, A. | Les heures chaudes | A passionate love story which leads to a fevered duel underneath a blistering summer sun. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Leroy, G. | Alabama Song | BESTSELLER. PRIX GONCOURT 2007. A mixture of imaginary and biography, the author tells the story of Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Leroy, J. | Monnaie bleue | A novel of secrets and violence set against the background of race riots, corrupt police, and powerful politicians and media barons. 'Monnaie bleue' is both a novel about vengeance, honour and love, and a critique of modern French society |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.90 | ||
| Lesbre, M. | Une simple chute | A woman strangely re-tells her life story to the narrator who is sitting next to her on the train. A description of the spiral of a ruthless and callous scheme which proves ultimately fatal. From a previous winner of the prix Printemps in 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Lethielleux, M. | Dis oui, ninon | As her parents go through a bitter divorce, nine-year-old Ninon chooses to live with her bohemian father. Together, they build a house, raise goats, sell their products at the local market and slowly forget all about school, social services and ordinary life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Lévy, B.-H. | American vertigo | |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Lévy, J. | Mauvaise fille | BESTSELLER. Louise loses her mother as she discovers she is pregnant with her first child. A novel about mothers and daughters. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Levy, M. | Les enfants de la liberté | BESTSELLER March 1943, 18 year-old Raymond gets on a tram and becomes Jeannot. Extraordinary story about forbidden love, death, courage, fear and vengeance among young people who refused to be defeated during the Second World War. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Levy, M. | Et si c'était vrai… | Marc Levy's bestselling romantic novel about a love affair between a man and a woman in a coma! Recently made into a Hollywood film. |
| Reprints. Published 2001. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Levy, M. | Mes amis Mes amours | Bestseller Marc Levy's runaway bestseller about two thirty-something men sharing a flat in London. A film is due soon! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.99 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Levy, M. | Toutes ces choses qu'on ne s'est pas dites | BESTSELLER. Days before her wedding Julia learns that her brilliant but distant father has died. But he had one last surprise, a discovery which takes her on an incredible journey and gives her the chance to say all the things that were never said. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Levy, M. | Le voleur d'ombres | BESTSELLER. A funny and delightful book about childhood and a young boy who discovers the secrets behind shadows. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Levy, M. | Vous revoir | Bestselling romantic novel from the phenomenal Marc Levy. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Liberati, S. | Nada exist | In December 2007 a celebrated photograph, famous for its image of modern fashion and decadence, is finally removed from public exhibition and returned to its owner. A cruel, yet funny and moral tale of five hours in the life of a photograph. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £11.90 | ||
| Littell, J. | Les Bienveillantes | PRIZEWINNER A literary sensation and bestseller in France written in French by an American about a fictional SS officer during the Holocaust. Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £14.99 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Les cathédrales du vide | Under the guise of environmental protection, an international organisation is working to find a secret buried in the heart of the Earth which could shatter its geopolitical future. Major Mackenzie, formerly of secret intelligence, leads the enquiry. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Le rasoir d'Ockham | The first installment of the adventures of Ari Mackenzie. The controversial analyst to the 'Renseignements generaux' uncovers a mysterious occult group. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.90 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Le syndrome Copernic | An original and exciting thriller about a man who is saved by the voices in his head which warn him to flee the scene before a bombing occurs and soon realises that he holds a secret which could change the world. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Lopez, G. | Les Petits Cailloux | Memoirs of the charismatic school teacher made famous by the hit documentary "Être et Avoir". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Lortholary, I. | Heureuse ou presque | A collection of touching short stories, exploring the question of femininity by focusing on relationships between mothers, daughters, sisters and friends, and the pivotal moments in life such as marriage, pregnancy and childhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.95 | ||
| Mabanckou, A. | Black Bazar | Sitting in a Parisian bar night after night, nothing amuses the narrator, a young, Congolese dandy, nursing a broken heart. That is until he meets a young Haitian writer and his life is transformed. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Magnan, P. | Laure du bout du monde | The story of Laure, a country girl growing up in the French Alps. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Maillet, G. | French Manucure | A Parisian 'Sex and the City'. A comic novel following the lives of four women in their thirties. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Maillet, G. | Le monde à ses pieds | At 16, Ruslana leaves Kazakstan for London where she finds fame and fortune as a model. Several years later, despite having everything she ever dreamt of, she feels terribly alone. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Maillet, G. | Presque top-model | Maryvonne Kerbec had only just arrived in Paris from her native Brittany when she finds herself strutting the catwalks as a model! An engaging satire on the world of fashion. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Mainard, D. | Pour vous | PRIX DE LIBRAIRES 2009. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.10 | ||
| Makine, A. | L'amour humain | Makine's depiction of human extremes centres on the destiny of an Angolan revolutionary who is in love with a Russian woman. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.15 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Malinconi, N. | Au bureau | A dissection of office life after the announcement that the organisation is downsizing. People change, become suspicious, and start scheming to protect themselves. A damning insight into the world of work, which is void of all generosity. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.45 | ||
| Malzieu, M. | 38 mini westerns (avec des fantômes) | Malzieu, rock singer turned writer, lets his imagination run wild in this collection of short stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Malzieu, M. | La mécanique du coeur | On the day that Jack was born, the weather was so cold that his heart froze. His wise mother replaces it with a clock which must be wound up every morning. Jack must avoid any kind of emotion, even love. Then he meets a women with smouldering eyes… |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Manotti, D. | Lorraine connection | The Daewoo factory is the only source of employment in a part of Lorraine where an accident provokes a revolt among the workers. A thrilling novel which explores political and economic conflicts. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.20 | ||
| Marietta, A. | N'attendez pas trop longtemps | Similar in style to Anna Gavalda, Marietta shows how self-affirmation, hopes and destinies take time to accomplish when the seller of a house, his estate-agent and two potential female buyers meet. An inspiration to seize every opportunity and a must-read! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Mars, F. | Son parfum | A blind woman recovers her sight for a few instants when she tries a new perfume. From now on, she has just one wish - to find the creator of this magical scent. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £14.50 | ||
| Maudit, A.-M. et J. | La conjuration de la rose noire | In 1651 Giulio de Beauclair, the godchild of Mazarin, is summoned to Paris for an urgent mission as a huge conspiracy surrounding Louis XIV is being organised. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Maugenest, T. | La poudre des rois: une enquête au XIIIe siècle | In thirteenth century Andalucia an old doctor, assisted by his young disciples, looks into the enigma of a fever which attacks only men who fifteen years earlier sailed on a merchant ship headed for the Orient. A delightful historical thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Le Men, Y. | Le petit tailleur de shorts | Seveteen 'true stories'; each a tableau of childhood representing a transition from one stage to another, with all the accompanying fears, desires and surprises. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Michaux, A. | Le témoin | In the spring of 1918, on the road to Siberia, Lievchine is escorting the tsar and his family to their death. From Tobolsk exile to the bloody cellar in Ekaterinburg; the story of a young man with a Russian heart that refuses to stop beating. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Michelet, C. | Quand ce jour viendra | Michelet's new novel follows Lieutenant Neyrat and his fiancé journalist Terry Finnegan during the First World War. |
| Reprints. Published 2009 2009. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Michelet, C. | Quelque part dans le monde | A magnificent portrait of a pioneer and a beautiful heroine, full of vitality and adventure by a bestselling author. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Michon, P. | La Grande Beune | The musings of a young teacher recently arrived in the Dordogne. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £3.20 | ||
| Mille, R. | Le Roman de Marie Bashkirtseff | The award winning author's novel about the tragically short but colourful life of Marie Bashkirtseff, a Russian in exile in France who was an artist as well as the lover of Guy de Maupassant. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Millerand, H. | Quartier du temple | October 1857, Maxime leaves Normandy to study in Paris. On arrival he meets and falls in love with a young headstrong Jewish girl. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Millet, C. | Jour de souffrance | BESTSELLER. By the acclaimed author of 'La vie sexuelle de Catherine M', exploring the theme of jealousy. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.70 | ||
| Modiano, P. | Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue | BESTSELLER. In 1960s Paris, a familiar voice in the street invokes powerful memories of the childhood of Madame Choureau, alias Louki, whose enigmatic existence is then recounted by four different narrators. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.10 | ||
| Modiano, P. | Un pedigree | Modiano relates his childhood and introduces the themes that run through his work. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Moix, Y | Partouz | In order to seduce a mystery woman, a man begins to frequent the swingers" clubs she favours. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.40 | ||
| Moix, Y. | Panthéon | Recounts the childhood of the author who attempts to escape from his fate as a child martyr abused by his parents. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.10 | ||
| Mokeddem, M. | Mes hommes | An Algerian woman doctor who has grown up in a male environment reflects male attitudes to emancipated women. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Monénembo, T. | Le roi de Kahel | Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2008. Based on the life of the Vimcomte of Sanderval who, in the 1880s, began a project to conquer Fouta-Djalon (modern day Guinea) by building a railway line through hostile territory. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.60 | ||
| Monnier, A. | Givrée | Ironic and absurd novel which proves that sometimes it is the small things which are truly life-changing. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Montana, C. | Carla on my mind | A tragi-comedy about a painful break up from the talented author of "Malabar trip". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Montana, C. | La faute à Mick Jagger | The adventures of little Simon doing what he can to become an adult, which is not easy when you have parents full of love and LSD, who dance, drink and smoke pot…along the way forgetting their young boy. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Mordillat, G. | Notre part des ténèbres | While a celebration party is taking place on board the luxury space shuttle Nausicaa, something happens to instill deep uncertainty and fear amongst those on board. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.35 | ||
| Motrot, I. | Résidence secondaire | A sentimental and joyous comedy about morals. In a small village in Normandy, several couples make the most of their second home, or rather, attempt to. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Moussafir, R. | Du vent dans mes mollets | Nine year old Rachel is taken to see Madame Trebla, a well-meaning child psychologist. Written from the young girl's point of view, Moussafir explores the world of childhood in this witty, engaging and touching novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Muratet, F. | Stoppez les machines | In a little factory in the Parisian suburbs, a violent strike breaks out, led by three young workers — a militant trade unionist and two musicians. A captivating novel about the complexity of social conflict. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £14.80 | ||
| Musso, G. | Et après… | A successful lawyer meets a charismatic cancer specialist with an unusual gift. Written in the same emotional register as a Marc Levy novel with the added intrigue of Patricia Cornwell. An instant bestseller. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Musso, G. | Je reviens te chercher | The main character gets the chance to change his destiny by living the same day again and again. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Musso, G. | Parce que je t'aime | BESTSELLER. 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…Full of mystery and suspense with an unforgettable ending. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Musso, G. | Que serais-je sans toi? | 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? |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| N'Sondé, W. | Le cœur des enfants léopards | A young man wakes up in a prison cell but cannot remember how he got there. Faced with a barrage of police questions, he suddenly begins to hear the voices of his African ancestors. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Ndiaye, M | Mon Cœur à l'étroit | (2009). Nadia and her husband Ange are both teachers at a school in Bordeaux. However, the attitude towards the couple begins to sour and they find themselves the object of a bitter and inexplicable hostility from the students, their colleagues and the town. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Autoportrait en vert | Intimate illustrated novella by the prizewinning author of "Rosie Carpe". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.20 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Rosie Carpe | PRIX FEMINA 2001. The seventh novel of Marie Ndiaye tells the story of Rosie Carpe, a lonely, pregnant immigrant from Guadelope. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.00 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Un temps de saison | |
| Reprints. Published 2003. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Trois femmes puissantes | BESTSELLER. Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2009. These stories revolve around three women who say 'no'. Each is fighting to maintain their dignity in the face of the humiliations that life inflicts upon them with a methodical stubbornness. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Ndione, A. | Ramata | The story of an old woman named Ramata found dead in front of a café. An interesting tale full of twists and turns which evokes the social and cultural realities of Senegal. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Chaleur du sang | BESTSELLER Recently discovered treasure following the success of "Suite française". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Les Chiens et les Loups | Ada and Harry meet in Paris and fall in love, years after they both fled the Jewish ghetto in Ukraine where they grew up together. A story of escape, exile, nostalgia and love. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Dimanche, et autres nouvelles | A collection of fifteen short stories published between 1934 and 1942. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Les feux de l'automne | Bestseller. Published in 1948 six years after Irène Némirovsky's death, this posthumous classic denounces the bourgeois hypocrisy of the inter-war period. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Jézabel | The trial of a young beautiful woman, who listens as the story of her life is recounted by witnesses: her childhood, exile, her absent father, the stormy relationship with her daughter, up to the irreparable crime itself. Passion is put on trial. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | La Maître des âmes | A doctor agrees to perform a clandestine abortion in 1920's Nice. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Le malentendu | The first ever novel from Irène Némirovsky, winner of the Prix Renaudot for 'Suite française'. Set in 1920s France, the 'années folles' are bitter for Yves Harteloup. A young soldier traumatised by the war, Yves meets Denise, and they begin an affair. But slowly his melancholy pushes her away and towards another man. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Les vierges et autres nouvelles | Eleven short stories, most written during the Nazi occupation of France. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Le vin de solitude | A largely autobiographical novel about a family of Russian refugees in Paris, and one girl's liberation from this oppressive and secretive family. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Némirovsky, Irène | Deux | Following the lives of Antoine and Marianne, as well as her sister and an old friend of Antoine, Némirovsky reveals the morals of the post-war era. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Nimier, M. | Les inséparables | A story about the friendship between the narrator and Léa who have known each other since childhood. As Léa grows up, she falls into drugs and prostitution. From the winner of the Prix Médicis 2004 for "La Reine du silence." |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Nimrod | Les Jambes d'Alice | The award-winning Chadian poet describes vividly the tragedy of the civil war in Chad when a teacher and his student have a love affair. A deeply sensual reflection of the beauty of the female body and a eulogy to Africa. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Noirez, J. | Le chemin des ombres | Set in Ancient Japan, the princess Amaterasu searches for her missing parents. A magical and imaginative novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Noirez, J. | Leçons du monde fluctuant | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is exiled to a small island in the Indian Ocean, colonised by the British. The frontiers of reality, dreams and death collide, as Charles takes the pseudonym Lewis Carroll and searches for his Alice… |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Acide sulfurique | Novel about cruelty and voyeurism. A TV reality show requires candidates to live in a reconstructed concentration camp. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Biographie de la faim | Biographical novel based on the author's itinerant childhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Le fait du prince | BESTSELLER. Baptiste Bordave steals the identity of Olaf Sildur, a wealthy man who drops dead outside his house. Olaf's widow accepts Baptiste's presence, and Baptiste is slowly seduced by a life of wealth, wine and luxury. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Journal d'Hirondelle | BESTSELLER. After being heartbroken, a man becomes a cold-hearted hit-man until the day when he executes a minister and his family and comes across the intimate journal of a girl… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam | BESTSELLER. After the novel 'Stupeur et tremblements' in which Amélie Nothomb recounted her professional life in Japan, she reveals here the story of her engagement to a young man from Tokyo. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Le voyage d'hiver | BESTSELLER. A novel based on the premise that there is no failure in love. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Nyssen, H. | Éléonore à Dresde | Long ago, a star in a film set in Dresden remains a prisoner in her tragic role as an adolescent. Now in her forties, she reflects on the meaning of the film which has consumed her life. A powerful novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Nyssen, H. | Quand tu seras à Proust la guerre sera finie | A man retires to a village where he writes to an old lover about the meaning of life and the roles of people who have crossed his path. He battles with illusions, distrust and passion in his memory, imagination and dreams. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Ollivier, E. | Godelureaux | United by chance, a young group of mischevious friends live a carefree existence in St Germain-des-Prés. A novel which celebrates the Nouvelle Vague, 'Godelureaux' was made into a film by Claude Chabrol in 1961. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £21.50 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Olmi, V. | Sa passion | A magnificent book which one will want to read again and again about a woman who breaks up with her lover, the only man who she has ever loved but who is married. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Ono-dit-Biot, C. | Birmane | César decides to head to Burma to report on the biggest trafficker of opium. In Rangoon, he meets a doctor and an antique dealer who guide him through a formidable adventure. Prix Interallié 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Orban, C | Deux fois par semaine | A touching and surprisingly humourous account of a woman's twice weekly visit to her shrink. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Orban, C. | N'oublie pas d'être heureuse | After a childhood spent believing there is more to life, Marie-Lila moves to Paris where 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | La chanson de Charles Quint | The story of two brothers, who live in the same town but on opposite sides of the river, and their struggles with the abstract concept of love. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | Dernières nouvelles des oiseaux | Another wonderful fairy tale from the bestselling author of "La Grammaire est une Chanson Douce". Seven children will receive a newly created European prize named "The Prize for Passion". Beautifully illustrated by Santiago Morilla. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | Histoire du monde en neuf guitares | A young man persuaded not to sell his guitar finds that it becomes the focus of a journey of discovery through history from the pyramids to Jimi Hendrix. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.45 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | La révolte des accents | Previous winner of the Prix Goncourt, Erik Orsenna returns with this jubilatory exploration of the French language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Outers, J.-L. | Le Bureau de l'heure | A daydreamer and imsomniac at night is responsible for maintaining the Royal Observatory of time and leaves to search for his childhood sweetheart. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Ce que je sais de Vera Candida | BESTSELLER. Three women from 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Déloger l'animal | Fifteen-year-old Rose, who has a mental age of 7, is taken to an institute every day by her mother, where she is cared for by psychologists. One day, her mother disappears and Rose begins to ask questions and reinvent her own history. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Et mon coeur transparent | After Lancelot's wife dies suddenly in a car crash he decides to look into her past. Why did she claim to be orphaned when her father was in fact alive? Whose car was she in when she died? And why was a bomb-making manual hidden in their house? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Les Hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup | Romantic novel exploring themes of desire and dependence. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £3.00 | ||
| Paganelli, D. | Libre arbitre: onze histoires loyales ou déloyales du football mondial | Not just aimed at lovers of football, Paganelli recounts fluidly and passionately these stories which are based on true events. Touches on the symbolic values of football such as the struggle against repression, dictators and totalitarianism regimes. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Page, M. | On s'habitue aux fins du monde | Why does Elias, a successful film producer, throw his coveted award in the Seine? |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Pages, N. | I Love NY | A novel written in the form of a dialogue. The two main characters confess their involvement in an American underworld of crime and drugs smuggling. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Pancol, K | Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles | A writer decides to retire and persuades her sister to carry on with the job of writing in her place! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Pancol, K. | Les écureuils 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Pancol, K. | Et monter lentement dans un immense amour … | On the day of her wedding, Angelina runs off with Mann, a man she met the day before and fell madly in love with. They live together happily until Angelina's demons finally catch up with her. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Pancol, K. | Premiers romans | Pancol's first three novels in one volume: Moi d'abord; Scarlett, si possible; Vu de l'extérieur. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Pancol, K. | La Valse lente des tortues | BESTSELLER. Thanks to the success of her recent book, Joséphine moves to a new neighbourhood in Passy but a series of murders disturb the area. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Parisis, J.-M. | La mélancolie des fast-foods | The portrait of a young man, a "passive fascist" called Hugues Laroque. His sinister tendencies (vanity, violence, racism, morbid romanticism) have a historic air to them. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Pécassou, B. | La Villa Belza | A novel about the emancipation, hope, love, liberty and the eternal conflict between progress and tradition when a woman returns to the Basque country where she was born. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.70 | ||
| Pécherot, P. | Belleville-Barcelone | Set in 1938, in Paris, during the final years of the Front Populaire, this novel traces the events occuring while war ravages Spain and Hitler takes over Austria. A novel of intrigue by the prizewinning author of "Brouillards de la Butte." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Péju, P. | Coeur de pierre | Two people, alienated from their everyday lives, meet the mysterious Mémé la Noire, who reveals to them that they are characters in a novel. A captivating read. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Péju, P. | Le Rire de l'ogre | Holidaymakers Clara and Paul uncover war wounds in the Bavarian countryside. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Pennac, D. | Chagrin d'école | Narrated from the perspective of a bad student at school this novel reflects upon school life, the role of parents in education, and the desire of young students to learn. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Pennac, D. | Merci (suivi de Mes italiens) | On reception of a prize, a man delivers a monologue thanking just about everyone he can think of. More hilarity from comic author Pennac. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Perrault, G. | La Jeune femme triste | A woman revisits a house where she used to live during World War 2. Last in a trilogy comprising "Le Garçon aux yeux gris" (adapted for the screen as "Les Égarés') and "L'Homme au bout du rouleau". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Perrault, G. | La jeune femme triste | The final volume in the trilogy which began with "Le garçon aux yeux gris" sees Sylvie, a young girl during the exodus of 1940, return to the house where she hid with her mother and a mysterious boy fourteen years previously. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Perrault, G. | Le secret du Roi: La Passion Polonaise (Volume 1) | A contemporary enquiry into the historical event in France called 'The Secret of the King': during the reign of Louis XV the secret service of the King's court attempted to install a Frenchman on the Polish throne. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.85 | ||
| Perreau, L. | La fortune de Richard Wallace | In 1870 the unmarried Marquis of Hertford leaves his immense fortune and art collection to his secretary, Richard Wallace. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Petersen, P. | Une fenêtre au hasard | A lonely woman observes the empty flat opposite her, and invents and writes all manner of stories, always hoping that something exciting will happen on the other side of rue des Martyrs. One day a young man moves in. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Petit, C. | Bombay Victoria | This novel draws on the author's personal experiences to tell the story of three characters: a young volunteer nurse, the headmaster of a school for orphans, and an Indian street-child who travels to Bombay to find his uncle. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Picouly, D. | Un beau jeudi pour tuer Kennedy | 1964. The 15 year old narrator recounts a particular day in his life and hesitates over his potential destinies. Rhythmic, fast-paced and energetic. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Picouly, D. | Le Général et moi | It's May 1968 and France is paralysed by strikes and protests. Narrated by a young Parisian student and son of a factory-worker, Picouly's novel brings this tumultuous period of modern French history to life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Pineau, G | Fleur de Barbarie | Josette was born in Guedeloupe but raised in France by a foster family. When her real mother decides to take her back to Guedeloupe she is able to rediscover her roots. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Pingeot, M. | Le cimetière des poupées | From prison, in a letter to her husband, a woman recounts events leading to her murder of her child. An engaging, courageous novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Plantagenet, A. | Pour les siècles des siècles | Seven short stories based on the themes of love, seduction and desire. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Pliskin, F. | L'Agent dormant | Bus driver Mohammed feels ostracised and humiliated until he meets a man who will become his guru. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Pliskin, F. | Le juif et la métisse: Histoire d'un bourgeois de Paris | David, a left-wing Jewish professeur meets and falls in love with Bintu, a young right-wing, mixed-race girl. But she is not the oppressed victim David sees in her and questions whether he is merely seduced by fantasies of multiculturalism and exoticism? |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.35 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. | Disparaître | Set in 1935 in Dorset, an RAF soldier falls into a deep coma after a car accident, surrounded by the police, secret service and the press. A poetical homage to Lawrence of Arabia. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. | Frères et sœur | Two brothers are searching separately for their sister after the family was split up ten years previously. They meet each other, and discover a brotherly relationship that is at times fraught but also vibrant. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, P. et. O. | J'ai tant rêvé de toi | A young research student travels to Prague, ostensibly in the name of her thesis, but in fact to meet her father. She is fragile and troubled and confronted by a complicated Casanova figure. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Polack, S. | Route Royale | 21-year-old Constance has just got out of prison and she knows that the love of her life, David, will not be coming back. She is alone until she meets Werner on Christmas Eve, a mysterious man with a trust fund and a fascination for criminals |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Polet, G. | Leurs vies éclatantes | A photographer installs himself in the tower of Saint Sulpice in Paris to take panoramic photos of the church and the square. He witnesses both a wedding and a funeral, and watches the vibrant life of Parisians go by. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Pollet-Villard, P. | La fabrique de souvenirs | A comic look at family life in the aftermath of 1968. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Pollet-Villard, P. | L'homme qui marchait avec une balle dans la tête | A stylish, comic and poetic text about a man who becomes a gangster, documenting his crimes, love affairs, his family and his ideal quest. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| 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.". |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Pujade-Renaud, C. | Le Désert de la Grâce | Until its eradication in 1709 the Abbey Port-Royal des Champs, opposite Versailles, was a symbol of independence. This story of persecution and survival is told by a group of women, including Marie-Catherine Racine, daughter of Jean Racine. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Pulvar, A. | L'Enfant-bois | Eva returns to Martinique after a long exile. Painful memories are rekindled. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Puppinck, B. | Satine | Satine, a manicurist in a chic beauty salon in Paris" Place Vendôme is descending into a spiral of paranoia. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Quadruppani, S. | Colchiques dans les prés | After twenty years in prison, Simon is released and vows to confront his former accomplices to find out why they betrayed him. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | La puissance des corps | A patient of psychotherapy experiences disturbing nightmares involving dystopian visions of the future. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | L'Amante | Paris 1969. Marc is eighteen years old and has just lost his mother. He wanders from one woman to another, always looking for true love. From the author of "Les Noces barbares", winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1985. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.75 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | Le Dégustation | A man in his fifties owns a wine business and marries a twenty-year-old wine-expert. Each have a secret and a past…A superb, interesting and well-written novel, rich in language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Quignard, P | Villa Amalia | On discovering her husband's infidelity, middle-aged Anne decides to start a new life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Quignard, P. | Les Paradisiaques: Dernier royaume 4 | A poetic companion to Quignard's "Sordidissimes" in the "Dernier royaume" series which began with the Goncourt winning "Ombres errantes". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Quignard, P. | Sordidissimes: Dernier royaume 5 | From the former Prix Goncourt winner. This text forms a dyptch with "Paradisiaques". Poetic and philosophical. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Quint, M. | Les Joyeuses | When a director arrives at Sablet to produce 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Quint, M. | Une ombre, sans doute | (2009). To understand his aged parents' sudden suicide, the narrator returns to his childhood village in Northern France. Flashback to the Second World War, and his parents have just met. The entire village is trying to ignore the outside horrors of war but their stability is threatened by arrival of an English spy and a German soldier. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Rahimi, A. | Syngué sabour: Pierre de patience | Winner of the 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Rambaud, P. | Le Chat botté | An excellent historical novel with humour about the ascension of a man after the fall of Robespierre - Bonaparte. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Rambaud, P. | Chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier | A satirical look behind the scenes of the President's first few months in offices. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Reinhardt, E. | Cendrillon | Tells the story of four men, one of whom is the author himself. Each have a troubled relationship with his father, suffer from feelings of inadequacy and fear in adolescence. After similar beginnings, the four go on to lead very different lives. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Reza, Y. | L'aube le soir ou la nuit | A drama following Nicolas Sarkozy in the year of his campaign to become President of France. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.80 | ||
| Reza,Y. | Nulle part | A partly autobiographical novella dealing with geneaology. From the controversial author of the hit play "Art" and "L'Aube, le soir ou la nuit". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.60 | ||
| Rheims, N. | Le rêve de Balthus | A glimpse of an enigmatic painting prompts an emancipatory trip to Venice. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Ricaud, A. | Pretty man | Marie is a journalist and has everything going for her - a perfect husband, four fabulous children and a job which she is passionate about. A refreshing and lively novel which proves that there is still life after one's fifties for women. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.00 | ||
| Riou, J-M. | Le Secret de Champollion | Historical novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Riou, J.-M. | L'espion de la couronne 1630: La vengeance de Richelieu | A young apprentice to the renowned architect Jacques Lemercier uncovers a cabal plotting to disgrace and maybe even assassinate the King's adviser, Cardinal Richelieu |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Riou, J.-M. | La prophétie de golgotha | (2009). Golgotha is a strange and powerful cult responsible for the assassination of Jaures and Arch Duke Ferdinand, the 1918 armistice, the Second World War…but why are they out to destroy civilisation and will they be discovered? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.70 | ||
| Robbe-Grillet, C. | Jeune mariée: Journal 1957-1962 | The intriguing diaries of the very young wife of Nouveau Roman author Alain Robbe-Grillet. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Roberts, J.-M. | La prière | In 1969, Antoine has just celebrated his 15th birthday and Naima is only just 20. She is unaware that Antoine will be attached to her for the rest of her life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Rolin, J. | Joséphine | Josésphine's disappearance tears her lover, the narrator, apart. He records the details of their relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.85 | ||
| Romilly, J. de | Les révélations de la mémoire | Based around several life changing moments for the author which have lead her to search for a deeper meaning and ask questions about life itself. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Rosnay, T. de | L'appartement témoin | Tatiana de Rosnay's first novel introduces us to a bored fifty-something New Yorker, led to Venice on the trail of a mysterious woman. Can our narrator find happiness? |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Rosnay, T. de | Le coeur d'une autre | Bruce's life is saved by a heart transplant. After the operation his tastes, his behaviour and even his personality change dramatically. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Rouart, J.-M. (de l'Académie française) | Le scandale | When a black woman is murdered by the son of a dignatory in a small American town in 1935, a cover-up ensues. Against a backdrop of social hypocrisy and moral fanaticism, a mixed-race couple become the victims of a witch hunt. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Rozen, A. | Vieilles Peaux | Rozen's two short stories reveal the multitude of 'skins' assumed over the course of a lifetime of encounters, infatuations and rages. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.25 | ||
| Rufin, J.-C. | Katiba | A branch of Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the murder of four European tourists in the desert. The US, French and Algerian secret services focus their investigation on a young French woman with a mysterious past and a missing husband. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Rufin, J.-C. | Le parfum d'Adam | Poland, Spring 2005. A young, militant ecologist frees laboratory animals and is led into the thick of a plot…An adventurous, breathless thriller from the successful author of "Rouge Brésil" and "L'Abyssin." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.70 | ||
| Rykner, A. | Nur | A man is sent on a mission to an oriental village ravaged by war where he meets a married woman. Powerful and sensual. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Sa, S. | Les conspirateurs | A CIA agent is tracking a former Tiananmen Square heroine now living in Paris. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Sabatier, R. | Le cordonnier de la rue triste | Set in a small street in Paris in the 1940s, young dreamer Marc inherits a shoemakers. When an accident changes his life forever, all the inhabitants of the street come to his rescue. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Saint-Bris, G. | Les vieillards de Brighton | |
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| Salvayre, L. | Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique | He is the king of the fast-food industry but Tobold has one more market to conquer: legacy. He hires a young author to write a biography. As she penetrates into the capitalist ideology she is both fascinated and horrified by her subject. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Sam, A. | Conseils d'amie à la clientele | BESTSELLER. From the author of the hit 'Tribulations d'une caissière'. Anna Sam's new book turns the tables as she tackles the experience of consumers in modern supermarkets, with a great comic touch. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Sam, A. | Les Tribulations d'une Caissière | Anna is a 28-year-old graduate who has spent the past eight years working at a supermarket check out. To survive the monotony of her job Anna starts to recount the tales of her work, observing the habits of a wide range of customers. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Sansal, B. | Harraga | Algerian Lamia's brother has disappeared. She is in despair. One day a woman, Chérifa, turns up at her house in Algiers… |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Sardou, R. | Délivrez-nous du mal | (2009). Set in winter 1288 against the backdrop of religious quarrels and the strength of the Church, this historical thriller tells the story of a young boy raised in a monastery but accused of witchcraft. At the same time a priest disappears in Rome. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Sardou, R. | Sauver Noël | 1854, London. The 25th December arrives but Christmas has not taken place. Sadness submerges the city, except for one house belonging to a strange baron who celebrates. His neighbour, the governess, decides to do everything to save Christmas. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Saumont, A. | Aldo, mon ami et autres nouvelles | Eleven short stories recounting the destinies of ordinary people in a world where distress is never far away. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.05 | ||
| Schmitt, É.-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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.00 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | L'enfant de Noé | With works translated worldwide and awarded the "Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie Française," Schmitt continues his success with this thought-provoking novella about a young Jewish boy taken under the wing of a simple and just priest. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | L'évangile selon Pilate | A personal view of the mystery of the resurrection, in the form of a novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires | Eight short stories, written while the author was directing a film, featuring eight different women from all walks of life and their quest for love and happiness. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | La rêveuse d'ostende | A collection of short stories from the renowned Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | Théâtre 1: la nuit de Valognes; le visiteur; le bâillon; l'école du diable | |
| Reprints. Price: £7.60 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.00 | ||
| Schneck, C. | Sa petite chérie | A tender and bitter novel about the madness of being loved. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.10 | ||
| Schneck, C. | Val de Grâce | The narrator tells of her happy childhood spent on Val-de-Grâce street, remembering its smells, its smallest corners, the baker's sweet treats, the dreams of princesses and fairytales — all of which helps her to forget the Holocaust. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.85 | ||
| Schneider, M. | Marilyn dernières séances | PRIZEWINNER A portrait of the star and her shrink who was unable to save her in her final days. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Sebbar, L. | La Seine était rouge | October 1961. The end of the war in Algeria is close, but a peaceful protest by the Seine turns violent and a dozen young Algerians are killed by French police. Nearly 40 years later, 16 year old Amel knows nothing about that fateful day. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Seksik, L. | Les derniers jours de Stefan Zweig | Fictionalised account of the exile of Zweig in Brazil and the last days that he passed with his wife, from September 1941 to February 1942 — the date of the couple's suicide. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Signol, C. | La Grande Île | Family strife in the Dordogne. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Signol, C. | Les Messieurs de Grandval, Volume 2: Les Dames de la Ferrière | After "Les Messieurs de Grandval," the novelist returns with this story about two new generations of Grandval who see their peaceful existence disrupted by the First World War. Impeded love, rivalry and family conflicts come in to play. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.15 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Signol, C. | Les vrais bonheurs | A hymn to the changing seasons and the beauty of nature. Based on childhood memories. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.65 | ||
| Sijie, D. | Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée | In 1978, a young French woman heads for Peking to study Chinese. There she meets a Chinese man who reveals his secret preoccupation to her — finding the missing part of a mysterious manuscript written in an unknown language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les anneau de Bicêtre | René Maugras, head of a media empire, wakes up in hospital half-paralysed after an accident during a business dinner. By the author of the hugely popular Maigret series. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Clients d'Avrenos | Set in Turkey. What links teenager Nouchi with alleged diplomat de Jonsac? |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Je me souviens | In 1940 the author was erroneously diagnosed with angina and given only a few years to live. He decided to tell his life story in the form of letters to his son. A novel from the hugely prolific author of the 'Maigret' series. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Lettre à ma mère: et autres textes | (2009). Inspired by Simenon's visit to his ill mother, he writes her an open letter exploring their relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Malempin | The illness of his son triggers a father's childhood memory of events he has surpressed. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Une vie comme neuve | Maurice Dudon, an eccentric hermit, is run over. The man driving checks himself into a clinic, and under the eye of charming nurse Anne-Marie, whom he marries, he discovers a new life and a new person within himself. A tale of redemption. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.55 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La vieille | Juliette, the old woman who lives on the fifth floor, is the last resident living in a ruined building targeted for redevelopment near the Hôtel de Ville. She refuses to leave, and refuses to go to an old people's home. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Simon, Y. | Je voudrais tant revenir | A writer isolated from the world goes to Paris to meet his biographer, a young and shy author. They eventually become close friends through their mutual desire for a meaningful and worthy life. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Simonay, B. | La porte de bronze | Aurévia is a planet of paradise and harmony where a couple's love for each other seems indestructible. However, the arrival of a lord threatens to disrupt the peace on their island. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.35 | ||
| 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, an Egyptian, a Palestinian and an Israeli will try to prove that despite the war, love has its place. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Sinoué, G. | Erevan | In the heart of the wild, mountainous Turkish countryside lives the Tomassian family. In 1915, the entire family is killed before the eyes of the grandchildren Aram, 12, and Yeva, 14. Thus begins a journey into hell for the two Armenian teenagers. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.85 | ||
| Smadja, B. | Le jaune est se couleur | Smadja beautifully evokes the dignity, courage and humour of a man facing death and his best friend's gradual acceptance of absence. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Sorman, J | Boys, boys, boys | A fun feminist novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Subiela, M. | Le Sang des Hauteville - 2: Le Royaume sur la Mer | Second in the historical fiction series 'Le Sang des Hauteville'. Robert de Hauteville wants to conquer Byzance and become emperor of the Orient, but jealousy, rivalry and intrigue threaten the kingdom. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.85 | ||
| Subiela, M. | Le sang des hauteville - 4: Les flammes noires de l'Etna | Great Guillaume II ascends to power in Sicily. He dreams of becoming the emperor of the Orient, but the kingdom is also sought after by Henri the Cruel, husband of the daughter of dead king Roger II. Last volume in the saga of the knights of Normandy. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.70 | ||
| Subiela, M. | Le sang des Hauteville, 1: Les Chevaliers de proie | Historical saga set around the year 1060 with the Norman Knights in Sicily. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.90 | ||
| Sulitzer, P-L. | L'Empire du dragon | Kidnapping and espionnage in the powerful Chinese industrial world. Thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.45 | ||
| Svit, B. | Un coeur de trop | A tale of self-discovery as a Slovenian woman marries a French man and lives in France until she learns that her father has died and that she has inherited a small house in her childhood village. A pleasure to read! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Taddeus, T. | La corde aux jours impairs | A young police inspector does not have much luck on his first investigation with a fearless and ruthless killer on the loose. Taddeus creates an original, raw first novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Tadjer, A. | Bel-Avenir | Recounting the story of a white man living in "Bel-Avenir" among a community of Arabs and Africans. By a writer who has the rare gift of speaking of serious matters with humour. A work reminiscent of Romain Gary and Daniel Pennac. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Tardieu, L. | Rêve d'amour | Alice doesn't remember much about her mother, who disappeared when she was five. Just before her father dies, he tells her of the other man her mother loved. Alice sets out to find this man and discover the truth about her past. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.15 | ||
| Tchoungui, E. | Je vous souhaite la pluie | Camerounian Ngazan leaves Africa for Paris and finds it hard to adapt to her new life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Testud, S. | Le ciel t'aidera | Heart warming novel about a girl with too much imagination. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Testud, S. | Gamines | In Lyon, a 10 year-old girl is brought up by her Italian mother and two older sisters in a world of unspoken secrets. A story full of humour, tenderness and emotion. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Teulé, J. | Darling | Dedicated to those who refuse to suffer the cruelty of life in silence, Jean Teulé tells the story of a woman who wishes to be called "Darling" to erase the memories of a painful childhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.00 | ||
| Teulé, J. | Longues peines | A tragi-comedy set in a detention centre. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Teulé, J. | Le Magasin des Suicides | In this clever black comedy, the Tuvache family owns and operates a store unlike any other – one that is filled solely with products that help in committing suicide. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Teulé, J. | L'oeil de Pâques | Set in Calais, the paths of the main characters cross following the discovery of a crime. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Tillinac, D. | Je nous revois… | After the death of Raoul Dutheil, the fragile harmony of his cosmopolitan group of friends is shattered. A novel of decadence and humour. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Tong Cuong, V. | Ferdinand et les iconoclastes | The rise and rise of Ferdinand, handsome, intelligent and successful… |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.30 | ||
| Tong Cuong, V. | Où je suis | Agnès is a man-hunter. Her aim is to take revenge on the entire male species. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £3.50 | ||
| Tong Cuong, V. | Providence | A bite from a dog, a failed suicide attempt and an explosion bring together the protagonists in a hospital. All the characters see their lives transformed by the small events that providence throws their way. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Toussaint, J.-P. | L'appareil-photo | A burlesque novel originally published in 1988. This reprint includes an recent interview with the author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Toussaint, J.-P. | Fuir | BESTSELLER. The moment he arrives in China the author is given a mobile phone – is this a gift or a method of surveillance? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Touzet, C. | La reine violée: Éclose entre fleurs de lys | First in a series of historical novels about the renowned Isabelle de Bavière. Isabelle is a thirteen year old Bavarian princess when she meets French King Charles VI. They fall in love and are married within three days. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Tremblay, M. | Bonbons assortis | Centred around the theme of the lost paradise of childhood, the author presents a collection of connected short stories: tender, funny and bittersweet. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.45 | ||
| Tronchet, D. | Nous deux moins toi | Isabelle has just left Jean-Claude. His getting used to the situation involves feeling abandoned, alone, worthless and then the seduction of other women begins. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Trouillot, L. | L'amour avant que j'oublie | An older man declares his love to a young woman through writing. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Trouillot, L. | Bicentenaire | Student demonstrations disrupt bicentenary celebrations of the independence of Haïti in 2004. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Troyat, H. | La Fiancée de l'ogre | Inspired by Napoleon's real life "eternal fiancée', the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| van Cauwelaert, D. | L'Évangile de Jimmy | A swimming pool repair man in Connecticut is mistaken for Jesus Christ. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Van Cauwelaert, D. | La nuit dernière au XVe siècle | Surreal comedy about a tax collector who knocks on the door of an old château whose inhabitants believe him to be Guillaume d'Arboud, companion of Jeanne d'Arc and lover of Isabeau de Grénant. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Van Cauwelaert, D. | Le père adopté | The author addresses his father, who died in 2005, and his ancestry of eccentrics, inventors and hard men. He relives his nicoise childhood, and the family lies, pranks and absolute confidences between him and his father that came with it. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Van Cauwelaert, D. | Rencontre sous X | The meeting between Talia, a young Ukranian who comes to Paris to become a model and a young South African footballer. |
| Reprints. Published 2004. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Vargas, F. | Critique de l'anxiété pure | A monologue from the famous author Fred Vargas, as the reader follows the detours and inner thoughts of researching the subject of a novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.65 | ||
| Various | 3 nouvelles comiques | Three funny short stories with annotations — "Un drame bien parisien', "Héloïse" and " Pour préparer un œuf dur". Student's edition. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £3.40 | ||
| Vasseur, F. | Une fille dans la ville | From New York to Kabul via Paris, Seoul and Mexico, this is a fascinating road-novel about a heroine who creates her own business, fears boredom and has a hatred for the mundane. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.60 | ||
| Vautrin, J. | Si on s'aimait? | A collection of stories which depict the cracks, habits and personal worries of people from different countries and of all ages. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Viel, T. | Insoupçonnable | Lisa is marrying Henri, a rich widower twice her age; our narrator, Sam, is her brother. At least, Henri must believe that he is her brother, in order for their kidnapping plot to be successful… |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Vigan, D. de | Les heures souterraines | 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? |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Vigan, D. de | Les jolis garçons | Three chapters, each on a different man in Emma's life — a smooth lawyer, a charming but married man, and an egocentric television producer. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Vigan, D. de | No et moi | Winner of the Prix des Librairies 2008 and shortlisted for the Prix des Lecteurs 2009. A young intellectual savant meets a homeless girl hardly older than herself and brings her home to rescue her. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Vilar, J.-F. | C'est toujours les autres qui meurent | An atmospheric, dark novel where the intrigue revolves around Marcel Duchamp's last painting, "Etant donnés." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Vizinczey, S. | Eloge des femmes mûres | Bestselling novel about the sentimental education of a young man in the arms of older women. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | Les futurs mystères de Paris 2: Les ravisseurs quantiques | Science Fiction series. Tem leads an enquiry about the mysterious use of hallucinogenics. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.80 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | L.G.M. | In a parallel world in the 1990s, the USSR dominates the world and the United States is undergoing a new civil war. A French secret agent is in charge of finding the ambassador of the planet Mars who has been abducted. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | L'odyssée de l'espèce | Set in Paris 2063, private detective Tem is unjustly accused of a crime he did not commit. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Wagner, R.C. | Les futurs mystères de Paris 1: la balle du néant | Centred around a private detective who has the special power of being "transparent" and who leads an investigation into the death of a physicist. Highly recommended for fans of detective and fantasy novels. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Walker, A. | Saloon | Heir to an opulent family fortune, Lisa Duval leaves New York for Paris in an attempt to escape the ghosts of her past. However, when her mother appears, Lisa decides it's time to confront her past. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Weerts, F. | Les sirènes d'Alexandrie | In 80s Brussels, Antoine Daillez discovers that he has inherited a brothel, the Alexandria. However, the Alexandria attracts drama and greed, and Antoine struggles to understand its attraction. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £10.55 | ||
| Weisberger, L | People or not people | Translation of "Everyone Worth Knowing". Author of the hit "The Devil Wears Prada". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Werber, B. | Le miroir de Cassandre | 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Werber, B. | Le Mystère des dieux | BESTSELLER. Final book in the trilogy 'Nous, les dieux'. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Werber, B. | Le papillon des étoiles | Recounting the flight of a large handful of human beings into space on the "Papillon des étoiles", in search of a planet where a new humanity can be born…Written by the popular author of "Les Fourmis." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Werber, B. | Paradis sur mesure | Seventeen short stories, in the form of fables, legends and tales, questioning the morality of mankind and the future of the planet. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Werth, L. | Clavel chez les major | Like many soldiers Werth became a profound pacifist after his experience of the trenches in WWI. First published in 1919, this is his anti-war novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £17.45 | ||
| Weyergans, F. | Trois jours chez ma mère | Finally available in reprint, the 2005 Goncourt winner is a real gem. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Wiazemsky, A. | Jeune fille | PRIZEWINNER In 1965, the 18 year-old narrator meets the film-maker Robert Bresson who tries to seduce her. Wiazemsky plunges the reader with modesty, restraint and great skill into youth. Prix Lilas 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2011. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Winckler, M. | Les Trois médecins | Follow-up to the bestselling doctor series "La Maladie de Sachs" and "La Vacation', featuring protagonist Bruno Sachs. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Zamponi, F. | In nomine Patris | During a murder trial, a lawyer is called to defend a priest who stands accused of involvement in terrorist activities during the Algerian war, thirty-seven years earlier. Little by little, the truth from the past begins to resurface. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Zeller, F. | La Fascination du pire | Prix Interallié 2004. A young writer fascinated by Flaubert is invited to a conference in Egypt. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Zeller, F. | Julien Parme | Narrated with humour and style by a fourteen year-old who is misunderstood by his mother, step-father and his half-sister who he can never live up to. He takes us with him through his highs and lows and his first moments of freedom. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
