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Author:	Title:	Description:
Various	1,2,3… le bonheur en littérature	Short stories about happiness from Voltaire, Gide and many others.
French: Reprints. Price: £2.50
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!
French: Reprints. Price: £11.10
Abécassis, E.	Un heureux événement	Taboo breaking novel about the disintegration of a couple after the arrival of their first child.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.30
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.55
Alexakis, V.	Je t'oublierai tous les jours
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.50
Angot, C.	Les Désaxés	Relationship problems for François and Sylvie.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.65
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.40
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.
French: Reprints. 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…
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.45
Arnothy, C.	Une question de chance	Nora, a professional high flyer has been unlucky in love since the death of her husband. She also longs to adopt children.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.25
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.50
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.35
Aulnoy, Madame d'	Contes de fées	A collection of magical fairy tales from the seventeenth century.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
Barbery, M.	Une gourmandise
French: Reprints. Price: £6.65
Barillé, É.	Singes	Marion goes to India with a mission. She meets some strange characters along the way.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.60
Begag, A.	Le marteau pique-coeur
French: 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….
French: Reprints. Price: £7.50
Bégaudeau, F.	Entre les murs	A fly-on-the-wall look at a French school.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.70
Bégaudeau, F.	Jouer juste	An excellent first novel in which the author mixes the subjects of football and love.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.75
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.75
Belletto, R.	L'Enfer	A man wants to end it all and writes a suicide note. Alas he is unable to find a stamp! Awarded the Prix Femina in 1986.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
Bello, A.	Les Falsificateurs	A breathtaking, paranoiac thriller about a secret international organisation, the CFR, which falsifies reality.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.45
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.10
Benacquista, T.	Malavita	An American family move in to a sleepy Norman village. A piece of advice…move out now!
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.45
Berthelot, F	Hadès Palace	Science fiction.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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'?
French: Reprints. Price: £9.95
Besson, P	La paresseuse	A French boy meets a mesmerising English girl, Cynthia, in 1970's England.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.95
Besson, P.	Accessible à une certaine mélancolie	Portrait of a war reporter with a complicated love life.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Besson, P.	Encore que	Pocket-sized collection of aphorisms and other thoughts.
French: Reprints. Price: £2.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.65
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Bey, M.	Sous le jasmin de la nuit	Eleven short stories from Algeria with women protagonists.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
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?
French: Reprints. Price: £7.35
Beyala, C.	La Plantation	In Zimbabwe land is being confiscated from the white farmers and redistributed. The once-privileged may face exile. An African "Gone with the Wind".
French: Reprints. Price: £8.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.50
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.50
Bohringe, R.	C'est beau une ville la nuit/Blues	Autobiographical musings of actor Bohringer recently made into a film.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
Boissard, J.	La Chaloupe 2. L'Aventurine	Second volume in the "Chaloupe" saga and follow-up to "Le talisman".
French: Reprints. Price: £7.45
Bordage, P.	Orchéron	Science fiction.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.55
Boulouque, C.	Chasse à courre	A novel about power and headhunting from up and coming young writer Boulouque.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.65
Bouraoui, N.	Avant les hommes	The story of a tempestuous summer spent by an adolescent boy consumed by his desires for another man.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.40
Bouraoui, N.	Mes mauvaises pensées	Prix Renaudot 2005. A confessional novel relating the weekly meetings between a patient and her analyst.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.20
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.
French: Reprints. 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….
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
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?
French: Reprints. Price: £7.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.10
Brussolo, S	La nuit du bombardier	Science fiction from this bestselling and versatile author.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.75
Brussolo, S.	La Fenêtre jaune	Thriller.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.85
Brussolo, S.	La Fille aux cheveux rouges	Set in the London blitz of 1940. An amnesiac woman attempts to discover her true identity.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.85
Brussolo, S.	Sécurité absolue	Thriller set in California.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.20
Buron, N. de	Où sont mes lunettes?	A humorous novel about growing old.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.85
La Callet, B.	Une pièce montée	The disintegration of a wedding ceremony!
French: Reprints. Price: £7.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.15
Castillon, C.	Insecte	Nineteen short stories on the subject of mother-daughter relationships.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.95
Castillon, C.	On n'empêche pas un petit cœur d'aimer	A collection of stories surrounding the theme of relationships between couples.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.35
Cathrine, A.	Sweet home	A family bound together by silence. One by one each member takes their turn to speak out.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Cauvin, P.	Belange	Adrien discovers a squatter is inhabiting his weekend country retreat during the rest of the week!
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.85
Cauwelaert, D.	Attirances	Three novellas on a paranormal theme.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.50
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.30
Chandernagor, F.	L'Allée du Roi	The fictional memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Chandernagor, F.	Couleur du temps	Portrait of a fictional painter.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.70
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.75
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.95
Chapuis, B.	La Vie parlée	Six characters describe a mystery person… Prix Roger Nimier 2005.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.30
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.
French: Reprints. 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…
French: Reprints. Price: £10.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.20
Chauveau, S.	La Passion Lippi	Famous for his sublime Madonnas, the fifteenth century artist Filippo Lippi changed the perception of the artist from artisan to art world superstar.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
Chauveau, S.	Le Rêve Botticelli	In the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent rivalry rages between the painters Bottocelli and Da Vinci. Sequel to "La Passion Lippi".
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
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."
French: Reprints. Price: £6.60
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.30
Claudel, P	La petite fille de Monsieur Linh	The story of refugee Monsieur Linh.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.90
Claudel, P.	Les Âmes grises	Bestseller. Award-winning powerful novel about a provincial French town experiencing the horrors of war.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.50
Claudel, P.	Le Café de l'Excelsior	A childhood spent in grandfather's café.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.25
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.80
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.75
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.30
Clément, C.	Le Sang du monde	Follow-up to Clément's bestselling novel "Le Sang du monde".
French: Reprints. Price: £7.65
Le Clézio, J.-M. G	L'African	The author describes discovering Africa at the age of eight where he meets his father, the African, for the first time.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.35
Le Clézio, J.-M. G	Ourania	Novel telling the story of the downfall of two Mexican utopias — One constructed following the Thomas More model, and the second based on Jerusalem.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.40
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.80
Combet, F.	SchrummSchrumm ou l'excursion dominicale aux sables mouvants.	Reprint of this unusual text which originally appeared in 1966.
French: Reprints. Price: £18.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.75
Confiant, R.	Le Cahier de romances	One of the most important contemporary writers from the French Caribbean, Martinican writer Confiant presents the second volume of his childhood memoirs.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.90
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.65
Daeninckx, D.	Le retour d'Ataï	Based on fact, the novel sees Gocéné return to Paris for the first time since the colonial exhibition of 1931. The follow-up to Daeninckx" "Cannibale".
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
Dantec, M.	Cosmos incorporated	Sometime in the near future, Sergueï Plotkine is hired to kill the mayor of Grand Junction… Science fiction.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
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.
French: Reprints. 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…
French: Reprints. 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'.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.70
de Buron, N.	C'est fou ce qu'on voit de choses dans la vie	The author's memoirs of an unusual peripatetic adolescence.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
de Carolis, P.	Les Demoiselles de Provence	Set in the land of the troubadours - 13th century Provence. The intrigues of an illustrious family headed by Raimon Beranger V and his wife Béatrice of Savoie.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.30
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….
French: Reprints. Price: £9.10
Deambrosis, M.	Après-midi avec Rock Hudson, Un	Dorita has it all; a doctor husband, grown up children to be proud of, riches… but when she meets an old school friend in trouble, will she help?
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.55
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.20
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.20
Delerm, P	La bulle de Tiepolo	Against a Venice backdrop, a man and a woman argue about a painting.
French: Reprints. 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'
French: Reprints. 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!
French: Reprints. Price: £6.40
Delerm, P.	Enregistrements pirates	More poetic snippets of everyday trivia from bestselling Delerm.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.15
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…
French: Reprints. Price: £3.80
Deniau, J. F.	Le Grand Jeu	Third in a trilogy set in the diplomatic world.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.50
Déon, M.	Cavalier, passe ton chemin!	Notes on the authors" travels in Ireland. Déon has also written on Greece.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Depestre, R.	L'œillet ensorcelé et autres nouvelles	Collection of short stories.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.30
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.
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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.
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Despentes, V.	Bye bye Blondie	Despentes most powerful novel to date. Portrait of a women who doesn't know how to be happy.
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Despentes, V.	King Kong théorie	The author of the notorious "Baise-moi" reflects on her personal itinerary and the unconventional choices she has made.
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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.
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Diome, F.	Kétala	Second novel from the author of the very successful "Le Ventre de l'Atlantique".
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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.
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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.
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Diwo, J.	Moi, Milanollo, fils de Stradivarius	Exhilarating historical novel on a musical theme from bestselling author of "Les Violons du Roi".
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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.
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Djebar, A.	La Disparition de la langue française	50 year-old Bekrane returns to Algeria after a twenty-year exile in France.
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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.
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Djian, P.	Doggy bag: Saison 2	A sort of French "Dallas" but funnier and more sophisticated! Second volume in the series.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.	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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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.	Grandes Blondes, les	Playful, masterful prose from award-winning author of "Je m'en vais". A journalist researches the great blondes of cinema for a new television series.
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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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Fargues, N.	Rade Terminus	From an author living and working in Madagascar, an insight into colonialism, race and culture set in the utopian landscape of the Indian Ocean.
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Fédorovsky, V.	Le Roman de Saint-Petersbourg	The greatest moments in the history of the city.
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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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Fellous, C.	Aujourd'hui	Set in Tunis during the six day war of 1967.
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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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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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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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Fleutiaux, P.	Les Amants imparfaits	Nine year-old Raphaël falls in with dangerous company in the form of affluent twins Camille and Léo. A novel on the theme of lost innocence.
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Foenkinos, D.	En cas de bonheur	Pertinent dissection of a modern couple.
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Fontaine, B.	Nouvelles de l'exil	A reprint of the singer's book of anecdotes previously published in 1989.
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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.
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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.
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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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Fottorino, E.	Korsakov	Prize winning novel about a man with Korsakov syndrome - or a very imaginative memory disorder….
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Fourier, C.	Métro Ciel (suivi de Vague conjugale)	Short stories.
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Frébourg, O.	Un homme à la mer	Voyages made by sea plus impressions of cities such as Buenos Aires, Lisbon and many more…
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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.
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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.	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.
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Gallo, M.	La croix de l'occident, 2: Paris vaut bien une messe	The second part of the historical novel based in medieval France.
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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.
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Gallo, M.	Un homme de pouvoir	Philippe Arius was a man of power. A man who worked magic for the likes of Pompidou, Mitterrand and Chirac, and helped them to the top. But, in 2001, he was arrested and imprisoned. How did it come to this?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Garcin, C.	L'embarquement	Thomas is a natural born wanderer. His latest trip - five countries in six days!
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Garcin, C.	Vidas: Vies volées	Chapters exploring the unusual lives of historic personalities such as Catulus, Maria Magdalen, Agrippa d'Aubigné and Emily Dickinson.
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Garcin, J.	Cavalier seul: Journal équestre	The third in an equestrian trilogy.
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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.
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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.	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.
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Gaudé, L.	Le Soleil des Scorta	Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2004. An epic novel spanning several generations of the Italian Scorta family.
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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.
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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.
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Germain, S.	Magnus	Franz-Georg is amnesiac and has to relearn his German identity. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2005.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Goffette, G	Une enfance lingère	Lingerie themed childhood memories!
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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.
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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.
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Gran, I.	Ipso facto	More dark humour from the Russian-born winner of the Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir in 2003, with a survival guide for bachelors like the narrator himself.
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Grangé, J.-C.	La Ligne noire	Reverdi is a serial killer recently captured in Malaysia. Hot on his trail is journalist Dupeyrat… Bestselling thriller.
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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.
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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…
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Groult, B.	La Touche étoile	A novel dealing with the theme of destiny. Three women, Moïra, Marion and Alice, are all confronted by it.
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Guedj, D.	Le théorème du perroquet	Monsieur Ruche must delve into the history of mathematics to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance.
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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."
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Guène, F.	Kiffe kiffe demain	Bestseller. Humorous novel about a girl who lives alone with her mother in a troubled Parisian suburb.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Houellebecq, M.	La Possibilité d'une île	Prix Interallié 2005. Houellebecq's science fiction novel about sects, eternel life and cloning.
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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.
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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".
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Jabès, S.	Clitomotrice	The adventures of Clémentine and her clitoris!
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Jacques, P.	Rachel-Rose et l'officier arabe	A psychological thriller set in 1950's Cairo.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jarry, I.	J'ai nom sans bruit	Destitute poet Marie is broke and is forced to leave her daughter with social services. To get her back she must deal with a wall of bureaucracy.
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Jauffre, R.	Asiles de fous	Pris Femina 2005. Ordinary madness in an ordinary family.
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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.
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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.
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Jaworski, J.-P.	Janua vera	PRIX DU CAFARD COSMIQUE 2008. Science-fiction combining fantasy and a cold stab of reality.
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Jean, R.	Un Fantasme de Bella B. et autres récits	A collection of stories combining eroticism and fantasy surrounding beautiful, ambiguous female characters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kenig, A.	Camping Atlantic	From a young and gifted writer, about two brothers who rebel against their parents.
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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.
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Khadra, Y.	La dingue au bistouri	Crime novel set in Algiers. From the best selling author of "Les Hirondelles de Kaboul" and "L'Attentat".
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Khadra, Y.	Les sirènes de Bagdad	The descent into terrorism of a naïve country boy who falls prey to islamic extremism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.95
Krug, C.	Demain si tout va bien	First novel in which Garance attempts to win her ex- back with comic results!
French: Reprints. Price: £4.85
Kundera, M.	Le Rideau	Essay in seven chapters.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.05
Kuperman, N.	J'ai renvoyé Marta	Sandra employs a Polish cleaner but soon finds the tension mounting.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.15
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.50
Laclavetine, J-M.	Matins bleus	One day in the life of a busy railway station.
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Laferrière, D	Le goût des jeunes filles	A Haitian exile's sensual evocation of his adolescence in Port-au-Prince.
French: Reprints. 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
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Lanzmann, C.	Shoah
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £2.50
Laurens, C.	Cet absent-là	Illustrated meditation on the theme of loss from this prizewinning author.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Le Rouge, G.	Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius	A reprint of the popular science fiction thriller series originally published 1912.
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Lemoine, A.	Les heures chaudes	A passionate love story which leads to a fevered duel underneath a blistering summer sun.
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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.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.80
Lévy, B.-H.	American vertigo
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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.
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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.
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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!
French: Reprints. Price: £10.75
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.
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Levy, M.	Vous revoir	Bestselling romantic novel from the phenomenal Marc Levy.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £15.15
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.40
Lopez, G.	Les Petits Cailloux	Memoirs of the charismatic school teacher made famous by the hit documentary "Être et Avoir".
French: Reprints. Price: £9.15
Lorne, A.	Le Petit Gaulliste	Thirteen-year old Gaullist Paul's peaceful existence in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises is suddenly disturbed when his mother uproots him to Oran in Algeria…
French: Reprints. Price: £8.55
Magnan, P.	Laure du bout du monde	The story of Laure, a country girl growing up in the French Alps.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.56
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.30
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.40
Mallet-Joris, F.	Portrait d'un enfant non-identifié	Seduction and intrigue in this historical novel set at the end of the 19th century. A penniless count is hiding a secret from his wife.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.85
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…
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
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.
French: Reprints. 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!
French: Reprints. Price: £7.30
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.
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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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £14.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.52
Michon, P.	La Grande Beune	The musings of a young teacher recently arrived in the Dordogne.
French: Reprints. Price: £3.20
Mille, R.	Le Goût des femmes laides	The sentimental education of a young man convinced that he is ugly.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.85
Moati, N.	Deux femmes à Paris	The wartime friendship between Maya, a Jewish woman and Maud, the mistress of a right wing activist. Recently made into a film.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.45
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.80
Modiano, P.	Un pedigree	Modiano relates his childhood and introduces the themes that run through his work.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.90
Moï, A.	Riz noir	Bestselling semi-autobiographical novel set during the Vietnam war.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
Moino, P.	Coup d'État	1851. The future Napoléon III rejects the Constitution and takes power declaring Republicans enemy number one….Paul Méthus must save his skin.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.40
Moix, Y	Partouz	In order to seduce a mystery woman, a man begins to frequent the swingers" clubs she favours.
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Moix, Y.	Panthéon	Recounts the childhood of the author who attempts to escape from his fate as a child martyr abused by his parents.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.25
Montana, C.	Carla on my mind	A tragi-comedy about a painful break up from the talented author of "Malabar trip".
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £12.85
Morgiève, R.	Un petit homme de dos	Thirty years after his father's suicide, the son tries to understand the strengths, weaknesses and passions of a man who was devastated by the death of the woman he loved.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.80
Morin, P.	Les Amants américains	A middle-aged man reflects on how his life might have been had his mother not abandoned him at birth.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £14.80
Musso, G.	Et apres…	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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.65
Musso, G.	Je reviens te chercher	BESTSELLER. Three characters on the edge of an abyss, whose destinies collide. A story of intense mystery and love in danger with an astounding ending.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.20
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.95
Musso, G.	Sauve-moi	Bestselling popular novel.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.65
Musso, G.	Seras-tu là?	Elliot thinks he sees a ghost at San Francisco airport…. Could it be he himself in thirty years time? Bestseller.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.10
Ndiaye, M	Mon Cœur à l'étroit	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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.30
Ndiaye, M.	Autoportrait en vert	Intimate illustrated novella by the prizewinning author of "Rosie Carpe".
French: Reprints. Price: £6.55
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.15
Némirovsky, I.	Chaleur du sang	BESTSELLER Recently discovered treasure following the success of "Suite française".
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.45
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.15
Némirovsky, I.	La Maître des âmes	A doctor agrees to perform a clandestine abortion in 1920's Nice.
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Némirovsky, I.	Les Vierges et autres nouvelles	Eleven short stories from Irène Némirovsky, most written during the Nazi occupation of France, and the last book to be published before she died at Auschwitz in 1942.
French: Reprints. Price: £20.35
Nimier, M.	La reine du silence	Winner of the Prix Médicis 2004. A daughter's homage to a father she hardly knew.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
Nimier, M.	Vous dansez?	A collection of texts commissionned by a dance company on the theme of the dancer.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.25
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Nothomb, A.	Acide sulfurique	Novel about cruelty and voyeurism. A TV reality show requires candidates to live in a reconstructed concentration camp.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.75
Nothomb, A.	Biographie de la faim	Biographical novel based on the author's itinerant childhood.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.40
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…
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.45
Nourissier, F.	La Maison Mélancolie	Chronicle of visits made to houses by the author posing as a potential home buyer!
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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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £21.50
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.65
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.85
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.30
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.75
Ovaldé, V.	Les Hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup	Romantic novel exploring themes of desire and dependence.
French: Reprints. Price: £3.80
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.
French: Reprints. 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?
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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!
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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.
French: Reprints. 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."
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.40
Péju, P.	Le Rire de l'ogre	Holidaymakers Clara and Paul uncover war wounds in the Bavarian countryside.
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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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
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".
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £12.85
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.
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Picouly, D.	Le Cœur à la craie	Part "Petit Nicolas" part "Les Choristes" ('The Chorus'), here are the adventures and misadventures of an excitable nine year-old!
French: Reprints. Price: £5.25
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.40
Pliskin, F.	L'Agent dormant	Bus driver Mohammed feels ostracised and humiliated until he meets a man who will become his guru.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.55
Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P.	Courriers de nuit: La legende de Mermoz et de Saint-Exupéry	Adventures in early twentieth century aviation.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.75
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Poivre d'Arvor, P.	Mort de Don Juan	Victor Parker, a ladies" man with little time left to live, wonders whether he has ever existed outside other peoples" eyes? Obsessed by the figure of Byron, he embarks on a quest for self discovery….
French: Reprints. Price: £6.65
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.
French: Reprints. 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
French: Reprints. Price: £5.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.90
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.95
Pulvar, A.	L'Enfant-bois	Eva returns to Martinique after a long exile. Painful memories are rekindled.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.10
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Quignard, P	Villa Amalia	On discovering her husband's infidelity, middle-aged Anne decides to start a new life.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
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".
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Quignard, P.	Sordidissimes: Dernier royaume 5	From the former Prix Goncourt winner. This text forms a dyptch with "Paradisiaques". Poetic and philosophical.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.30
Rambaud, P.	Le Chat botté	An excellent historical novel with humour about the ascension of a man after the fall of Robespierre - Bonaparte.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.95
Rey, N.	Courir à trente ans	Four men are nostalgic about their lost youth. Prizewinning young author.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.30
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.95
Reza, Y.	Dans la luge d'Arthur Shopenhauer	Four characters take turns to take the stage - a philosophy professor, his wife, their psychiatrist and a friend….
French: Reprints. Price: £5.45
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".
French: Reprints. Price: £5.60
Rheims, N.	Le Cercle de Megiddo	A Kabbalist thriller.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.25
Rheims, N.	Le rêve de Balthus	A glimpse of an enigmatic painting prompts an emancipatory trip to Venice.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.00
Riou, J-M.	Le Secret de Champollion	Historical novel.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.85
Robbe-Grillet, C.	Jeune mariée: Journal 1957-1962	The intriguing diaries of the very young wife of Nouveau Roman author Alain Robbe-Grillet.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.85
Rohmer, E	La maison d'Elisabeth	Reprint of the novel by film maker Éric Rohmer, first published in 1948 under a pseudonym. Includes an interview with the author.
French: Reprints. Price: £16.75
Rolin, J.	Terminal Frigo	A man embarks on a journey round France via ports including Marseille, Calais and Saint-Nazaire.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.90
Rolin, O.	Suite à l'hôtel Crystal	Short stories set in hotel rooms.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.45
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.40
Roubaudi, L.	Le 18	Humorous and touching novel about firemen!
French: Reprints. Price: £4.15
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."
French: Reprints. Price: £12.15
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.30
Sa, S.	Les conspirateurs	A CIA agent is tracking a former Tiananmen Square heroine now living in Paris.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.35
Saint-Bris, G.	Les vieillards de Brighton
French: Reprints. Price: £8.95
Sallenave, D.	La Fraga	New England governess Mary Gordon finds emancipation in nineteenth century Venice.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.70
Sallenave, D.	Un printemps froid	A collection of short stories.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.75
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…
French: Reprints. Price: £6.56
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.20
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.05
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Schmitt, E.-E.	L'évangile selon Pilate	A personal view of the mystery of the resurrection, in the form of a novel.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.10
Schmitt, E.-E.	Théâtre 1: la nuit de Valognes; le visiteur; le bâillon; l'école du diable
French: Reprints. Price: £8.20
Schneck, C.	Sa petite chérie	A tender and bitter novel about the madness of being loved.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.10
Schneider, M.	Marilyn dernières séances	PRIZEWINNER A portrait of the star and her shrink who was unable to save her in her final days.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.60
Signol, C.	La Grande Île	Family strife in the Dordogne.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.15
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.60
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.55
Simenon, G.	Les Clients d'Avrenos	Set in Turkey. What links teenager Nouchi with alleged diplomat de Jonsac?
French: Reprints. Price: £6.95
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.35
Simenon, G.	Malempin	The illness of his son triggers a father's childhood memory of events he has surpressed.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.95
Sorman, J	Boys, boys, boys	A fun feminist novel.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £11.85
Subiela, M.	Le sang des Hauteville, 1: Les Chevaliers de proie	Historical saga set around the year 1060 with the Norman Knights in Sicily.
French: Reprints. Price: £12.90
Sulitzer, P-L.	L'Empire du dragon	Kidnapping and espionnage in the powerful Chinese industrial world. Thriller.
French: Reprints. 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!
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.55
Tchoungui, E.	Je vous souhaite la pluie	Camerounian Ngazan leaves Africa for Paris and finds it hard to adapt to her new life.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.35
Testud, S.	Le ciel t'aidera	Heart warming novel about a girl with too much imagination.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.30
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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £6.00
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.50
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.60
Tong Cuong, V.	Ferdinand et les iconoclastes	The rise and rise of Ferdinand, handsome, intelligent and successful…
French: Reprints. Price: £5.30
Tong Cuong, V.	Où je suis	Agnès is a man-hunter. Her aim is to take revenge on the entire male species.
French: Reprints. Price: £4.30
Toussaint, J-P	L'appareil-photo	A burlesque novel originally published in 1988. This reprint includes an recent interview with the author.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.70
Tremblay, M.	La Nuit de princes charmants	Set in the bars of Montréal, Jean-Marc is on a quest to lose his virginity.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.80
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.95
Trouillot, L.	Bicentenaire	Student demonstrations disrupt bicentenary celebrations of the independence of Haïti in 2004.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.65
Troyat, H.	La Fiancée de l'ogre	Inspired by Napoleon's real life "eternal fiancée', the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.20
van Cauwelaert, D.	L'Évangile de Jimmy	A swimming pool repair man in Connecticut is mistaken for Jesus Christ.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.40
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.80
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.50
Various	3 nouvelles comiques	Three funny short stories with annotations — "Un drame bien parisien', "Héloïse" and " Pour préparer un œuf dur". Student's edition.
French: Reprints. Price: £3.40
Various	Trois nouvelles noires	Three crime novellas with commentary and notes.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.75
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.
French: Reprints. 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…
French: Reprints. Price: £9.80
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.30
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."
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. 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.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.35
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £7.50
Weisberger, L	People or not people	Translation of "Everyone Worth Knowing". Author of the hit "The Devil Wears Prada".
French: Reprints. Price: £11.20
Werber, B.	Le Mystère des dieux	BESTSELLER. Final book in the trilogy 'Nous, les dieux'.
French: Reprints. Price: £10.95
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."
French: Reprints. Price: £9.15
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £17.45
Weyergans, F	Trois jours chez ma mère	Finally available in reprint, the 2005 Goncourt winner is a real gem.
French: Reprints. Price: £9.80
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £5.35
Winckler, M.	Les Trois médecins	Follow-up to the bestselling doctor series "La Maladie de Sachs" and "La Vacation', featuring protagonist Bruno Sachs.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
Zeller, F.	La Fascination du pire	Prix Interallié 2004. A young writer fascinated by Flaubert is invited to a conference in Egypt.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.60
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.
French: Reprints. Price: £8.65

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