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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
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| Various | 1,2,3… le bonheur en littérature | Short stories about happiness from Voltaire, Gide and many others. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £2.90 | ||
| Abécassis, A. | Toubib or not toubib | A woman with a succesful career as a GP as well as a loving family suffers a sudden loss of self-esteem and goes to a psychologist, who refers her to a hypnotherapist. But the hypnotherapy doesn't go as planned and she ends up with super powers! |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Abécassis, E. | Un heureux événement | Taboo breaking novel about the disintegration of a couple after the arrival of their first child. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Adam, O. | À l'ouest | From the much talked about author of "Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas', a sensitive novel about the fragility of family life. Marie lives in the suburbs with her two children. Her job is dull and she worries about the childrens" behaviour. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.55 | ||
| Adam, O. | Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas | Adam's beautiful story of a troubled young girl's search for her brother was recently made into successful film. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Ap. J.-C. | Grand prix du roman de l'Acadamie Française 2007. Set in modern Athens, 89-year-old Nausicaa asks her young lodger to visit a famous monastery on Mount Athos, forbidden to women, where he discovers a monastic community rich in history and influence. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.50 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Je t'oublierai tous les jours | |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Alexis, I. | Dès le premier soir | After so many parties, boyfriends and adventures, Elise and Delphine make a pact to have normal love lives and search for the perfect relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Alexis, I. | Tous à mes pieds | A cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones, Patricia is a young Parisian journalist looking for romance. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Amette, J.-P. | Un été chez Voltaire | In the summer of 1761, at the Ferney residence, Voltaire receives two Italian comedians who have come to rehearse "Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet", a strongly criticised play he wrote twenty years earlier. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Ancion, N. | Nous sommes tous des playmobiles | Collection of stories filled with observations on the banality of life and characters which we can all relate to. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Angot, C. | Les Désaxés | Relationship problems for François and Sylvie. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Angot, C. | Le marché des amants | A love story between a black man and a white woman. An autobiographical novel about love, prejudice and modern French society. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Appanah, N. | Le dernier frère | BESTSELLER. 1940. Nine year old Raj lives on the island of Mauritius. David boards the 'Atlantic' with a cohort of exiled Jews. Impatient to escape from the gravity of their destinies and the violence of their universe, they flee. Prizewinner. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.40 | ||
| Arditi, M. | La fille des Louganis | Pavlina falls in love with a boy she believes to be her cousin. But she and Aris have the same father and their affair destroys the family. Years later Pavlina returns to the island to search for her child who she was forced to give up for adoption. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.20 | ||
| Arditi, M. | L'imprévisible | A woman has just separated from her husband and asks a history of art professor for a valuation of a painting which she wants to get rid of. Everything is against them but their attraction is immediate. Subtle and elegantly written. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Donnant donnant | A young French woman leaves for Los Angeles to seek her fortune and marries a film director. However, a few years later, she discovers that she has fallen into a trap… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.60 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Malins plaisirs | Two men return to France after immigrating to Australia for 30 years. One is determined to take revenge on his family who treated him as a good for nothing. Fast-paced and exciting novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.45 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Assouline, P. | Le Portrait | The portrait of Baroness Betty de Rothschild has hung in the most prestigious houses in Paris from the time of Napoleon III through the Occupation to the present day. Assouline imagines what if a portrait could speak…? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Assouline, P. | Rosebud | Deciding to give importance to what is unpredictable in lives, Assouline chooses to draw out from the lives of people such as Picasso and Rudyard Kipling, the uncontrollable element which secretly gives rise to them. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Audeguy, S. | Fils unique | A sophisticated biography of the older brother of Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Winner of the prix des Deux-Magots 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Audeguy, S. | La théorie des nuages | Akira Kumo, a Japanese fashion designer employs a librarian to classify their enormous meteorological library and to research a cloud-watcher and theorist Richard Abercrombie… A prizewinning gem of novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Audouard, A. | Un pont d'oiseaux | A beautiful book set in the 1940s about the human race as a man becomes a correspondant of French troops in Indochina and feels the same repulsion for French colonialism as Vietnamese communisim. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.35 | ||
| Aulnoy, Madame d' | Contes de fées | A collection of magical fairy tales from the seventeenth century. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Banier, F.-M. | Les femmes du métro Pompe | A young man living in the 16th arrondissement of Paris falls in love with a Spanish immigrant a frequenter of the "Rue de la Pompe" metro. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Barbéris, D. | Quelque chose à cacher | A young woman is murdered in a small Loire village after visting her family. The narrator, the gardener at the local museum, befriends one of the detectives. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Barbery, M. | L'élégance du hérisson | BESTSELLER. A beautiful novel about life in an old Parisian building; narrated alternatively by the philosophical fifty-four year old concierge Renée and twelve year old suicidal child genius Paloma. Winner of Prix des Libraires 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Barbery, M. | Une gourmandise | |
| Reprints. Published 2000. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Barillé, É. | Singes | Marion goes to India with a mission. She meets some strange characters along the way. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Barrière, M. | Souper mortel aux étuves: Roman noir et gastronomique à Paris au Moyen Age | A historical novel set in the court of Charles VI. Accompanied by a collection of medieval recipes. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.60 | ||
| Bauchau, H. | Le boulevard périphérique | Set in Paris in 1980. Whilst accompagning his daughter-in-law on her numerous hospital visits to fight cancer, the narrator remembers his childhood friend who joined the French Resistance and died in suspicious circumstances. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.60 | ||
| Begag, A. | Le marteau pique-coeur | |
| Reprints. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Begag, A. | Le passeport | From the author of the celebrated "Gone du Chaâba" and current Minister for Equal Opportunities. Zoubir El Mouss is an ex-policeman the troubled city of Alger…. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Bégaudeau, F. | Entre les murs | A fly-on-the-wall look at a French school. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Bégaudeau, F. | Jouer juste | An excellent first novel in which the author mixes the subjects of football and love. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Beigbeder, F. | Au secours pardon | Recounts the adventures of Octave, the hero of "99 francs", as he embarks on his new dream job in Moscow — to find the most beautiful women in the world. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Belhaj Kacem, M. | L'essence n de l'amour | The secret n is the internal motor of love, never discovered but which we try our hardest to find. In a fiction-essay Mehdi Belhaj Kacem provides us with a painful but brilliant analysis of loving relationships, transferable to anyone. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £5.55 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Bello, A. | Les Falsificateurs | A breathtaking, paranoiac thriller about a secret international organisation, the CFR, which falsifies reality. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.45 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Partir | A group of friends meet regularly on a seafront café in Tangiers. They dream of going to Spain, a country they can just see in the distance…. Prix Ulysse 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Sur ma mère | Written from fragments of memories, family stories, and conversations with his mother during her battle with Alzheimers, Ben Jelloun recounts the tale of his mother's life growing up in the old medina in 1930s and 1940s Fes. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Benacquista, T. | Malavita | An American family move in to a sleepy Norman village. A piece of advice…move out now! |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Benamou, G.-M. | Le fantôme de Munich | Summer 1968. A young American journalist of Czech origin wishes to uncover the mysteries of the Munich agreement and leaves for France to find Edouard Daladier, the last survivor of 29th September 1938. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Benzoni, J. | Les Larmes de Marie-Antoinette | The misadventures of antiques dealer Aldo Moroni, who becomes entangled in a series of murders following the loan of jewels belonging to Queen Marie-Antoinette. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Bern, S. | Plus belle sera la vie | Set in the 19th Century, a French 'Pygmalion'. François Blanc is a wealthy widower who marries the much younger and beautiful Marie. When François dies, Marie is left with a huge fortune, which combined with her charm and beauty make her a very powerful woman. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Berthelot, F | Hadès Palace | Science fiction. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Besson, B. | Le secret de l'Imam bleu | A "blasphemous" writer is assassinated and a phonecall is traced to a known terrorist. Who is the mysterious "Blue Iman'? |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Besson, P | La paresseuse | A French boy meets a mesmerising English girl, Cynthia, in 1970's England. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Besson, P. | Accessible à une certaine mélancolie | Portrait of a war reporter with a complicated love life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Besson, P. | Encore que | Pocket-sized collection of aphorisms and other thoughts. |
| Reprints. Published 2004. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Besson, P. | La trahison de Thomas Spencer | Paul Bruder and Thomas Spencer are born on the same day. Growing up in 1950s Mississippi they become inseparable friends until they meet the dangerous and free Claire MacMullen. In the troubled era of the 1960s, their friendship is torn apart. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Bey, M. | Bleu blanc vert | Algeria 1962. When red ink is banned at school for symbolizing the colonial past, corrections to school work are made in green. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Bey, M. | Sous le jasmin de la nuit | Eleven short stories from Algeria with women protagonists. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.90 | ||
| 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.40 | ||
| Billetdoux, M. | C'est fou, une fille… | Prix Anna de Noailles de l'Académie française 2008. Billetdoux writes about desire, love and obsession. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.25 | ||
| Billetdoux, M. | Un peu de désir sinon je meurs | The first novel written under the name of Marie Billetdoux, who formerly wrote as Raphaële but changed her name after the trauma of the death of the man she loved. Here she expresses the difficulty of living, and of writing, without him. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Bizot, F. | Le Saut du Varan | After the coup in Phnom Penh, April 1970, a French diplomat encounters a young Cambodian thief who he takes with him by force. Five months later, her body is found. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Blas de Roblès, J.-M. | Là où les tigres sont chez eux | PRIX MEDICIS 2008. A news correspondant in north-east Brazil receives a manuscript retracing the biography of a famous Jesuit in the baroque era. He investigates and crosses paths with numerous unforgettable characters. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £13.65 | ||
| Bohringe, R. | C'est beau une ville la nuit/Blues | Autobiographical musings of actor Bohringer recently made into a film. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Boissard, J. | La Chaloupe 2. L'Aventurine | Second volume in the "Chaloupe" saga and follow-up to "Le talisman". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Bordage, P. | Orchéron | Science fiction. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Boulouque, C. | Chasse à courre | A novel about power and headhunting from up and coming young writer Boulouque. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Avant les hommes | The story of a tempestuous summer spent by an adolescent boy consumed by his desires for another man. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Le Bal des Murènes | A novel about the tumultuous relationship between a mother and daughter haunted by their past. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Mes mauvaises pensées | Prix Renaudot 2005. A confessional novel relating the weekly meetings between a patient and her analyst. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Bourdin, F. | Les vendanges de juillet | Classic family saga. A prestigious middle-class family adopted their youngest son thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.55 | ||
| Bourdouxhe, M. | Les jours de la femme Louise, et autres nouvelles | Seven stories and seven women for whom violence is a part of their daily lives. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Boysson, E. de. | Les grandes bourgeoises | A revealing book about the French bourgeois milieu sees six women desperate to preserve their comfort and lifestyle…. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Bragance, A. | Danseuse en rouge | A dancer and an ex-tennis champion find themselves faced with the latter's jealous wife. Three monologues unravel the story of this trio. A powerful, graceful piece of writing. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Brassens, G. | La tour des miracles | A novel written by popular French musician Georges Brassens. Set in Montmartre, the seventh floor of the 'tour des miracles' is inhabited by a set of weird and wonderful charcters. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £4.65 | ||
| Braudeau, M. | Retour à Miranda | A patient is being treated for memory loss. A pharmaceutical company is interested in magic Amazonian plants. Are the two linked? |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Bredin, J.-D. | Trop bien élevé | A childhood memoir describing the life of an middle class family in interwar France. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.25 | ||
| Brochet, A. | La fortune de l'homme | Six short stories in which the heroes are women. The first three stories examine themes of desire, joy and love, while the others centre on maternity and motherhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Bruckner, P. | Mon petit mari | The comic story of Leon and Solange, a short man married to a much taller wife. At the birth of each of their children Leon shrinks even more, as does his authority. Mon Petit Mari is a tender fable on modern society, marriage and the family. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Brussolo, S | La nuit du bombardier | Science fiction from this bestselling and versatile author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | Ceux qui dorment en ces murs | A lawless settlement on the banks of the Amazon justify their crimes with their own bizarre customs. Accidents, mutiliations and murder follows. Thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | La Fenêtre jaune | Thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.85 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | Sécurité absolue | Thriller set in California. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Buron, N. de | Où sont mes lunettes? | A humorous novel about growing old. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Calandon, S. | Une promesse | Winner of the prix Médicis, this is a delicate novel about the power of fraternity and the passing of time. Seven friends visit the home of a dead couple as if they were still alive, keeping a promise to save them from the death of forgetfulness. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| La Callet, B. | Une pièce montée | The disintegration of a wedding ceremony! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.90 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 1997. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Carrère, E. | Un roman russe | The author leads an investigation into the disappearance of a Hungarian soldier in 1944, found 56 years later in a Russian psychiatric hospital in Kotelnitch. A dense and captivating autobiographical work. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Castillon, C. | Insecte | Nineteen short stories on the subject of mother-daughter relationships. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Cathrine, A. | Sweet home | A family bound together by silence. One by one each member takes their turn to speak out. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Cauvin, P. | Belange | Adrien discovers a squatter is inhabiting his weekend country retreat during the rest of the week! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.80 | ||
| Cauvin, P. | Venge-moi! | A son cannot deny his mother her dying wish: to avenge her. He is plunged into a dreadful past, and the heavy atmopshere of this psychologically suspenseful novel leads the reader to an unexpected dénouement. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Cauwelaert, D. | Attirances | Three novellas on a paranormal theme. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chalandon, S. | Mon traître | Antoine, a Parisian musician, travels to Ireland to follow his passion for stringed instruments. In Belfast he becomes aware of the war ravaging the country and becomes engaged in Irish politics. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Chamoiseau, P. | Un dimanche au cachot | One rainy Sunday a young girl shelters under a stone vault and refuses to leave. Writer and teacher Patrick Chamoiseau is called to help her and realising that the vault hides the remnants of an old dungeon, he tells her its history of slavery. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | L'Allée du Roi | The fictional memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | Couleur du temps | Portrait of a fictional painter. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chandernagor, F. | La voyageuse de nuit | Poignant and honest, this is a novel about a sick mother and her four daughters. Before dying, their mother cuts off all communication and refuses to speak. Confronted with her silence, they ponder her personality, feelings and relationships. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | Le Charme des liaisons | Three couples, three stories about love and hate. This is a novel full of emotion and charm by a writer who proves her independence and integrity time and time again. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | Un oncle à héritage | Elderly Baron Robien de Condignac has nobody to leave his estate to. How will he find a solution to this inheritance problem? By best selling popular author Chapsal. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Chapuis, B. | La Vie parlée | Six characters describe a mystery person… Prix Roger Nimier 2005. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Chattam, M. | Les arcanes du chaos | An exciting modern day thriller written around the attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11th. Yael's life descends into a nightmare, violence and confusion as strange messages appear and shadows loom in mirrors… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.25 | ||
| Chaudière, F. | Tribulations d'une stradivarius en Amérique | 28th February 1936. A soloist gives a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. Out of the two violins which he brings with him, he chooses the stradivarius but it vanishes into thin air…An original novel from a talented writer and instrument-maker. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.20 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Chessex, J. | Avant le matin | In 1980 Professor Joseph d'Avry meets Aloysia Pia Canisia Piller, an abbess with secret loves. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Chessex, J. | Le Vampire de Ropraz | Set in 1903 in Ropraz, the daughter of a judge dies of meningitis. Her corpse is violated and mutilated. Fear spreads as two other bodies are found violated in the same way. Based on a true story. By the winner of the prix Goncourt for "L'Ogre." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.20 | ||
| Chraïbi, D. | L'Homme qui venait du passé | When a body is discovered in a well in Morocco, clues lead to a conspiracy involving France, America and Afghanistan. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Claudel, P | La petite fille de Monsieur Linh | The story of refugee Monsieur Linh. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Les Âmes grises | Bestseller. Award-winning powerful novel about a provincial French town experiencing the horrors of war. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Claudel, P. | Le Café de l'Excelsior | A childhood spent in grandfather's café. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.60 | ||
| Clément, C. | Les derniers jours de la déesse | After the death of 80 year old Amma in India, witnesses and close friends recount how she founded an ashram and became a goddess. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Clément, C. | Le Sang du monde | Follow-up to Clément's bestselling novel "Le Sang du monde". |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.65 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £7.25 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Coatalem, J. | Il faut se quitter déjà | Set in Buenos Aires, a middle-aged reporter invents a new life for himself in order to seduce the young and beautiful Mathilde. Pretending to be in South America to research the last city of the Incas, he begins to lose himself in his own lies. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Cohen, J.-M. | Le roman des régimes | The clinic of the charming Mathieu Sorin, specialist in nutritional disorders, brings together people from all walks of life who, with his help, attempt to reconcile their troubled relationships with food and themselves. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Colin, F. | Le Syndrome Godzilla | Teenager Daniel has never recovered from the dramatic and sudden death of his mother several years ago in Tokyo. He creates an imaginary friend called Godzilla. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.55 | ||
| Combet, F. | SchrummSchrumm ou l'excursion dominicale aux sables mouvants. | Reprint of this unusual text which originally appeared in 1966. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £18.90 | ||
| Condé, M. | Les belles ténébreuses | Kassem is born in Lille to a Guadelopean father and a Romanian mother and grows up between two identities. One day he meets Dr Ramzi, an enigmatic and charming doctor, who begins to exercise a strange fascination over Kassem. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Condé, M. | Victoire, les saveurs et les mots | Maryse Condé paints an engaging portrait about her grandmother Victoire Élodie Quidal who was a cook for Anne-Marie and Boniface Walberg and whose talents were greatly appreciated by Guadaloupian society. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.75 | ||
| Confiant, R. | 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Covin, A | États primitifs | Horror. Second novel focusing on the sects in America. The author has been compared to Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Camarades de classe | The narrator, Dominique, starts a correspondance with one of her husband's old classmates. She uncovers contradicting versions of her husband's past, the legacy of May 1968, and an enigmatic class photo. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.60 | ||
| 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £13.70 | ||
| Dantec, M.G. | Grande Jonction | 2070. The human race is in danger and is slowly being destroyed by an attack on language. The only hope is in the arrival of a mass of books… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Darrieussecq, M. | Tom est mort | BESTSELLER. A French woman in exile in Australia writes of her four-year-old son, who died a decade before. From the surrealist author of the acclaimed 'Truismes'. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Dauven, J.-F. | Le manuscrit de Portosera la rouge | More than forty characters cross paths in this original and pulsating novel as the drinking water of Portosera is infected, killing all those who drink it. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Dauven, J.-F. | Le Soliste | Sequel to 'Le Manuscrit de Portosera le rouge'. The story of the inhabitants of 24, rue de la Capitainerie. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.70 | ||
| de Buron, N. | C'est fou ce qu'on voit de choses dans la vie | The author's memoirs of an unusual peripatetic adolescence. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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…. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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? |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Deghelt, F. | La vie d'une autre | A 25-year-old woman falls in love and after one night, wakes up twelve years later, married with children without any memory of the years which have passed. She embarks on a quest to find out what has happened. A refreshing novel, full of suspense. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £12.20 | ||
| Delaume, C. | J'habite dans la télévision | A fascinating book chronicling the author's study of the affect of advertising on the human brain. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Delepierre, P. | Les ch'tis bonheurs | Gil is a young boy destined for happiness but his idyllic childhood world begins to show cracks when certain people evoke the past years of the Occupation. A tremendous novel written in a playful style. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Delerm, P | La bulle de Tiepolo | Against a Venice backdrop, a man and a woman argue about a painting. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.15 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Le Bonheur: Tableux et bavardages | First published in 1986, a series of very readable short chapters on happiness. "I am happy. Will it last?" muses the author. Delerm is best known for the delightful "La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisire minuscules' |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.60 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Dickens, barbe à papa: et autres nourritures délectables | Eighteen short stories in which Delerm evokes his childhood memories, food and much-loved authors. Delectable! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Enregistrements pirates | More poetic snippets of everyday trivia from bestselling Delerm. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £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… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £3.80 | ||
| Deniau, J. F. | Le Grand Jeu | Third in a trilogy set in the diplomatic world. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Déon, M. | Cavalier, passe ton chemin! | Notes on the authors" travels in Ireland. Déon has also written on Greece. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Depestre, R. | L'œillet ensorcelé et autres nouvelles | Collection of short stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £2.75 | ||
| Desarthe, A. | Mangez-moi | Contrary to expectations, difficult character Myriam's new restaurant is a huge success! She begins to wonder if she might be a bit out of her depth. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Descosse, O. | La liste interdite | Thriller. Through two separate murder enquiries, one in the countryside, and one in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the reader is plunged into a murky world of junkies, hooligans and the French bourgeoisie. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.45 | ||
| Descosse, O. | L'ordre noir | A man is intent on taking revenge on his father who has always despised him and who has been involved in art dealings linked to a horrific ritual killing. A heart-stopping thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.75 | ||
| Despentes, V. | Bye bye Blondie | Despentes most powerful novel to date. Portrait of a women who doesn't know how to be happy. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Despentes, V. | King Kong théorie | The author of the notorious "Baise-moi" reflects on her personal itinerary and the unconventional choices she has made. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Despentes, V. | Mordre au travers | Collection of dark stories about women who are heroines in a world rampant with desire, excess love, violence and anger. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £3.95 | ||
| Diome, F. | Kétala | Second novel from the author of the very successful "Le Ventre de l'Atlantique". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Diwan, A. | La fabrication d'un mensonge | A young girl starts working in a wedding boutique after seeing a job advertisement in the window. She becomes caught up in a web of lies and embroiled in a secret community. First novel from a talented writer. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.45 | ||
| Diwo, J. | La chevauchée du Flamand | A fictionalised account of the life of the Flemish painter Pierre-Paul Rubens. Jean Diwo is the author of the hugely successful "Les Dames du Faubourg" saga. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Diwo, J. | Le jeune homme en culotte de golf | Tales of a young French journalist and his memories of all the people he met, including Salvador Dali, Marlène Dietrich and Marcel Aymé. A funny and touching portrait of a generation when anything seemed possible. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Diwo, J. | Moi, Milanollo, fils de Stradivarius | Exhilarating historical novel on a musical theme from bestselling author of "Les Violons du Roi". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Djavann, C. | Autoportrait de l'autre | The author takes up the story of a dying man, a former war photographer. A breathless account of his final hours, his head filled with memories of suffering; life and death coming face to face. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Djebar, A. | La Disparition de la langue française | 50 year-old Bekrane returns to Algeria after a twenty-year exile in France. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Djebar, A. | Ombre sultane | A story about two women written by one of the most important figures of 20th century francophone Maghrebian literature. Oscillating between hope and despair the novel is a reflection of the plight of Algerian women in the 1970s. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Djian, P. | Doggy bag: Saison 2 | A sort of French "Dallas" but funnier and more sophisticated! Second volume in the series. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Djian, P. | Doggy bag: Saison 1 | When a beautiful stranger enters the Sollens brothers" office a small earthquake errupts… The first in a series of four books. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Djian, P. | Frictions | Recounting thirty years of the life of a man, involving a possessive mother and an 11 year old child full of incomprehension about his parents who have separated. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Du Boucheron, B. | Chien des os | At the end of the 16th Century, Spain has conquered the Portuguese on the Atlantic Islands. The main island is dominated by the high plateau where the poor peasants live in conflict with the rich living by the port. Written with dazzling style. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Du Boucheron, B. | Court Serpent | Set in the 14th Century, a voyage of discovery aboard the ship "Le Court Serpent". Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française 2004. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Dubois, J.-P. | Les accommodements raisonnables | Paul Stern leaves France for Hollywood, hoping to forget about his depressed wife, the scandalous second marriage of his father, and his own failings. He meets Selma, the perfect double of his wife Anna, only thirty years younger. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.65 | ||
| 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." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Dubois, J.-P. | Vous aurez de mes nouvelles | |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.35 | ||
| 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £6.15 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £10.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.70 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.20 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.30 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| 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… |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.30 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.15 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Egloff, J. | L'homme que l'on prenait pour un autre | The life of an ordinary man is turned upside down as those around him suddenly begin mistaking him for other people. He becomes a gangster, a plumber, even a neighbour's husband as these cases of mistaken identity make his life increasingly unstable. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Eisenchteter, M. | Ne plus mourir, jamais | Isabelle wakes after 15 years in a coma to find her husband has married the young aupair, her daughter barely knows her, and her ecological trekking company has been turned into a multinational. Isabelle decides to take back her life. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Ernaux, A. | Les années | An autobiography from award-winning author Annie Ernaux, as she looks back on her life and French society since the end of the Second World War. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £8.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Fédorovsky, V. | Le Roman de Saint-Petersbourg | The greatest moments in the history of the city. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £19.45 | ||
| Fellag | L'allumeur de rêves berbères | In Alger in the 1990s, water is distributed twice a week from three to six o' clock in the morning. During this time, a famous journalist hides away and observes his neighbours, recounting dramatic and funny stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Fellous, C. | Aujourd'hui | Set in Tunis during the six day war of 1967. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.35 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.65 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.45 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.40 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Ferney, A. | Dans la guerre | Set in 1914. A dog is unable to wait for his master to return home from the front. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.40 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.15 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.45 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.45 | ||
| Foenkinos, D. | En cas de bonheur | Pertinent dissection of a modern couple. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.45 | ||
| Fontaine, B. | Nouvelles de l'exil | A reprint of the singer's book of anecdotes previously published in 1989. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £14.10 | ||
| Fontanel, S. | Fonelle est amoureuse | Fonelle is in love with a man who has no interest in her! Epistolary novel based on the character made famous in the pages of "Elle" magazine. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.30 | ||
| Fontanel, S. | Sublime amour | A love story between an American woman and an Italian man in his fifties who have been together for seven years. During this period, they left each other and crossed paths with numerous characters who will play a role in their love affair. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Forest, P. | Sarinagara | Moving between Paris and Tokyo, the lives of three influential Japanese figures — a poet, a novelist and a photographer. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.30 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Fottorino, E. | Korsakov | Prize winning novel about a man with Korsakov syndrome - or a very imaginative memory disorder…. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Fourier, C. | Métro Ciel (suivi de Vague conjugale) | Short stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.25 | ||
| Frébourg, O. | Un homme à la mer | Voyages made by sea plus impressions of cities such as Buenos Aires, Lisbon and many more… |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.90 | ||
| 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…. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Frégni, R. | Maudit le jour | A collection of dark, tender and humorous stories, oscillating between reality and fiction, recounting adventures taking place between Manosque and Marseille. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Gailly, C. | Les Évadés | Mistaken for his father, the young Jeremy Todd is attacked in broad daylight by a policeman determined on revenge. Another man, Theo Panol, intervenes and accidentally kills the police officer. Sentenced to thirty years solitary confinement, Theo's friends plot to help him escape. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Gallay, C. | Dans l'or du temps | A magnificent novel about two different worlds as the narrator spends the summer with his family in their Normandy home and meets an old woman living nearby. A homage to André Breton and exceptional meetings which stir the soul. A must-read. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.45 | ||
| Gallay, C. | Mon amour ma vie | Dan is the youngest of the six Pazzatis, a circus family. It has been years since they have done a show and now, each night around the fire, they remember the past. Dan is alone amongst five adults and wants to be loved, especially by his mother. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £11.15 | ||
| Gallay, C. | L'office des vivants | A strange family living in isolation and destitution in a mountain hamlet are shaken by the arrival of a young girl carrying the father's baby. A beautiful and compassionate debut novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.10 | ||
| Gallo, M. | La croix de l'occident, 2: Paris vaut bien une messe | The second part of the historical novel based in medieval France. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Fanatiques | The daughter of a history teacher at the Sorbonne decides to convert to Islam after her marriage. One day in October, her father is assassinated…A lucid and emotional novel which unveils the issue of the Islamisation of France. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Gallo, M. | 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? |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £8.70 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains: Volume 4: Marc Aurèle, le martre des chrétiens | Fourth book in Gallo's series about life in Rome under the emperor Nero. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 1: Spartacus, la révolte des esclaves | First in the series of five novels about the Romans in which the story of Spartacus is re-told. A real page-turner. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.75 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 2: Neron, le règne de l'Antéchrist | Second book in the series about life in Rome under the emperor Nero, recounting the legend's monstrosities. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 3: Titus, le martyre des juifs | Third volume from Max Gallo about the history of Rome. In this book, he tells the story of Serenus who recalls the reign of Titus during the war in Jerusalem. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Gallo, M. | Les Romains, 5: Constantin le Grand: L'Empire du Christ | The final book in Gallo's series on the history of the Roman empire. Here, he retraces the ascension of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.70 | ||
| Garat, A.-M. | Chambre noire | A woman finds strange photos in her companion's house taken by a young man from the war in 1914. Little by little, she uncovers the secrets and true confessions of the family. An intriguing, beautiful novel by winner of the Prix Femina in 1992. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Garcin, C. | L'embarquement | Thomas is a natural born wanderer. His latest trip - five countries in six days! |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Garcin, C. | Vidas: Vies volées | Chapters exploring the unusual lives of historic personalities such as Catulus, Maria Magdalen, Agrippa d'Aubigné and Emily Dickinson. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Garcin, J. | Cavalier seul: Journal équestre | The third in an equestrian trilogy. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Gardel, L. | La Baie d'Alger | PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2008. 1955; the narrator is 15, lives in Algiers with his grandmother after the departure of his parents for the continent, and decolonisation is only a distant rumour. Then events begin signalling the destruction of his world. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Dans la nuit Mozambique | Collection of four stories about madness, despair and savagery. Highly recommended from a prize-winning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Eldorado | Two Sudanese brothers prepare to embark on a perilous journey to reach Europe as clandestine immigrants. Meanwhile, Commander Piracci keeps watch over the Italian coastline…. Prizewinning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Le Soleil des Scorta | Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2004. An epic novel spanning several generations of the Italian Scorta family. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Gaudé, L. | Le Soleil des Scorta | Goncourt winning novel from the author of bestselling "La mort du roi Tsongor". The story of an Italian clan. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Gavalda, A. | Ensemble, c'est tout | A feel-good story centering on four very different characters…uplifting and fun! Recently made into a popular film with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £11.45 | ||
| Germain, S. | Magnus | Franz-Georg is amnesiac and has to relearn his German identity. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2005. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Ghata, Y. | Le Târ de mon père | The Tar of the title is an Iranian lute. On the death of his father, Hossein inherits this instrument but in his hands, it refuses to cooperate. He takes it to the best lute player in the country and never returns from his journey. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Giesbert, F.-O. | La souille | Jésus lives on a farm in Normandy and has a strange power: he understands everything about life, whether it be the animal kingdom or the passion of humans. But is he prepared to help the police after a murder? Winner of the Prix Interallié 1995. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £4.70 | ||
| Goby, V. | L'échappée | This tragic and powerful novel follows the destiny of a young Breton woman who falls in love with a German pianist during the Occupation. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Goby, V. | Qui touche à mon corps je le tue | In 1943 Marie performed an abortion on Lucie. She is condemned to death, and awaits the guillotine in her prison cell, while Lucie reflects on the abortion and its consequences. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Godard, A | L'Inconsolable | Winner of the Grand Prix RTL in 2006, Godard writes honestly and delicately about the premature death of a child. Without question, a pivotal and remarkable novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Goetz, A. | Intrigue à l'anglaise | This comedy mixes humour, art and politics, evoking real characters such as Princess Diana and historical facts. From the previous winner of the Prix des Deux Magots and the prix Roger Nimier. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Goffette, G | Une enfance lingère | Lingerie themed childhood memories! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Gorz, A. | Lettre à D.: Histoire d'un amour | BESTSELLER. Known existentialist philosopher and writer relives the love story of fifty-eight years that he shared with his wife Dorine. This poignant memoir in the form of a letter was published the year after they committed suicide together. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Goscinny, A. | Le père éternel | Sophie was ten when her father died. Now older, she returns to his grave in Nice every year to lay flowers. There she befriends Max, the old guardian of the cemetery, who is haunted by the disappearance of a young girl during the war. A touching novel about grief, loss and friendship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Grainville, P. | La main blessée | A writer's hand becomes paralysed but the presence of a sensual Egyptian woman soothes his feelings of anxiety, doubt and fear. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Grangé, J.-C. | La Ligne noire | Reverdi is a serial killer recently captured in Malaysia. Hot on his trail is journalist Dupeyrat… Bestselling thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Grimbert, P. | Un secret | Bestselling prize-winning novel, recently made into a film starring Patrick Bruel and Julie Depardieu. Set in post-war France, this is the story of a family haunted by the secrets of their past. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Gros, J.-L. | Le Tibétain | A thrilling novel oscillating between reality and fiction and sport and politics. Full of great emotion and suspense right to the very end of the story, the reader is taken on a journey between China and Tibet, a descent into the Olympic world… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Groult, B. | La Touche étoile | A novel dealing with the theme of destiny. Three women, Moïra, Marion and Alice, are all confronted by it. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Guedj, D. | Le théorème du perroquet | Monsieur Ruche must delve into the history of mathematics to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance. |
| Reprints. Published 2000. Price: £9.25 | ||
| Guène, F. | Du rêve pour les oufs | A young Algerian woman struggles with all sorts of problems but this does not stop her from finding amusement in the people who cross paths with her. From the bestselling author of "Kiffe kiffe demain." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Guène, F. | Kiffe kiffe demain | Bestseller. Humorous novel about a girl who lives alone with her mother in a troubled Parisian suburb. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £6.90 | ||
| Haddad, H. | Palestine | An Israeli military patrol is attacked by a group of Palestinians, and one soldier injured in the blast is taken hostage. Wounded, and having completely lost his memory, the young Israeli solider is taken in and cared for by two Palestinians. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.60 | ||
| Haenel, Y. | Cercle | Winner of the Prix Décembre 2007 and the Prix Nimier 2008. One day a man decides not to go to work, instead beginning a series of journeys starting in the streets of Paris. A mesmerising read. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Harpman, J. | Du côté d'Ostende | In Brussels, an elderly man reflects on an unfulfilled life. His only friend is leaves some notebooks which send him deeper in to his own memories. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Hatzfeld, J. | La stratégie des antilopes | In this book, Hatzfeld recounts the development of Rwanda since 2003, in particular on the cohabitation between the genocide victims and their former executioners. Winner of the Prix Médicis 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.90 | ||
| Hausser, I. | Le passage des ombres | Three characters — a magistrate, a historian and a doctor — try to overcome their grief after a series of murders takes place in their town. Winner of the Prix Vivre Plus 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.90 | ||
| Henry, F. | La rêve de Martin | The letter of a dead mother to her son in which she reveals the reasons behind her separation from him when he was twelve years old. A powerful and emotional novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Hermary-Vieille, C. | Le Gardien du phare | Three ladies, all with weighty secrets, are shipwrecked on a savage island with a lighthouse keeper who never shows himself. They watch out for, feel and fear his presence, without being sure that he even exists. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.60 | ||
| Houellebecq, M. | La Possibilité d'une île | Prix Interallié 2005. Houellebecq's science fiction novel about sects, eternel life and cloning. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Hutin, P. | La prisonnière du Tibet | Thomas Fayette travels to Tibet in search of Gandhali, a young women whom he suspects was implicated in the car crash that killed his family. He is plunged into a violent world of Tibetan nationalism, of which Gandhali herself is also a victim. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Huy, M.T. | La princesse et le pêcheur | Lam has never visited the country of her parents until she falls in love with a Vietnamese man. On a visit to Vietnam she discovers the effects of war and totalitarianism. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.20 | ||
| Israël, B. | Pop Heart | Three children of the eighties, now thirty something and still living at home and for whom English pop music is something of a religion narrate this novel. Described as "'Jules et Jim' with electric guitars". |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Jabès, S. | Clitomotrice | The adventures of Clémentine and her clitoris! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.45 | ||
| Jacques, P. | Rachel-Rose et l'officier arabe | A psychological thriller set in 1950's Cairo. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Jamet, N., & Le Pezennec, M.-A. | Les oubliés de Killmore | Marie leaves her native island of Land'sen and takes off for Killmore. While she celebrates her marriage with Lucas, her cousin is found murdered and a series of ritual murders ensue in mysterious circumstances… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Janicot, S. | Tu n'es pas seul(e) à être seul(e) | In the heart of a Parisian bourgeois block of flats, the inhabitants live side by side without really knowing each other. Real dramas, small sorrows, love and jealousy are all mixed up in this microcosm of human behaviour. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Japp, A.H. | Monestarium | A gripping historical thriller. A woman is found strangled in a nunnery in 14th Century France, undoutedly because of her striking resemblance to her sister. The murders don't stop there. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Jardin, A. | Les Coloriés | In 2003 Hippolyte Le Play discovered the world of "Les Coloriés', a world without adults where games, emotions and desires rule. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Jardin, A. | Le Roman des Jardin | The author, better known for his bitter sweet romantic comedies, reveals a darker side through this memoir of his eccentric family — the Jardins. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Jauffre, R. | Asiles de fous | Pris Femina 2005. Ordinary madness in an ordinary family. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | L'enfance est un rêve d'enfant | A story from Jauffret's childhood. With his friends, Gabriel and Corentin, he embarked on a journey through France to look for their hero the General de Gaulle. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | Microfictions | PRIZEWINNER 500 tragi-comedy stories in which the narrators tell of their loves, crimes, cowardice, moments of happiness and much more. Winner of the Prix du livre France Culture-Télérama 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Jaworski, J.-P. | Janua vera | PRIX DU CAFARD COSMIQUE 2008. Science-fiction combining fantasy and a cold stab of reality. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.95 | ||
| Jean, R. | Un Fantasme de Bella B. et autres récits | A collection of stories combining eroticism and fantasy surrounding beautiful, ambiguous female characters. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Jeury, M. | La petite école dans la montagne | Set in the Loire Valley in 1908. A new teacher tries to help a young orphan pass his exams. Meanwhile another teacher in the school, Emilie, fights for the rights of her female students to have the same education and opportunities as their male counterparts. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Jody, J.-P. | Stringer | A thriller about a young French cameraman who loses his dreams and principles in the world of Los Angeles paparazzi. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Joncour, S. | Combien de fois je t'aime | Seventeen love stories and seventeen ways in which to lose or find each other. Each couple has a very different tale to tell. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Joncour, S. | L'Idole | Unemployed Georges Frangin wakes up one morning to find he is a celebrity for no reason. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Joncour, S. | Que la paix soit avec vous | A man is troubled by images of the war in Iraq which loom on his television screen and the echos of a mysterious presence in his apartment building. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Joyaud, B. | Plaisir en bouche | The rise and fall of an orphan who becomes a genius in cooking. A book which is on a par with Süskind's highly successful "Perfume", evoking the pleasures of taste alongside drama and vengeance. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Kaddour, H. | Waltenberg | Prix du Premier Roman 2005. Historical fresco spanning the Russian Revolution of 1914 to the fall of the Soviet Union, and a love story between a German novelist and an American opera singer. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £14.90 | ||
| Kenig, A. | Camping Atlantic | From a young and gifted writer, about two brothers who rebel against their parents. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Kenig, A. | New Wave | (2009). Eric meets Romain one day at school and is quickly seduced by the New Wave scene of his new friend. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Kenig, A. | La pause | The story about a man in his twenties who lives in a factory area with his father. One day, he decides to shut himself away; a decision which disrupts the district. A powerful novel with its sociological observations by a promising young author. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Ce que le jour doit à la nuit | BESTSELLER. Voted book of the year 2009 by France Télévisions. A novel about life in colonial Algeria. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.60 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | La dingue au bistouri | Crime novel set in Algiers. From the best selling author of "Les Hirondelles de Kaboul" and "L'Attentat". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Les sirènes de Bagdad | The descent into terrorism of a naïve country boy who falls prey to islamic extremism. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Khoury-Ghata, V. | Sept pierres pour la femme adultère | Guilty of adultery and condemned to death by stoning, Noor doesn't imagine for a second that she could escape her fate. Then a Frenchwoman working for a humanitarian organisation intervenes. A doomed love story ensues. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Kleotzer, L. | Le Royaume blessé | The story of Eylir Ap'Callaghan, adventurer, bandit, soldier of luck, beggar and king. Science-fiction novel from this prize-winning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £14.55 | ||
| Kolebka, G. | Tous paranos! | A collection of zany stories which pushes the reader past the limits of reason. From the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Humour noir. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £15.30 | ||
| Krug, C. | Demain si tout va bien | First novel in which Garance attempts to win her ex- back with comic results! |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.85 | ||
| Kundera, M. | Le Rideau | Essay in seven chapters. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Kuperman, N. | J'ai renvoyé Marta | Sandra employs a Polish cleaner but soon finds the tension mounting. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Lachaud, D. | Le Vrai est au coffre | Bullied and excluded as a child, Tom changes his identity in order to seek revenge on those who victimised him. A novel which plays with the concepts of fiction and reality in the determination of the self. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Laclavetine, J-M. | Matins bleus | One day in the life of a busy railway station. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Lacroix, A. | De la supériorité des femmes | First in a trilogy of autobiograhical novels, Lacroix examines the break up of a marriage. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.15 | ||
| Ladjali, C. | Les Souffleurs | Twins Candice and Nathan meet in Venice years after an incestuous liaison. Their mutual love for theatre results in the twins going head-to-head with two productions, Othello and Britannicus. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Laferrière, D | Le goût des jeunes filles | A Haitian exile's sensual evocation of his adolescence in Port-au-Prince. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Lafon, L. | De ça je me console | Emylina recalls her childhood in Ceausescu's Romania and the young Italian who she fell in love with. But the story took a different turn after the assassination of her corrupt patron and her subsequent disappearance |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.30 | ||
| Lanzmann, C. | Shoah | |
| Reprints. Published 1997. Price: £8.20 | ||
| Larbaud, V. | Mon plus secret conseil | A short novel on the theme of love originally published in 1923. Larbaud was a well traveled writer and the French translator of Joyce. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £2.50 | ||
| Laurens, C. | Cet absent-là | Illustrated meditation on the theme of loss from this prizewinning author. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.15 | ||
| Laurens, C. | Ni toi ni moi | A film-maker hears a short story on the radio and the writer agrees to let him adapt it into a screenplay. An emotional and intimate take on powerless and disappearing love. Shorlisted for the prix Goncourt in 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Le Rouge, G. | Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius | A reprint of the popular science fiction thriller series originally published 1912. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Lélu, T. | Jacques Daniel Nick Oussama | Jacques is struck by a mystery illness. Following the doctor's advice he decides to go on holiday but his plane unexpectedly lands in Afghanistan. There he finds a strange community, full of people presumed dead including John Lennon and Claude François. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Lemoine, A. | Les heures chaudes | A passionate love story which leads to a fevered duel underneath a blistering summer sun. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Leroy, G. | Alabama Song | BESTSELLER. PRIX GONCOURT 2007. A mixture of imaginary and biography, the author tells the story of Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Leroy, J. | Monnaie bleue | A novel of secrets and violence set against the background of race riots, corrupt police, and powerful politicians and media barons. 'Monnaie bleue' is both a novel about vengeance, honour and love, and a critique of modern French society |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.35 | ||
| Lesbre, M. | Une simple chute | A woman strangely re-tells her life story to the narrator who is sitting next to her on the train. A description of the spiral of a ruthless and callous scheme which proves ultimately fatal. From a previous winner of the prix Printemps in 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Lévy, B.-H. | American vertigo | |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Levy, M. | Les enfants de la liberté | BESTSELLER March 1943, 18 year-old Raymond gets on a tram and becomes Jeannot. Extraordinary story about forbidden love, death, courage, fear and vengeance among young people who refused to be defeated during the Second World War. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Levy, M. | Et si c'était vrai… | Marc Levy's bestselling romantic novel about a love affair between a man and a woman in a coma! Recently made into a Hollywood film. |
| Reprints. Published 2001. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Levy, M. | Mes amis Mes amours | Bestseller Marc Levy's runaway bestseller about two thirty-something men sharing a flat in London. A film is due soon! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Levy, M. | Toutes ces choses qu'on ne s'est pas dites | BESTSELLER. Days before her wedding Julia learns that her brilliant but distant father has died. But he had one last surprise, a discovery which takes her on an incredible journey and gives her the chance to say all the things that were never said. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Levy, M. | Vous revoir | Bestselling romantic novel from the phenomenal Marc Levy. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.10 | ||
| Littell, J. | Les Bienveillantes | PRIZEWINNER A literary sensation and bestseller in France written in French by an American about a fictional SS officer during the Holocaust. Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2006. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £15.70 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Le rasoir d'Ockham | The first installment of the adventures of Ari Mackenzie. The controversial analyst to the 'Renseignements generaux' uncovers a mysterious occult group. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.90 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Le syndrome Copernic | An original and exciting thriller about a man who is saved by the voices in his head which warn him to flee the scene before a bombing occurs and soon realises that he holds a secret which could change the world. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Lopez, G. | Les Petits Cailloux | Memoirs of the charismatic school teacher made famous by the hit documentary "Être et Avoir". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.15 | ||
| 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… |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Magnan, P. | Laure du bout du monde | The story of Laure, a country girl growing up in the French Alps. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Maillet, G. | French Manucure | A Parisian 'Sex and the City'. A comic novel following the lives of four women in their thirties. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Maillet, G. | Presque top-model | Maryvonne Kerbec had only just arrived in Paris from her native Brittany when she finds herself strutting the catwalks as a model! An engaging satire on the world of fashion. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Makine, A. | L'amour humain | Makine's depiction of human extremes centres on the destiny of an Angolan revolutionary who is in love with a Russian woman. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.20 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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… |
| Reprints. Published 2009. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.20 | ||
| Marietta, A. | N'attendez pas trop longtemps | Similar in style to Anna Gavalda, Marietta shows how self-affirmation, hopes and destinies take time to accomplish when the seller of a house, his estate-agent and two potential female buyers meet. An inspiration to seize every opportunity and a must-read! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Mars, F. | Son parfum | A blind woman recovers her sight for a few instants when she tries a new perfume. From now on, she has just one wish - to find the creator of this magical scent. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £14.50 | ||
| Maudit, A.-M. et J. | La conjuration de la rose noire | In 1651 Giulio de Beauclair, the godchild of Mazarin, is summoned to Paris for an urgent mission as a huge conspiracy surrounding Louis XIV is being organised. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Maugenest, T. | La poudre des rois: une enquête au XIIIe siècle | In thirteenth century Andalucia an old doctor, assisted by his young disciples, looks into the enigma of a fever which attacks only men who fifteen years earlier sailed on a merchant ship headed for the Orient. A delightful historical thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Le Men, Y. | Le petit tailleur de shorts | Seveteen 'true stories'; each a tableau of childhood representing a transition from one stage to another, with all the accompanying fears, desires and surprises. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Michelet, C. | Quand ce jour viendra | Michelet's new novel follows Lieutenant Neyrat and his fiancé journalist Terry Finnegan during the First World War. |
| Reprints. Published 2009 2009. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Michelet, C. | Quelque part dans le monde | A magnificent portrait of a pioneer and a beautiful heroine, full of vitality and adventure by a bestselling author. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Michon, P. | La Grande Beune | The musings of a young teacher recently arrived in the Dordogne. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £3.20 | ||
| Mille, R. | Le Goût des femmes laides | The sentimental education of a young man convinced that he is ugly. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Mille, R. | Le Roman de Marie Bashkirtseff | The award winning author's novel about the tragically short but colourful life of Marie Bashkirtseff, a Russian in exile in France who was an artist as well as the lover of Guy de Maupassant. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Millet, C. | Jour de souffrance | BESTSELLER. By the acclaimed author of 'La vie sexuelle de Catherine M', exploring the theme of jealousy. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Modiano, P. | Un pedigree | Modiano relates his childhood and introduces the themes that run through his work. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Moï, A. | Riz noir | Bestselling semi-autobiographical novel set during the Vietnam war. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Moix, Y | Partouz | In order to seduce a mystery woman, a man begins to frequent the swingers" clubs she favours. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.40 | ||
| Moix, Y. | Panthéon | Recounts the childhood of the author who attempts to escape from his fate as a child martyr abused by his parents. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £11.10 | ||
| Mokeddem, M. | Mes hommes | An Algerian woman doctor who has grown up in a male environment reflects male attitudes to emancipated women. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Monénembo, T. | Le roi de Kahel | Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2008. Based on the life of the Vimcomte of Sanderval who, in the 1880s, began a project to conquer Fouta-Djalon (modern day Guinea) by building a railway line through hostile territory. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Monnier, A. | Givrée | Ironic and absurd novel which proves that sometimes it is the small things which are truly life-changing. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Montana, C. | Carla on my mind | A tragi-comedy about a painful break up from the talented author of "Malabar trip". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Mordillat, G. | Notre part des ténèbres | While a celebration party is taking place on board the luxury space shuttle Nausicaa, something happens to instill deep uncertainty and fear amongst those on board. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.35 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Motrot, I. | Résidence secondaire | A sentimental and joyous comedy about morals. In a small village in Normandy, several couples make the most of their second home, or rather, attempt to. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Moussafir, R. | Du vent dans mes mollets | Nine year old Rachel is taken to see Madame Trebla, a well-meaning child psychologist. Written from the young girl's point of view, Moussafir explores the world of childhood in this witty, engaging and touching novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Muratet, F. | Stoppez les machines | In a little factory in the Parisian suburbs, a violent strike breaks out, led by three young workers — a militant trade unionist and two musicians. A captivating novel about the complexity of social conflict. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £14.80 | ||
| Musso, G. | Et 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £8.55 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Musso, G. | Parce que je t'aime | BESTSELLER. A little girl is abducted from a shopping mall in Los Angeles. Five years later she is found in the same spot she was taken from…Full of mystery and suspense with an unforgettable ending. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Musso, G. | Sauve-moi | Bestselling popular novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.75 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Ndiaye, M | Mon Cœur à l'étroit | (2009). Nadia and her husband Ange are both teachers at a school in Bordeaux. However, the attitude towards the couple begins to sour and they find themselves the object of a bitter and inexplicable hostility from the students, their colleagues and the town. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Autoportrait en vert | Intimate illustrated novella by the prizewinning author of "Rosie Carpe". |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.55 | ||
| Ndiaye, M. | Rosie Carpe | PRIX FEMINA 2001. The seventh novel of Marie Ndiaye tells the story of Rosie Carpe, a lonely, pregnant immigrant from Guadelope. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.45 | ||
| Ndione, A. | Ramata | The story of an old woman named Ramata found dead in front of a café. An interesting tale full of twists and turns which evokes the social and cultural realities of Senegal. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.15 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Chaleur du sang | BESTSELLER Recently discovered treasure following the success of "Suite française". |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Les Chiens et les Loups | Ada and Harry meet in Paris and fall in love, years after they both fled the Jewish ghetto in Ukraine where they grew up together. A story of escape, exile, nostalgia and love. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Les feux de l'automne | Bestseller. Published in 1948 six years after Irène Némirovsky's death, this posthumous classic denounces the bourgeois hypocrisy of the inter-war period. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | La Maître des âmes | A doctor agrees to perform a clandestine abortion in 1920's Nice. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Némirovsky, I. | Le vin de solitude | A largely autobiographical novel about a family of Russian refugees in Paris, and one girl's liberation from this oppressive and secretive family. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Nimier, M. | La reine du silence | Winner of the Prix Médicis 2004. A daughter's homage to a father she hardly knew. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Nimier, M. | Vous dansez? | A collection of texts commissionned by a dance company on the theme of the dancer. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Biographie de la faim | Biographical novel based on the author's itinerant childhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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… |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Nothomb, A. | Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam | BESTSELLER. After the novel 'Stupeur et tremblements' in which Amélie Nothomb recounted her professional life in Japan, she reveals here the story of her engagement to a young man from Tokyo. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Nourissier, F. | La Maison Mélancolie | Chronicle of visits made to houses by the author posing as a potential home buyer! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Nyssen, H. | Éléonore à Dresde | Long ago, a star in a film set in Dresden remains a prisoner in her tragic role as an adolescent. Now in her forties, she reflects on the meaning of the film which has consumed her life. A powerful novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Nyssen, H. | Quand tu seras à Proust la guerre sera finie | A man retires to a village where he writes to an old lover about the meaning of life and the roles of people who have crossed his path. He battles with illusions, distrust and passion in his memory, imagination and dreams. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.10 | ||
| Ollivier, E. | Godelureaux | United by chance, a young group of mischevious friends live a carefree existence in St Germain-des-Prés. A novel which celebrates the Nouvelle Vague, 'Godelureaux' was made into a film by Claude Chabrol in 1961. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Olmi, V. | Sa passion | A magnificent book which one will want to read again and again about a woman who breaks up with her lover, the only man who she has ever loved but who is married. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Ono-dit-Biot, C. | Birmane | César decides to head to Burma to report on the biggest trafficker of opium. In Rangoon, he meets a doctor and an antique dealer who guide him through a formidable adventure. Prix Interallié 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Orban, C | Deux fois par semaine | A touching and surprisingly humourous account of a woman's twice weekly visit to her shrink. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | La chanson de Charles Quint | The story of two brothers, who live in the same town but on opposite sides of the river, and their struggles with the abstract concept of love. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | Dernières nouvelles des oiseaux | Another wonderful fairy tale from the bestselling author of "La Grammaire est une Chanson Douce". Seven children will receive a newly created European prize named "The Prize for Passion". Beautifully illustrated by Santiago Morilla. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | Histoire du monde en neuf guitares | A young man persuaded not to sell his guitar finds that it becomes the focus of a journey of discovery through history from the pyramids to Jimi Hendrix. |
| Reprints. Published 2005. Price: £5.45 | ||
| Orsenna, E. | La révolte des accents | Previous winner of the Prix Goncourt, Erik Orsenna returns with this jubilatory exploration of the French language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.35 | ||
| Outers, J.-L. | Le Bureau de l'heure | A daydreamer and imsomniac at night is responsible for maintaining the Royal Observatory of time and leaves to search for his childhood sweetheart. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.30 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Déloger l'animal | Fifteen-year-old Rose, who has a mental age of 7, is taken to an institute every day by her mother, where she is cared for by psychologists. One day, her mother disappears and Rose begins to ask questions and reinvent her own history. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Et mon coeur transparent | After Lancelot's wife dies suddenly in a car crash he decides to look into her past. Why did she claim to be orphaned when her father was in fact alive? Whose car was she in when she died? And why was a bomb-making manual hidden in their house? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Ovaldé, V. | Les Hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup | Romantic novel exploring themes of desire and dependence. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Page, M. | On s'habitue aux fins du monde | Why does Elias, a successful film producer, throw his coveted award in the Seine? |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Pancol, K | Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles | A writer decides to retire and persuades her sister to carry on with the job of writing in her place! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Pancol, K. | La Valse lente des tortues | BESTSELLER. Thanks to the success of her recent book, Joséphine moves to a new neighbourhood in Passy but a series of murders disturb the area. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.55 | ||
| Parisis, J.-M. | La mélancolie des fast-foods | The portrait of a young man, a "passive fascist" called Hugues Laroque. His sinister tendancies (vanity, violence, racism, morbid romanticism) have a historic air to them. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Pécassou, B. | La Villa Belza | A novel about the emancipation, hope, love, liberty and the eternal conflict between progress and tradition when a woman returns to the Basque country where she was born. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.70 | ||
| Pécherot, P. | Belleville-Barcelone | Set in 1938, in Paris, during the final years of the Front Populaire, this novel traces the events occuring while war ravages Spain and Hitler takes over Austria. A novel of intrigue by the prizewinning author of "Brouillards de la Butte." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Péju, P. | Coeur de pierre | Two people, alienated from their everyday lives, meet the mysterious Mémé la Noire, who reveals to them that they are characters in a novel. A captivating read. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Péju, P. | Le Rire de l'ogre | Holidaymakers Clara and Paul uncover war wounds in the Bavarian countryside. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Pennac, D. | Merci (suivi de Mes italiens) | On reception of a prize, a man delivers a monologue thanking just about everyone he can think of. More hilarity from comic author Pennac. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Perrault, G. | La Jeune femme triste | A woman revisits a house where she used to live during World War 2. Last in a trilogy comprising "Le Garçon aux yeux gris" (adapted for the screen as "Les Égarés') and "L'Homme au bout du rouleau". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Perrault, G. | La jeune femme triste | The final volume in the trilogy which began with "Le garçon aux yeux gris" sees Sylvie, a young girl during the exodus of 1940, return to the house where she hid with her mother and a mysterious boy fourteen years previously. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.65 | ||
| Perrault, G. | Le secret du Roi: La Passion Polonaise (Volume 1) | A contemporary enquiry into the historical event in France called 'The Secret of the King': during the reign of Louis XV the secret service of the King's court attempted to install a Frenchman on the Polish throne. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.85 | ||
| Picouly, D. | Un beau jeudi pour tuer Kennedy | 1964. The 15 year old narrator recounts a particular day in his life and hesitates over his potential destinies. Rhythmic, fast-paced and energetic. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Picouly, D. | Le Cœur à la craie | Part "Petit Nicolas" part "Les Choristes" ('The Chorus'), here are the adventures and misadventures of an excitable nine year-old! |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Pingeot, M. | Le cimetière des poupées | From prison, in a letter to her husband, a woman recounts events leading to her murder of her child. An engaging, courageous novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Plantagenet, A. | Pour les siècles des siècles | Seven short stories based on the themes of love, seduction and desire. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.50 | ||
| Pliskin, F. | L'Agent dormant | Bus driver Mohammed feels ostracised and humiliated until he meets a man who will become his guru. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.55 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. | Courriers de nuit: La legende de Mermoz et de Saint-Exupéry | Adventures in early twentieth century aviation. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, O. & P. | Frères et sœur | Two brothers are searching separately for their sister after the family was split up ten years previously. They meet each other, and discover a brotherly relationship that is at times fraught but also vibrant. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Poivre d'Arvor, P. | 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…. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Polack, S. | Route Royale | 21-year-old Constance has just got out of prison and she knows that the love of her life, David, will not be coming back. She is alone until she meets Werner on Christmas Eve, a mysterious man with a trust fund and a fascination for criminals |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £5.95 | ||
| Polet, G. | Leurs vies éclatantes | A photographer installs himself in the tower of Saint Sulpice in Paris to take panoramic photos of the church and the square. He witnesses both a wedding and a funeral, and watches the vibrant life of Parisians go by. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Pollet-Villard, P. | La fabrique de souvenirs | A comic look at family life in the aftermath of 1968. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Pollet-Villard, P. | L'homme qui marchait avec une balle dans la tête | A stylish, comic and poetic text about a man who becomes a gangster, documenting his crimes, love affairs, his family and his ideal quest. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.90 | ||
| Pujade-Renaud, C. | Le Désert de la Grâce | Until its eradication in 1709 the Abbey Port-Royal des Champs, opposite Versailles, was a symbol of independence. This story of persecution and survival is told by a group of women, including Marie-Catherine Racine, daughter of Jean Racine. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Pulvar, A. | L'Enfant-bois | Eva returns to Martinique after a long exile. Painful memories are rekindled. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Puppinck, B. | Satine | Satine, a manicurist in a chic beauty salon in Paris" Place Vendôme is descending into a spiral of paranoia. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Quadruppani, S. | Colchiques dans les prés | After twenty years in prison, Simon is released and vows to confront his former accomplices to find out why they betrayed him. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.85 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | L'Amante | Paris 1969. Marc is eighteen years old and has just lost his mother. He wanders from one woman to another, always looking for true love. From the author of "Les Noces barbares", winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1985. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.75 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | L'Amour est fou | Nothing is quite the same for reclusive Marc after his mother's death. He starts an affair with an older woman, Aline. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Queffélec, Y. | Le Dégustation | A man in his fifties owns a wine business and marries a twenty-year-old wine-expert. Each have a secret and a past…A superb, interesting and well-written novel, rich in language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.90 | ||
| Quignard, P | Villa Amalia | On discovering her husband's infidelity, middle-aged Anne decides to start a new life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Quint, M. | Une ombre, sans doute | (2009). To understand his aged parents' sudden suicide, the narrator returns to his childhood village in Northern France. Flashback to the Second World War, and his parents have just met. The entire village is trying to ignore the outside horrors of war but their stability is threatened by arrival of an English spy and a German soldier. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Rambaud, P. | Le Chat botté | An excellent historical novel with humour about the ascension of a man after the fall of Robespierre - Bonaparte. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Rambaud, P. | Chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier | A satirical look behind the scenes of the President's first few months in offices. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.95 | ||
| Reinhardt, E. | Cendrillon | Tells the story of four men, one of whom is the author himself. Each have a troubled relationship with his father, suffer from feelings of inadequacy and fear in adolescence. After similar beginnings, the four go on to lead very different lives. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Rey, N. | Courir à trente ans | Four men are nostalgic about their lost youth. Prizewinning young author. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £6.80 | ||
| 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…. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. 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". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.60 | ||
| Rheims, N. | Le Cercle de Megiddo | A Kabbalist thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Rheims, N. | Le rêve de Balthus | A glimpse of an enigmatic painting prompts an emancipatory trip to Venice. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Ricaud, A. | Pretty man | Marie is a journalist and has everything going for her - a perfect husband, four fabulous children and a job which she is passionate about. A refreshing and lively novel which proves that there is still life after one's fifties for women. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.00 | ||
| Riou, J-M. | Le Secret de Champollion | Historical novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £6.85 | ||
| Riou, J.-M. | La prophétie de golgotha | (2009). Golgotha is a strange and powerful cult responsible for the assassination of Jaures and Arch Duke Ferdinand, the 1918 armistice, the Second World War…but why are they out to destroy civilisation and will they be discovered? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £13.25 | ||
| Robbe-Grillet, C. | Jeune mariée: Journal 1957-1962 | The intriguing diaries of the very young wife of Nouveau Roman author Alain Robbe-Grillet. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.85 | ||
| Roberts, J.-M. | La prière | Antoine and Naima's first meeting at the beginning of the 1960s remains hazy and incomplete. In 1969, Antoine has just celebrated his 15th birthday and Naima is only just 20. She ignores the fact that Antoine will be attached to her for the rest of her life. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £7.90 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £16.75 | ||
| Rolin, J. | Terminal Frigo | A man embarks on a journey round France via ports including Marseille, Calais and Saint-Nazaire. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £4.90 | ||
| Rolin, O. | Suite à l'hôtel Crystal | Short stories set in hotel rooms. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.40 | ||
| Roubaudi, L. | Le 18 | Humorous and touching novel about firemen! |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £12.60 | ||
| Rykner, A. | Nur | A man is sent on a mission to an oriental village ravaged by war where he meets a married woman. Powerful and sensual. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Sa, S. | Les conspirateurs | A CIA agent is tracking a former Tiananmen Square heroine now living in Paris. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Saint-Bris, G. | Les vieillards de Brighton | |
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| Sallenave, D. | La Fraga | New England governess Mary Gordon finds emancipation in nineteenth century Venice. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Sallenave, D. | Un printemps froid | A collection of short stories. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Salvayre, L. | Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique | He is the king of the fast-food industry but Tobold has one more market to conquer: legacy. He hires a young author to write a biography. As she penetrates into the capitalist ideology she is both fascinated and horrified by her subject. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.15 | ||
| Sam, A. | Les Tribulations d'une Caissière | Anna is a 28-year-old graduate who has spent the past eight years working at a supermarket check out. To survive the monotony of her job Anna starts to recount the tales of her work, observing the habits of a wide range of customers. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Sansal, B. | Harraga | Algerian Lamia's brother has disappeared. She is in despair. One day a woman, Chérifa, turns up at her house in Algiers… |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Sardou, R. | Délivrez-nous du mal | (2009). Set in winter 1288 against the backdrop of religious quarrels and the strength of the Church, this historical thriller tells the story of a young boy raised in a monastery but accused of witchcraft. At the same time a priest disappears in Rome. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.75 | ||
| Sardou, R. | Sauver Noël | 1854, London. The 25th December arrives but Christmas has not taken place. Sadness submerges the city, except for one house belonging to a strange baron who celebrates. His neighbour, the governess, decides to do everything to save Christmas. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | L'évangile selon Pilate | A personal view of the mystery of the resurrection, in the form of a novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Schmitt, E.-E. | Théâtre 1: la nuit de Valognes; le visiteur; le bâillon; l'école du diable | |
| Reprints. Price: £7.60 | ||
| Schneck, C. | Sa petite chérie | A tender and bitter novel about the madness of being loved. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Sebbar, L. | La Seine était rouge | October 1961. The end of the war in Algeria is close, but a peaceful protest by the Seine turns violent and a dozen young Algerians are killed by French police. Nearly 40 years later, 16 year old Amel knows nothing about that fateful day. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.55 | ||
| Signol, C. | La Grande Île | Family strife in the Dordogne. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £9.40 | ||
| Signol, C. | Les Messieurs de Grandval, Volume 2: Les Dames de la Ferrière | After "Les Messieurs de Grandval," the novelist returns with this story about two new generations of Grandval who see their peaceful existence disrupted by the First World War. Impeded love, rivalry and family conflicts come in to play. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.15 | ||
| Sijie, D. | Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée | In 1978, a young French woman heads for Peking to study Chinese. There she meets a Chinese man who reveals his secret preoccupation to her — finding the missing part of a mysterious manuscript written in an unknown language. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £10.30 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les anneau de Bicêtre | René Maugras, head of a media empire, wakes up in hospital half-paralysed after an accident during a business dinner. By the author of the hugely popular Maigret series. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Clients d'Avrenos | Set in Turkey. What links teenager Nouchi with alleged diplomat de Jonsac? |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Je me souviens | In 1940 the author was erroneously diagnosed with angina and given only a few years to live. He decided to tell his life story in the form of letters to his son. A novel from the hugely prolific author of the 'Maigret' series. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Lettre à ma mère: et autres textes | (2009). Inspired by Simenon's visit to his ill mother, he writes her an open letter exploring their relationship. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Malempin | The illness of his son triggers a father's childhood memory of events he has surpressed. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.15 | ||
| Simon, Y. | Je voudrais tant revenir | A writer isolated from the world goes to Paris to meet his biographer, a young and shy author. They eventually become close friends through their mutual desire for a meaningful and worthy life. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Simonay, B. | La porte de bronze | Aurévia is a planet of paradise and harmony where a couple's love for each other seems indestructible. However, the arrival of a lord threatens to disrupt the peace on their island. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.35 | ||
| Smadja, B. | Le jaune est se couleur | Smadja beautifully evokes the dignity, courage and humour of a man facing death and his best friend's gradual acceptance of absence. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.95 | ||
| Sorman, J | Boys, boys, boys | A fun feminist novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £5.10 | ||
| Subiela, M. | Le Sang des Hauteville - 2: Le Royaume sur la Mer | Second in the historical fiction series 'Le Sang des Hauteville'. Robert de Hauteville wants to conquer Byzance and become emperor of the Orient, but jealousy, rivalry and intrigue threaten the kingdom. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £11.85 | ||
| Subiela, M. | Le sang des Hauteville, 1: Les Chevaliers de proie | Historical saga set around the year 1060 with the Norman Knights in Sicily. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £12.90 | ||
| Sulitzer, P-L. | L'Empire du dragon | Kidnapping and espionnage in the powerful Chinese industrial world. Thriller. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.45 | ||
| Svit, B. | Un coeur de trop | A tale of self-discovery as a Slovenian woman marries a French man and lives in France until she learns that her father has died and that she has inherited a small house in her childhood village. A pleasure to read! |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.20 | ||
| Taddeus, T. | La corde aux jours impairs | A young police inspector does not have much luck on his first investigation with a fearless and ruthless killer on the loose. Taddeus creates an original, raw first novel. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Tadjer, A. | Bel-Avenir | Recounting the story of a white man living in "Bel-Avenir" among a community of Arabs and Africans. By a writer who has the rare gift of speaking of serious matters with humour. A work reminiscent of Romain Gary and Daniel Pennac. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £6.30 | ||
| Tardieu, L. | Rêve d'amour | Alice doesn't remember much about her mother, who disappeared when she was five. Just before her father dies, he tells her of the other man her mother loved. Alice sets out to find this man and discover the truth about her past. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.15 | ||
| Tchoungui, E. | Je vous souhaite la pluie | Camerounian Ngazan leaves Africa for Paris and finds it hard to adapt to her new life. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.35 | ||
| Testud, S. | Le ciel t'aidera | Heart warming novel about a girl with too much imagination. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.30 | ||
| 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.45 | ||
| Teulé, J. | Darling | Dedicated to those who refuse to suffer the cruelty of life in silence, Jean Teulé tells the story of a woman who wishes to be called "Darling" to erase the memories of a painful childhood. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £6.00 | ||
| Teulé, J. | Le Magasin des Suicides | In this clever black comedy, the Tuvache family owns and operates a store unlike any other – one that is filled solely with products that help in committing suicide. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.50 | ||
| Tillinac, D. | Je nous revois… | After the death of Raoul Dutheil, the fragile harmony of his cosmopolitan group of friends is shattered. A novel of decadence and humour. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Tong Cuong, V. | Ferdinand et les iconoclastes | The rise and rise of Ferdinand, handsome, intelligent and successful… |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.65 | ||
| Tong Cuong, V. | Où je suis | Agnès is a man-hunter. Her aim is to take revenge on the entire male species. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £4.30 | ||
| Toussaint, J-P | L'appareil-photo | A burlesque novel originally published in 1988. This reprint includes an recent interview with the author. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £7.25 | ||
| Toussaint, J.-P. | Fuir | BESTSELLER. The moment he arrives in China the author is given a mobile phone – is this a gift or a method of surveillance? |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Touzet, C. | La reine violée: Éclose entre fleurs de lys | First in a series of historical novels about the renowned Isabeau de Bavière. Isabelle is a thirteen year old Bavarian princess when she meets French King Charles VI. They fall in love and are married within three days. |
| Reprints. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Tremblay, M. | La Nuit de princes charmants | Set in the bars of Montréal, Jean-Marc is on a quest to lose his virginity. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Trouillot, L. | L'amour avant que j'oublie | An older man declares his love to a young woman through writing. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.80 | ||
| Trouillot, L. | Bicentenaire | Student demonstrations disrupt bicentenary celebrations of the independence of Haïti in 2004. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.65 | ||
| Troyat, H. | La Fiancée de l'ogre | Inspired by Napoleon's real life "eternal fiancée', the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £8.20 | ||
| van Cauwelaert, D. | L'Évangile de Jimmy | A swimming pool repair man in Connecticut is mistaken for Jesus Christ. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. 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. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.30 | ||
| Van Cauwelaert, D. | Rencontre sous X | The meeting between Talia, a young Ukranian who comes to Paris to become a model and a young South African footballer. |
| Reprints. Published 2004. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Various | 3 nouvelles comiques | Three funny short stories with annotations — "Un drame bien parisien', "Héloïse" and " Pour préparer un œuf dur". Student's edition. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £3.40 | ||
| Various | Trois nouvelles noires | Three crime novellas with commentary and notes. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £3.40 | ||
| Vasseur, F. | Une fille dans la ville | From New York to Kabul via Paris, Seoul and Mexico, this is a fascinating road-novel about a heroine who creates her own business, fears boredom and has a hatred for the mundane. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.60 | ||
| Vautrin, J. | Si on s'aimait? | A collection of stories which depict the cracks, habits and personal worries of people from different countries and of all ages. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.65 | ||
| Viel, T. | Insoupçonnable | Lisa is marrying Henri, a rich widower twice her age; our narrator, Sam, is her brother. At least, Henri must believe that he is her brother, in order for their kidnapping plot to be successful… |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Vigan, D. de | No et moi | Winner of the Prix des Librairies 2008 and shortlisted for the Prix des Lecteurs 2009. A young intellectual savant meets a homeless girl hardly older than herself and brings her home to rescue her. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Vilar, J.-F. | C'est toujours les autres qui meurent | An atmospheric, dark novel where the intrigue revolves around Marcel Duchamp's last painting, "Etant donnés." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Vizinczey, S. | Eloge des femmes mûres | Bestselling novel about the sentimental education of a young man in the arms of older women. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £5.70 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | Les futurs mystères de Paris 2: Les ravisseurs quantiques | Science Fiction series. Tem leads an enquiry about the mysterious use of hallucinogenics. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £7.80 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | L.G.M. | In a parallel world in the 1990s, the USSR dominates the world and the United States is undergoing a new civil war. A French secret agent is in charge of finding the ambassador of the planet Mars who has been abducted. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £9.35 | ||
| Wagner, R. C. | L'odyssée de l'espèce | Set in Paris 2063, private detective Tem is unjustly accused of a crime he did not commit. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Wagner, R.C. | Les futurs mystères de Paris 1: la balle du néant | Centred around a private detective who has the special power of being "transparent" and who leads an investigation into the death of a physicist. Highly recommended for fans of detective and fantasy novels. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Weisberger, L | People or not people | Translation of "Everyone Worth Knowing". Author of the hit "The Devil Wears Prada". |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £11.20 | ||
| Werber, B. | Le Mystère des dieux | BESTSELLER. Final book in the trilogy 'Nous, les dieux'. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £10.80 | ||
| Werber, B. | Le papillon des étoiles | Recounting the flight of a large handful of human beings into space on the "Papillon des étoiles", in search of a planet where a new humanity can be born…Written by the popular author of "Les Fourmis." |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £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. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £17.45 | ||
| Weyergans, F | Trois jours chez ma mère | Finally available in reprint, the 2005 Goncourt winner is a real gem. |
| Reprints. Published 2007. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Wiazemsky, A. | Jeune fille | PRIZEWINNER In 1965, the 18 year-old narrator meets the film-maker Robert Bresson who tries to seduce her. Wiazemsky plunges the reader with modesty, restraint and great skill into youth. Prix Lilas 2007. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £5.35 | ||
| Winckler, M. | Les Trois médecins | Follow-up to the bestselling doctor series "La Maladie de Sachs" and "La Vacation', featuring protagonist Bruno Sachs. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £8.60 | ||
| Zamponi, F. | In nomine Patris | During a murder trial, a lawyer is called to defend a priest who stands accused of involvement in the terrorist activities of the OAS during the Algerian war, thirty-seven years earlier. Little by little, the truth from the past begins to resurface. |
| Reprints. Published 2009. Price: £8.90 | ||
| Zeller, F. | La Fascination du pire | Prix Interallié 2004. A young writer fascinated by Flaubert is invited to a conference in Egypt. |
| Reprints. Published 2006. Price: £7.40 | ||
| Zeller, F. | Julien Parme | Narrated with humour and style by a fourteen year-old who is misunderstood by his mother, step-father and his half-sister who he can never live up to. He takes us with him through his highs and lows and his first moments of freedom. |
| Reprints. Published 2008. Price: £7.65 | ||
