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| Abécassis, A. | Au secours, il veut m'épouser! | Déborah, heroine of "Tribulations d'une jeune divorcée" is back with her crazy friends, daughters and internet fiancé in tow! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.85 | ||
| Abécassis, A. | Toubib or not toubib | A doctor suffering from a lack of confidence consults a psychiatrist who recommends hypnosis but there is a glitch in the process and she becomes endowed with superpowers - telepathy, telekinesis and an impressive memory - with hilarious results. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.85 | ||
| Abécassis, E. | Un heureux événement | Barbara is doing a doctorate in philosophy. When she becomes pregnant, her life takes a different slant. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.55 | ||
| Abécassis, E. | Mère et fille, un roman | A story about love, possession, admiration and emancipation through the destiny of a mother and daughter. From the author of "Un heureux événement." |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.20 | ||
| Achache, C. | La Plage de Trouville | The narrator receives a call from an employee at the Beaubourg museum and discovers that a painting was stolen from her family by the Nazis during the Second World War. The revelation forces her to explore a past which she fears. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.70 | ||
| Adam, O | À l'abri de rien | Bestseller. Marie's life doesn't seem to have a purpose. One day she takes up voluntary work serving food to illegal immigrants and things take a different turn… Nominated for the Prix Goncourt. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.60 | ||
| Adam, P. | Ton petit manège | Twelve entertaining short stories in which the characters are all running or escaping from something. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.35 | ||
| Adely, E. | Mon amour | A portrait of relationships |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.50 | ||
| Aeschimann, E. | Dieu n'existe pas encore | Set in the 1970s, the son of a Jewish minister believes that the world can exist without nationality and religion. But his values and his life change dramatically as war in Iraq breaks out. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.45 | ||
| Aggoune, H. | Premières heures au paradis | A young French comedian prepares to go to Rio de Janeiro to act in a film by David Lynch which stirs up powerful emotions in him as he re-lives and reminisces his past. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.75 | ||
| Aguzou, C. | Printemps | A series of events leads a woman who is planning to direct a film about the Amazons to spend a night with a young man in a lorry. Memorable anecdotes and burlesque conversations ensue. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.30 | ||
| Alcoba, L. | Manèges: Petite histoire argentine | An account of a clandestine childhood spent in Argentina as the child of parents involved in the revolutionary Montoneros movement. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £12.95 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Ap.J.-C. | Winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de L'Académie Française 2007. A novel exploring early Christian myths. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.95 | ||
| Alexakis, V. | Je t'oublierai tous les jours | An ageing man recounts events both global and personal to a mystery woman, later revealed as his mother. Touching novel from a former Médicis winner. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.70 | ||
| Alix de Saint-André | Il n'y a pas de grandes personnes | The author, a fan of two great writers, Marcel Proust and André Malraux, describes the impact both have on her life. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.70 | ||
| Amette, J-P. | Un été chez Voltaire | From the prize-winning author of "La Maîtresse de Brecht". Summer 1761. The playwright Voltaire has gathered a troope of Italian actors to rehearse in his château… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.95 | ||
| Ananissoh, T. | Un reptile par habitant | School teacher Narcisse is wrongly implicated in a suspected coup d'état plot. Beautifully crafted second novel from Togolese author. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.65 | ||
| Ancion, N. | Écrivain cherche place concierge | A young writer takes a job in a château concierge thinking the peace of the countryside will allow him to write, but he's unprepared for the drama that unfolds… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £11.95 | ||
| Angot, C. | Le marché des amants | A woman falls in love with a French singer but is also attracted by a journalist. An autobiographical novel on love, prejudice and the malaise in contemporary French society. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.50 | ||
| Angot, C. | Rendez-vous | Christine Angot is known for her confessional writing. In her latest, Christine meets an actor and starts a new affair. A novel about theatre, passion and literature. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.70 | ||
| Appanah, N. | Le dernier frère | Prix du Roman FNAC 2007. The story of a flight of Jewish refugees expelled from Palestine in 1940 and deported to Mauritius, then a British colony. Shortlisted for the Prix Fémina and the Prix Médicis |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.60 | ||
| Apperry, Y. | Terre sans maître | A novel about the loss of memory as a man in his thirties climbs a mountain to reach the Wall and gradually discovers where he comes from. By the author of "Diabolus in musica" and "Farrago," winners of the prix Médicis and prix Goncourt des lycéens. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.25 | ||
| Arditi, M. | La Pension Marguerite | While on tour in Paris, a violinist receives a bundle of letters which may hold the key to his mother's suicide five years earlier. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.90 | ||
| Arditi, M. | Victoria-Hall | A mysterious letter dated 1910 falls into the hands of an antiquarian bookseller in Prague. It reveals a meeting between Kafka and Proust… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £8.70 | ||
| Arène, P. | Contes de Provence | Short lyrical stories inspired by Provence. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.55 | ||
| Arès, B. | Ne pas digérer | A faceless "being" searches for his lost voice and on his journey meets characters who bring him closer to and distance him from his quest. Beautifully written. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.15 | ||
| Arnaud, E. | Les Trilingues | The 6e class is special. They are learning Japanese! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £7.80 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Donnant, donnant | Hélène leaves France to try her luck in America with her young son. Through contacts she finds work in the film business and marries a script writer. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.70 | ||
| Arnothy, C. | Une Rentrée littéraire | A bankrupt editor agrees to publish a young writer on one condition… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.75 | ||
| Assouline, P. | Le portrait | The fascinating story of an enigmatic portrait of Betty de Rothschild exhibited in a number of aristocratic houses before being stolen by Goering in WW2. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.30 | ||
| Avril, N. | Dernière mise en scène | An actress suffering from amnesia returns to the scene of the car accident to discover who she was. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Bachi, S. | Les Douze contes de minuit | Short stories from Algeria. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.90 | ||
| Bachi, S. | Le silence de Mahomet | Recounting the life of the prophet Mahomet seen by four different characters - his first wife Khadija, his best friend Abou Bakr, the general Khalid and his partner Aicha at nine years old. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.60 | ||
| Bailly, P. | Polichinelle | A story about a group of young people who kill time by drinking, smoking and listening to rap music. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.45 | ||
| Banier, F-M. | Les Femmes du métro Pompe | 1950's Paris. The Spanish area is the backdrop for this coming of age tale. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.25 | ||
| Barbéris, D. | Quelque chose à cacher | A woman's body is found in the family property near the Loire river. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.90 | ||
| Barbery, M. | L'Élégance du hérisson | Fascinating novel told from the alternative points of view of a concierge in an affluent Parisian apartment building and a twelve year-old girl who lives there. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.25 | ||
| Barrière, L. | Le chœur des enfants khmers | Written through the eyes of a Cambodian brought up in France who develops a strong bond with a young man alive during the time of the Khmers. Together they re-discover their ravaged country. Inspired by the memoires of Rotha M., a Khmer born in 1972. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.30 | ||
| Baruk, S. | Naître en français | Touching description of an itinerant childhood in Iran and Lebanon. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.25 | ||
| Bassignac, S. | Les aquariums lumineux | In a Parisian apartment block, Clare observes her neighbours day and night. Her life seems perfectly well-ordered until the day she meets a Japanese man who becomes her obsession. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.45 | ||
| Bataille, C. | Le rêve de Machiavel | The plague is everywhere in Florence and without knowing why, Machiavelli saves a young, ill woman from a fire. An enigmatic and powerful novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.20 | ||
| Bauchau, H. | Le boulevard périphérique | Whilst visiting his step-daughter during his struggle against cancer, the narrator recalls his childhood friend who became a member of the Resistance and was found dead in suspicious circumstances. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.15 | ||
| Beaujour, J. | Dans le décor | Fiction and reality collide in this ciné-novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £12.75 | ||
| Behar, T. | Coups bas et talons hauts | A romantic comedy telling the adventures and love life of a glamorous woman working in public relations. Highly entertaining and a pleasure to read! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Beigbeder, F | Au secours pardon | Octave Parango (from the hit "99 Francs') is back! This time he is trawling the streets of Moscow to find a beautiful woman to incarnate the face of the cosmetics giant he works for. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £23.75 | ||
| Beigbeder, F. | L'égoïste romantique | Oscar Dufresne is 34 years old. He writes a diary for a newspaper and hopes his life will become as exciting as in his column! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.95 | ||
| Beigbeder, G. | Sponsors | Two Parisian film makers embark on a voyage of discovery to post-Milosevic Serbia. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.70 | ||
| Beinstingel, T., Bon, F., Chevillard, E. et al | Seize nouvelles | A collection of texts from sixteen contemporary French authors in hommage to ten years of the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.90 | ||
| Belaiche-Daninos, P | Les 76 jours de Marie-Antoinette à la Conciergerie: La Conjuration de l'Oeillet | The plot to free Queen Marie-Antoinette told here with great accuracy thanks to extensive archival research. Prix Jacques de Fouchier de l'Académie française 2006. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £12.95 | ||
| Bellamy, L. | Extra-muros | Short stories set in the troubled Parisian suburbs. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.25 | ||
| Bello, A. | Les Falsificateurs | An employee tries to get to the bottom of the activities of a secret international organisation, the CFR, which falsifies reality. An ambitious and enjoyable thriller. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.65 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Partir | A novel about the vision of exile. From a seafront café in Tangiers, a group of students dream about Spain, whose coast is visible in the distance. One of them decides to leave… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.50 | ||
| Ben Jelloun, T. | Sur ma mère | BESTSELLER A victim of Alzheimer's, the mother recounts significant events during her life to her son, from her three marriages to her wanderings in Morocco between 1930-1940. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.85 | ||
| Benacquista, T. | Malavita encore | The Blake family are under surveillance from the FBI. The father has published his memoirs from his days in the Mafia, his children dream of staying in Paris to flee from their parents and his wife decides to emancipate herself. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.70 | ||
| Benameur, J. | Laver les ombres | A talented dancer is in love with a painter. The strength of this novel lies in the bond between mother and daughter in Naples, during the war. An intense, emotional and sensitive novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.15 | ||
| Benchetrit, S. | Chroniques de l'asphalte, 1/5 | At the age of thirty, Benchetrit is already writing his autobiography. This is the first of five volumes and tells of his childhood growing up in a tower block in a Parisian suburb. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Bénégui, L. | Le tournevis infiniment petit | An action-packed novel about a man whose world collapses when he discovers that he does not have cancer. Convinced that he is going to die, he draws up a list of things to do without hesitation. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.40 | ||
| Bermond, D. | Mademoiselle R. | Paris, 30 years after the death of Robespierre, his sister remembers the "Terror" and evokes the intimate memories of her family amidst the violence, betrayal, intrigue, suspicion, sacrified love and broken friendships during the Revolution. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.90 | ||
| Bertholon, D. | Twist | An 11 year old girl isi abducted on her way back from school. Two voices echo through this novel - that of the broken mother who refuses to believe her daughter is dead and that of the girl herself. Beautifully and carefully written. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.10 | ||
| Bessette, H. | Suite suisse | From a little known but extraordinary author, Bessette evokes with humour and irony the trials and tribulations of her alter-ego writer exiled in Switzerland. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.30 | ||
| Besson, P. | Belle sœur | A man finds himself falling in love with his brother's fiancée! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.40 | ||
| Besson, P. | Se résoudre aux adieux | A master of the intimate novel, Besson describes a relationship break-up through a series of letters written from different parts of the world. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.70 | ||
| Bessora | Cueillez-moi jolis Messieurs…. | Touching novel about two very different women who share a flat with their respective children. A pleasure to read! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Bessora | Et si Dieu me demande dites-Lui que je dors | Female novelists receive a mysterious invitation signed by Edmond VII offering them the opportunity to travel to Cameroon but before doing so, they must each write about their female idol; a problematic task for our heroine Rosie who is an amnesiac. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.50 | ||
| Béteille, R. | La rivère en colère | Set in the 1930s, a young engineer is employed to build a flood barrier which will disrupt the harmony and old traditions of a forgotten, secluded village in the Massif central. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.80 | ||
| Beucler, V. | Les particules de mon mari sont authentiques | In a small town in the Caribbean, a young advisor at the French embassy sends a message to the ambassador by mistake and tries to retrieve it. A comedy and a social satire. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £23.95 | ||
| Beyala, C. | L'Homme qui m'offrait le ciel | When an African single mother and a white married man begin an affair everything seems to be against them. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.60 | ||
| Beyala, C. | La plantation | Two Zimbabwean sisters are forced to re-examine their priorities. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £23.15 | ||
| Bialot, J. | Le Jour où Albert Einstein s'est échappé | An energetic and darkly humourous text about love and liberty. Einstein escapes from a retirement home and meets a taxi driver who becomes his confidant and accompanies him on his search for his past lover. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £11.75 | ||
| Bigot, C. | L'Archange et le Procureur | Biography of Camille Desmoulins who was guillotined at the age of 34 for criticising the "Terror" of Robespierre, leaving behind her son, Horace. As an adult, he writes to his grandmother to discover the truth about his parents. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.40 | ||
| Billeter, J. | Parfois si louve… | A young woman promises to submit herself completely and sexually to the narrator if he writes her a short, sadistic novel but as the relationship progresses, the power shifts between the two lovers… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.95 | ||
| Billeter, J. | Raspoutine et la Biche Fauve | A bitter-sweet comedy of manners centering on a fifty-something Parisian Nouchka. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.70 | ||
| Billot, A. | La conjecture de Syracuse | The story about a French mathemetician whose existence is undermined by the arrival of an Algerian student. A breathless and mysterious novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.95 | ||
| Bizot, T. | Catholic anonyme | An autobiographical novel about a non-practicing Catholic who receives an invitation to attend a catechism class and has an encounter which will change his entire life… Enchanting. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.80 | ||
| Bizot, V. | Les Jardiniers | Six stories which defy logic and explore the absurd to discover a remarkable writer. Winner of the Prix Renaissance de la nouvelle 2006 with her first novel "Les Sangliers," Bizot again displays her exceptional talent for black humour. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.65 | ||
| Blas de Roblès, J.-M. | Là où les tigres sont chez eux | A news correspondant in north-east Brazil receives a manuscript re-tracing the biography of a famous Jesuit in the baroque era. He investigates and crosses paths with numerous unforgettable characters. Prix Médicis 2008. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £27.25 | ||
| Bofane, I. K. | Mathématiques congolaises | Magnificent and exotic escapism portrayed with a rythmic text, at the same time social, political and romantic. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £24.95 | ||
| Boissard, J. | Allez France! | Nine year-old France is about to go back to school for another rollercoaster of a year! An endearing novel told from a child's point of view. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.50 | ||
| Boissard, J. | La chaloupe: vol 1'Le talisman' | Four friends buy a house in the Loire but their peace is disturbed by strange phenomena. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.70 | ||
| Bona, D. | La ville d'hiver | Sarah spends the winter in Villa Teresa and is plunged back into her past. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.40 | ||
| Boni, T. | Matins de couvre-feu | A satire on Ivory Coast society. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.85 | ||
| Bonneau, R. | Piège de feu à la Charité | A novel centred around the great dramatic event on May 4th 1897 when a fire destroyed the Charity Sales Bazar and caused more than 140 deaths. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.20 | ||
| Bonnery, A. et M. | Les Deux Visages de Janus | Summer 680. Rome is shaken by a series of strange events: a killer murders innocent victims, while in churches, religious icons and relics are destroyed. The bishop of Rome, aided by monk Eucher leads his own investigation. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £25.80 | ||
| Bordage, P. | Les chemins de Damas | Third novel in the "Prophéties" trilogy. Set in the aftermath of a war waged between the Islamic countries and Europe. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.30 | ||
| Borrel, A | Expiration | First novel. A fascinating exploration of intra- and extra-muros Paris or central Paris and the suburbs beyond… Evokes the world of J.G. Ballard mixed with the sci-fi classic "Gattaca". |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.85 | ||
| Bouillère, O. | Rétro | In 1998, the narrator is a young man whose wealth allows him to indulge in what he pleases. In 1978, the same narrator evokes the period of insouciance with his acquired knowledge and sensitivity from adulthood. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.25 | ||
| Bouillier, G., Cathrine, A., Jaenada, P., et al | 10 ans, 10 auteurs, 10 nouvelles | Ten previously unpublished stories celebrate the new generation of talented writers in France. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £7.95 | ||
| Boulouque, C | Nuit ouverte | An actress takes the role of the first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas, ordained in 1935. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.60 | ||
| Bouquet, A. | J'ai épousé un con | A hilarious story about a woman who is a socialite and falls crazily in love. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.55 | ||
| Bouraoui, N | Avant les hommes | Jérémie lives with his mother on an estate. One summer he finds himself attracted to his friend Sami… An exploration of the fragility of adolescence. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.25 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Appelez-moi par mon prénom | After winning the prix Renaudot in 2005 for "Mes mauvaises pensées," Nina Bouraoui returns with this luminous novel about the meeting between a young female writer and one of her admirers. Fluidly written. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.80 | ||
| Bouraoui, N. | Mes mauvaises pensées | Prix Renadot 2005. A Franco-Algerian girl exorcises her demons, or "bad thoughts" of the title, through visits to her analyst. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.95 | ||
| Bourdain, F. | Passion fauvre, Un | A struggling circus group leave 1920's Hungary for Madrid where the dancer catches the eye of an Irish heir… who would believe the union could be real? |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.50 | ||
| Bourdin, F. | Un cadeau inespéré | A Christmas-special novel! A ten-year old boy tries to bring a smile back to his mother's face on Christmas Eve. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.85 | ||
| Bourdin, F. | L'inconnue de Peyrolles | Tired of parisian life, a woman returns to the house of her youth in south-west France. However her idyll is soon disturbed by odd occurences. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.10 | ||
| Bourgois, O. | Les amis d'autrefois | A civil servant's journey of self discovery changes course when an ex-mistress dies and designates him executor of the will. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.35 | ||
| Bragance, A. | Une enfance marocaine | Bragance charts her experiences growing up in Morocco |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.85 | ||
| Bragance, A. | L'Heure magique de la fiancée du pickpocket | Maxim pickpockets Irina but finds her pockets empty. They meet again in a café where he proposes marriage. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.10 | ||
| Brami, A. | Sans elle | After the death of her father and her sister, ten year old Léa decides to do everything she can to put a smile on her mother's face, despite the grief which touches them both. A touching first novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.85 | ||
| Braudeau, M. | Sarabande | "Génération stagiaire" Blanche starts a placement with a publishing house and rapidly becomes disenchanted. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.60 | ||
| Braunstein, J. with illustrations by F. Dalle-Rive | Les Week-ends du père célibataire | A graphic novel about a single father who only sees his son at weekends. A humorous and engaging look at fathers" rights. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.70 | ||
| Breillat, C. | Bad love | From the contraversial feminist film maker and writer comes a absorbing love story penned in two voices. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.15 | ||
| Brigouleix, B. & M. Gayral | Le roman de Tolède | Latest in the spellbinding series of novels of illustrious cities. This is the story of the Spanish city of Toledo, for a time a model of religious coexistence. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.60 | ||
| Brival, R. | Un amour à Saanbad | While his wife is away, the narrator reflects on their relationship and on his vocation as a writer. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.30 | ||
| Brouste, J. | Après Shanghai | The incredible adventures of a colonial doctor turned desperado in nineteenth century Asia. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.45 | ||
| Bruckner, P. | L'Amour du prochain | The life of a thirty-year old man is changed when an elderly woman offers him money to spend one hour with her. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.95 | ||
| Brun-Lambert, D. | Boys in the band | Two young men leave their native Liverpool to try their luck in London. Soon excess and self destruction threatens their friendship. Loosely based on the story of the English band "The Libertines". |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.75 | ||
| Bucher, A. | Pays à vendre | A detective discovers that German property developers want to buy another piece of land to construct a luxury complex. He must solve the mess and resist the intimidations of a mafia group. Written in a touching, poetical and nonchalant style. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.45 | ||
| Bugul, K. | La pièce d'or | Everyone is trying to find his place in today's Africa from the corrupt elite to the poor man on the street. Ba'Moïse is no different as he searches for his "piece of gold". |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.50 | ||
| Buisson, L. | Le perfectionniste | The destructive relationship between a protective brother and a recently widowed sister. |
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| Burgonde, J. | La Nostalgie du fossoyeur | Short stories on the theme of death and rebirth. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.75 | ||
| Burnier, M-A. & M. Contat | Sartre, roman | In the wake of the recent film of Sartre's life, … now read the novel! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.95 | ||
| Camus, D. | Morgennes | After David Camus’ stellar debut with "Les chevaliers du royaume", he continues his breathtaking epic of pageantry and honor in "Morgennes" recounting the character’s journey to restore the stolen cross on which Christ was crucified. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.60 | ||
| Capron, J | Amende honorable | A senator opposing a new reform to the death sentence is assassinated just before he is due to make a final speech. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £25.60 | ||
| Carmona, M-B. | Deux femmes pour un Orient | The end of the Ottoman Empire turns Carla's life in Istanbul upside down. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.60 | ||
| Caro, F. | Figurec | A lazy thirty-something hires a professional extra as his "fiancée'……An enchanting first novel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.15 | ||
| Castillon, C. | Dessous, c'est l'enfer | A novel written with black humour about the incapacity to love, the life of a couple, maternity, intergenerational relationships and old age. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.85 | ||
| Castillon, C. | Insecte | Short stories dealing with mother-daughter relationships. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.20 | ||
| Castro, Catherine, et al. | 11 femmes: 11 nouvelles inédites | Eleven funny, tragic, sensual short stories enlightening the reader on how young women today view femininity. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.95 | ||
| Caudoux, B. | Géographie | An original and sublime text which traces the diversity and path of the inner self. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.30 | ||
| Caujolle, C | Circonstances particulères 2: Souvenirs | Second anthology in the personal series of short stories and texts based on well known photographs. Illustrated in colour. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £27.80 | ||
| Caujolle, C | Circonstances particulieres 1: Histoires | Short stories based on the theme of photography. Second volume also available. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.25 | ||
| Ceccaldi, L. | L'Innocente: récit | Mother of Michel Houellebecq gets her revenge in this autobiographical novel recounting why her son grew apart from her while she sought a new life in Africa, India and the island of La Réunion. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.60 | ||
| Cendrey, J.-Y. | La maison ne fait plus crédit | In his last storming novel, Cendrey unveils his unique style of composing an autobiography about a failed childhood and bitter memories of a family falling apart. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Cérésa, F | Le roman de la Bourgogne | Novel celebrating the Bourgogne region of France. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.60 | ||
| Chalandon, S. | Mon traître | A Parisian leaves for Belfast where he meets Tyrone Meehan who becomes friend, brother and a traitor to him. Prizewinning journalist Sorj Chalandon combines fiction with the struggle in Northern Ireland and the IRA in the 1970s. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.45 | ||
| Chalandon, S. | Une promesse | Prix Medicis 2006. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.50 | ||
| Chamoiseau, P. | Un dimanche au cachot | The latest book from Patrick Chamoiseau, the bestselling author from Martinique. |
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| Chandernagor, F. | La Voyageuse de nuit | A seemingly unified family disintegrates when matriarch Olga falls ill. |
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| Chapsal, M. | Une balle près du cœur | A woman finds herself confronted with her companion's past lover but is assured that he will return to her… |
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| Chapsal, M. | C'est tout un roman! | Alexandre is an author of romance novels and decides one day to write an essay using his knowledge and experience of love but his book is a flop. Humiliated, he stops writing and takes refuge at his aunt's to take stock on his life as a writer. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.55 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | L'Exclusion | Popular author Chapsal's version of events surrounding her exclusion from the Prix Femina jury in 2006. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £8.10 | ||
| Chapsal, M. | La Femme à l'écharpe | Parisian Mona seems to lead the perfect life with her husband Max…. Portrait of a contemporary woman. |
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| Chapsal, M. | Il vint m'ouvrir la porte | Mathilde is looking for love and meets an unusual couple. |
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| Char, Y. | La main de Dieu | A young girl recalls her years as an adolescent in Lebanon during the war in 1975, the sensuality of first love and a world in collapse. |
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| Chardin, P. | Le méchant vieux temps | School friends meet again after ten years to take stock of their lives. Chardin mixes humour and sensitivity in this well-written novel influenced by Proust. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.95 | ||
| Charef, M. | À bras-le-cœur | Poetic memoir of Algerian immigration in 1960s France. Told through the eyes of a young boy. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.80 | ||
| Charpentier, Y. | Dépêche-toi | A woman leaves for a nomadic, dreamy existence in search of harmony and her driver leads her on his quest for his son taken away from him by his mother. This distinct piece of writing embraces the reader with intimacy and musicality. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.55 | ||
| Chauleur, C. | Plissé soleil | Intimate novel tracing the everyday life of an old couple - she, the victim of Alzheimers; her husband, attentive and generous despite his grief. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.95 | ||
| Clark, P. | Après, Fred Chichin est mort | An intimate novel which oscillates between personal experiences and anecdotes from the media-political world. |
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| Claude, H. | Riches, cruels et fardés | Set in the thick of a storm in Australia, the story tells of the plight of five characters in a luxury hotel. Full of black humour. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.70 | ||
| Claudel, P. | La petite fille de Monsieur Linh | Monsieur is an old man. He leaves his village, which has been devastated by war, with nothing but a small suitcase and his newborn orphaned grand-daughter. |
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| Claudel, P. | Le rapport de Brodeck | Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2007. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt 2007, this novel concerns the eponymous Brodeck, whose job is to write inconsequential reports on the state of the local flora and fauna for the "administration". |
| French: New Fiction Price: £26.75 | ||
| Clément, F. | Grains de beautés: et autres minuties d'un collectionneur de mouches | An experimental baroque novel in which an 18th Century Marquise embarks on a fantastic journey in the company of miniaturist painter Zérène. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £15.75 | ||
| Le Clézio, J.M.G. | Ritournelle de la faim | Winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature 2008, Le Clézio explores French guilt over its wartime past in this novel which revolves around Ethel, a young girl growing up in the French bourgeoisie. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.60 | ||
| Coatalem, J.-L. | Il faut se quitter déjà | Set in Buenos Aires, the narrator, a reporter in his forties, invents a new life for himself to seduce a young and beautiful woman. Claiming to be searching for the last remaining city of the Incas, he ends up becoming lost in his own lies. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.30 | ||
| Cohen, J-M | Le roman des régimes | A novel about dieting! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.60 | ||
| Colin, F. | Le Syndrome Godzilla | The path from childhood to adulthood symbolised by the monster Godzilla… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.25 | ||
| Collectif Inculte | Une Chic Fille | Thirteen authors re-write the life story of Anna Nicole-Smith who became a model for Playboy and sought the attention of rich married men. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.35 | ||
| Colombier Hochberg, A. | Diaporama | Four men and four women whose lives cross paths reveal eight different truths in this funny and poignant novel. |
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| Confiant, R. | Nègre marron: récit | Martinican writer Confiant meditates on the history of the arrival of the first slaves from Africa through to the abolition of slavery and the dawn of the twenty-first century. |
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| Conil, D. | En espérant la guerre | A journalist who dreams of covering big international conflicts, is sent to the south of France to investigate a hold-up which occurred twenty years before. Bitter and tender, sombre and full of hope, this novel explores themes of loyalty and youth. |
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| Constantine, B. | A Mélie, sans mélo | Mélie is sixty two years old and lives alone in the countryside. Her grand-daughter comes for the first time to visit her but the day before her arrival, she learns that she has a health problem… |
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| Cormann, E. | Testament de Vénus, Le | Novel from celebrated playwright Cormann in which a man attempts to retrace his eventful life through the three manuscripts he saves from the rubbish bin. |
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| Cortanze, G. de | De Gaulle en maillot de bain | Tragi-comedy set in post-war France. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £24.80 | ||
| Cossé, L. | Vous n'écrivez plus? | Ten humorous short stories on the theme of writing and forgotten writers. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.95 | ||
| Cosso-Merad, E. | Mon avion, mon roman, mon amour | Full of colours and fantasy, the author recounts the destiny of a young woman who aspires to become a painter. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.80 | ||
| Curiol, C. | Permission | Brilliantly crafted psychological novel. A man is recruited to The Institution, a sinister organisation where imagination is outlawed… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £25.70 | ||
| Curiol, C. | Voix sans issue | A study of amourous obsession. A lonely civil servant pursues the object of her desire in a nocturnal Paris. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £8.60 | ||
| Cusset, C. | Un brillant avenir | In 1958, a young Romanian woman runs away with a man and marries him against the will of her parents. She obtains American nationality and soon finds herself confronted with her French daughter-in-law and her husband's depression. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £23.95 | ||
| D'Arvor, O. P. | Le voyage du fils | A sensitive, poetic Chinese man in his twenties spends some time in Paris to collect his mothers ashes where she threw herself from a window to escape from the police. A story about solitude, desire, intense meetings and love. |
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| Dabit, E. | Train de vies | Twelve stories published months before the death of Eugène Dabit in 1936 containing a series of portraits of simple men with dramatic destinies. Includes very personal pages about his youth during the war. "Train de Vies" is followed by "Velazquez." |
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| Daeninckx, D. | Camarades de classe | A story told with accuracy and humanity about a generation marked by the upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s |
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| Daeninckx, D. | Histoire et faux-semblants | A collection of four novels in which appearances are deceiving. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £10.25 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Itinéraire d'un salaud ordinaire | The itinerary of Clément Duprest, an apolitical policeman, loyal to the Vichy regime… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £17.50 | ||
| Dallet, J-M. | Pontmaudit ou les chemins de la haute mer | A swashbuckler. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.10 | ||
| Dantec, M.G. | Artefact | Thriller. Three narratives involving the collapse of two American skyscrapers, a mysterious briefcase, and a killer on the loose, merge into one gripping story. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £28.65 | ||
| Dantzig, C. | Je m'appelle François | François is a man of mystery traveling all over the world under different identities. |
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| Daoud, Z. | Les petits-enfants de Zaynab | A staggering novel which tells the destiny of Zaynab, born in 1039 of exceptional beauty and intelligence and who, at nineteen years old meets her third husband who dreams of founding a fortress. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.30 | ||
| Darcel, F. | L'Ennemi de la chance | Thriller set in atmospheric Lisbon. |
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| Darley, E. | Le Bonheur | A beautiful meditation on migration. Different voices, often clandestine, give their thoughts on the "Eldorado" they believe to be France. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.40 | ||
| Darrieussecq, M. | Le pays | A young woman returns to her roots in the Basque country. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.55 | ||
| Darrieussecq, M. | Tom est mort | Bestseller A mother tells the life story of her dead son from his birth to his premature death at four years old. Shortlisted for both the Prix Fémina and the Prix Goncourt this year. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.65 | ||
| de Beaucé, T. | L'Absent de Marrakech | The narrator takes a long walk through the chaos and memories that make up Marrakesh. |
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| Declerck, P. | Socrate dans la nuit | A philosophical and anthropological text about a man who has an inoperable but benign brain tumour. Based on the author's personal experience. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.40 | ||
| Dédéyan, M. | L'Aigle de Constantinople | Andronic and Manuel are cousins and share beauty, ambition and intelligence. But in April 1143, when Manuel is suddenly called to reign the Byzantine empire, Andronic finds himself in the shadows… |
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| Deforges, R. | Et quand viendra la fin du voyage: 1964-1967 | The long-awaited final volume in the "Bicyclette Bleue" series! |
| French: New Fiction Price: £26.25 | ||
| Del Amo, J.-B. | Une éducation libertine | Set in Paris in 1760, this novel recounts the ascension of the young Gaspard. Prix Laurent Bonelli-Lire & Virgin Megastore 2008. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £21.50 | ||
| Delepierre, P. | Les Gadoues | An idyllic 1960's childhood in the north of France is threatened by memories of the not so distant German Occupation. From the bestselling author of "Fred Hamster et Madame Lilas". |
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| Delerive, P. | Bayou Cruel | After surviving a fire in his restaurant, a man decides to change his life and leaves for Louisiana where he meets a young African woman running a restaurant and raising a child alone. A fast paced thriller. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £22.15 | ||
| Delerm, P. | L'envol, suivi de Panier de fruits | A man discovers a drawing of a strange bird by Folon. The image haunts his thoughts and his dreams. Then, one morning, the man opens his window and takes off… |
| French: New Fiction Price: £3.30 | ||
| Delerm, P. | Ma grand-mère avait les mêmes: les dessours affriolants des petites phrases | Philippe Delerm describes the friendly moments, small aggravations, furtive pleasures, great moments of solitude and wonderments in this collection of phrases. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £12.95 | ||
| Delerm, P. | La Tranchée d'Arenberg et autres voluptés sportives | Mini musings on the theme of sport in inimitable Delerm style. |
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| Delpech, P. | Et je brûlerai ton coeur de pierre | 1936. The famous police investigator Barnabé leads an investigation into an attack against Léon Blum and discovers that his son is a serial killer who holds a deep hatred for him . An original, roaring thriller. |
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| Demessence, T. | Le Pizza du Bon Dieu | Thierry delivers pizzas and falls in love with Élizabeth who ordered one! |
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| Démoulin, N. | Ton nom argentin | Nathalie Démoulin's magnificent writing captures perfectly the fears of a generation through the eyes of her protagonist, Isabèl, a press photographer. |
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| Denis, A. | Le dossier Meyer-Devembre | Strange goings-on in a Parisian apartment block. A famous detective takes on the case. |
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| Denis, S. | Un espion trop parfait | An ex-secret agent travels across Europe in an attempt to track down a well-respected member of the secret service. A dramatic and unexpected ending awaits him! |
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| Depestre, R. | L'œillet ensorcelé et autres nouvelles | Collection of short stories. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £2.50 | ||
| Derey, J-C. | Quand on parle du loup | The mysterious affair of the murder of a gamekeeper in 1940's Berry. |
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| Desbiolles, M. | Les draps du peintre | An exceptional novel recounting the destiny of a painter who is suffering from arthritus. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.95 | ||
| Descamps, D. | L'Apéritif des faibles | After the death of his friend, a young man leaves Marseille to go to Flandres where he spent his childhood. With glimmers of Proust in its evocation of memories and the exuberance of youth, this is a book full of warmth. |
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| Despentes, V. | King Kong théorie | Memoirs of occasional prostitute and controversial author of "Baise-moi". |
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| Despentes, V. | Mordre au travers | Collection of dark stories about women who are heroines in a world rampant with desire, excess love, violence and anger. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £3.30 | ||
| Detambel, R. | Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs | A nun who is a music teacher in a convent causes a scandal when she falls in love with one of her pupils. |
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| Detambel, R. | Pandémonium | A sinister old folks" home long since closed provides the springboard for the uneasy humour of this very readable novel! |
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| Diarra, O. | Vieux lézard | Debut novel from Malian Diarra. A married teacher falls in love with a student half his age. |
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| Diome, F. | Inassouvies, nos vies | A single thirty year old woman passes her time by observing the inhabitants of a block of flats opposite her. Her attention focuses on an old woman who she becomes fond of and a true friendship is born. |
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| Diome, F. | Kétala | From the author of the bestselling "Ventre de l'Atlantique', Kétala deals with the ritual sharing of the departed's belongings. |
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| Diwan, A. | La Fabrication du mensonge | A young girl impulsively answers an advert for staff in a wedding dress shop. First novel. |
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| Diwo, J. | Moi, Milanollo fils de Stradivarius | Exhilarating historical novel on a musical theme from bestselling author of "Les Violons du Roi". |
| French: New Fiction Price: £23.35 | ||
| Djaïdani, R. | Visceral | Edgy novel set in the "banlieue" or troubled suburban estate. |
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| Djavann, C. | Comment peut-on être français? | Roxane arrives in Paris from Iran with only enthusiasm, naivety and the desire to learn French. She starts to write down her experiences as letters to the great 18th century writer Montesquieu…. |
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| Djavann, C. | La muette | BESTSELLER Novel recounting the tragic destiny of a young teenager writing in prison and condemned to death by hanging. Her close relationship with her mute aunt dominates the text; a story which you will not forget. |
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| Djebar, A. | Nulle part dans la maison de mon père | Member of the "Académie française', Algerian writer Djebar evokes the people and places that have shaped her very singular fiction. |
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| Djian, P. | Doggy bag, saison 1 | Bestseller. A mysterious woman, two brothers and an earthquake. |
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| Doizelet, S. | Qui est Memory? | A mysterious author writing under three different pseudonyms is tracked down by brother and sister team David and Mary. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.85 | ||
| Donner, C. | Un roi sans lendemain | A script writer researches the mysterious death of Louis XVI's infant son, cruelly "reeducated" as a Republican. Shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot. |
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| Dorion, H. | Le hublot des heures | A collection of metaphysical poems about time. |
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| Doumenc, P. | Un tigre dans la soute | Centred around the world of aviation, Doumenc transports the reader to the edges of the fantastic and demonstrates his gift for originality and imagination. |
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| Drachline, P. | Une si douce patience | Written with a mixture of black humour, sensitivity and elegance, this novel tells of a dying man's final hour. |
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| Dreyfus, A. | Iris, c'est votre bleu | A beautiful collection of poems celebrating the incarnation of time. |
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| Du Boucheron, B. | Chien des os | Historical novel set during the brutal 17th Century conquest of the Atlantic islands by the Spanish. From the author of "Court Serpent". |
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| Du Boucheron, B. | Coup-de-fouet | A young cavalry lieutenant is posted to Paris during the Great War. His hunting skills rival that of another contender for the affections of Aells. A masterful novel blending violence and sensuality. |
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| Dubois, J-P. | Hommes entre eux | Two rivals for the same woman, one living in France and the other in Canada. A snow storm brings a confrontation between the two men. |
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| Dubois, J-P. | Vous plaisantez, monsieur Tanner | Paul Tanner led a quiet existence until he launched an ambitious restoration project. From the best selling author of "Une vie française". |
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| Dubois, J.-P. | Les accommodements raisonnables | A man leaves for Hollywood to re-write the script of a French film, hoping to forget the depression of his wife and his own failures. He soon discovers an artificial universe and meets the younger double of his wife. Tragic and funny. |
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| Duchatelet, C. | Pelles & Râteaux | Like a male version of Bridget Jones, this is a semi-autobiographical story about the eventful life of a 35 year-old single father. |
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| Dufour, H. | Ce que l'océan de dit pas | In the small town of Marennes, little Christine grows up and dreams of becoming a writer, surrounded by her Italian mother, who is a musician, her brother and grandparents. A story full of tenderness and memories. |
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| Dugain, M. | Une exécution ordinaire | In August 2000, a Russian nuclear submarine sinks in the Barents Sea in the Arctic. Vania Altman is one of the few survivors. Inspired by true events, Dugain paints a paranoid portrait of contemporary Russia. |
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| Dupeyron, F. | Le Grand Soir | The ageing painter Gustave Courbet reminisces about his involvement in the Paris Commune. Third novel by acclaimed film maker Dupeyron. |
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| Dupont-Monod, C. | La passion selon Juette | Set in 12th century Belgium, this is the story of reclusive young widow Juette, told against a backdrop of Cathar persecution. |
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| Duran Cohen, I. | Face aux masses | A young fearless girl is employed as an intern in a marketing firm run by a brother and sister and is soon caught up in the conflicts and dissaray of a world of sectarianism. A witty, sharp and ironic text. |
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| Durif, E. | Laisse les hommes pleurer | A prison warden has just lost his job and decides to look for his childhood friend on a farm in La Creuse. Durif creates a warm and human novel - a simple yet powerful story. |
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| Duteurtre, B. | Chemins de fer | Very readable new novel from prizewinning Duteurtre. Florence is a successful Parisian career woman enjoying regular retreats to her country home in the Vosges, until to her disgust, urbanisation starts to creep in… |
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| Echenoz, J. | Courir | Jean Echenoz re-invents with grace, the life of the famous Czech athlete Emil Zatopek. |
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| Echenoz, J. | Ravel | Bestseller Novel retracing the final ten years in the life of the composer Maurice Ravel. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £14.10 | ||
| Edem | Port-Mélo | Moving first novel by this Togoan writer. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £13.90 | ||
| Effa, G-P. | À la vitesse d'un baiser sur la peau | A young African student in Alsace is the lover of Hilda, an older woman whose conservative mother is against their liaison. |
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| Effa, G.-P. | Nous, enfants de la tradition | At least one in two African immigrants send three quarters of their salary to their family who remain on the continent. The author addresses this issue when an African man is sent to France for his studies, leading to the breakdown of his marriage. |
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| Efoui, Kossi | Solo d'un revenant | The narrator returns to his country after ten years of massacres. He seeks to find out why his friend Mozaya died and goes in search of a man named Asafo Johnson. |
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| Egloff, J. | L'homme que l'on prenait pour un autre | Superbly written, prizewinning author Joel Egloff uses black humour and pathos to depict the disruption caused when people mistake an ordinary man for someone else. His numerous identities lead to a series of mishaps and adventures. |
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| Emmanuel, F. | L'enlacement | When a woman faints at the sight of a painting by Egon Schiele in a museum in Vienna, she develops a strange love affair with a writer who followed her that morning… |
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| Énard, M. | Zone | One night, the son of a French man who took part in the Algerian war takes the train to Rome with a suitcase filled with secrets about his activities within the French intelligence service in the Near East. Like a modern day Iliad. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £25.80 | ||
| Enthoven, J-P. | Dernière femme, La | A story told through studies of 12 celebrated women from Française Sagan to Louise Brook, star of silent cinema. |
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| Ernaux, A. | Les Années | The fascinating memoires of a woman from during the end of the 2nd World War to present day are written in the style of an impersonal autobiography. More intense than Ernaux's other novels this is an important novel which echoes "La deuxième sexe." |
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| Etcherelli, C. | Un mal de chien | After a howling dog keeps the neighbourhood awake at night, writer Annette discovers a network of dog fighting. From the author of the 1960's classic "Élise ou la vraie vie". |
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| Fargues, N. | Beau rôle | A young actor on the brink of stardom takes us with him through his relationships in the showbiz world and troubled waters with his recent lover. |
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| Fédorovsky, V. | Le Roman de l'Orient-Express | Last in the triptych and follow-up to "Le roman de Saint Petersbourg" and "Le roman du Kremlin', a fascinating and magical history of the world's most famous train. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £19.85 | ||
| Fellag | L'Allumeur de rêves berbères | A journalist observes the citizens of Algiers from his balcony… A charming examination of Algerian daily life. |
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| Fellous, C. | Plein été | On holiday in Tunisia, the author is reminded of a childhood spent there in the 1950s. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £20.50 | ||
| Fenwick, P. | Folk | A father of a family constructs a dinosaur in his garden, a guardian of a zoo poses naked to save a couple…a collection of zany and funny stories about people who are all struggling with the question of the meaning of existence. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £18.65 | ||
| Fermine, M. | Tombeau des étoiles | Set in the Savoie region at the end of World War 2, this is a story of love, revenge, resistance and reprisals. |
| French: New Fiction Price: £16.60 | ||
| Fernandez, C. | La Saison rouge | |