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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'There is so much to discover in these stories - both history and food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major new celebration of the...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsene Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes himself too seriously...

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation.In A Man...

'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French...

'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity.' Sunday Times'A deeply human text about the ghosts of identity and decolonization.' Vanity FairNaima has always known that her family came from Algeria - but up until now,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. In 1999 the search to find the actor to play Harry Potter began. Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376219Author Pierre Drieu La RochelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 170g

'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural end. So...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528034Author ColetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861504Author Maylis De KerangalFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422332Author Emmanuel CarrhreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate...

'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE'Historical fiction at its finest. Antoinette Chanel will capture your heart' ANN WEISGARBER,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376707Author Colette ColetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She...

A disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France's postwar trauma A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a whim, and rents a room in a hotel...

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Red is My Heart is a stunning collection of words and images in collaboration with Parisian street artist, Le Sonneur, about how to mend a broken...

Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century's most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation of his masterpiece.One of the most significant...

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Epoque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart ... FIRST in a bewitching new series ...

Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133711Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothingAn Evening Standard 'Best New Book' of 2021'A short, sharp, shock of a novel... beautifully done' Daily Mail'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan' Evening Standard'Jestin evokes adolescent...

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest,...

A young woman wakes in a hospital room. What happened to her and why is a mystery. Is she victim or murderer? The young woman has been badly injured in a fire and has amnesia. But what happened to her? Is she Mi, Micky or Michele, or Do, Dominique? As...

Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene"' The Times Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful - and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself...

Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbelliere, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely...

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their...

First on the Rope - the acclaimed English translation of the French fiction classic Premier de Cordee by Roger Frison-Roche - is a tale about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps in the 1920s and 1930s.An ascent of...

For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Harriet Tyce, Jorn Lier Horst, Fred Vargas and Jean-Patrick Manchette.Early copies available for booksellers and influencers. EBook will be available at the same time as print publication, and will be promoted together...

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers.My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent...

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbours, the Martins. 'A wonderful surprise' L'Express Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a...

This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In."* * *Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is...

Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his whole life upside down. Destined to live forever as an immortal, Noam travels through the centuries in search of the...

I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250043122Author Nicolas BarreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters amidst France's rapid transformation in the '70sThree sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the eldest, dreams of an artist's life in Paris; Helene,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985262464Author Marty AlmquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Cafe Au LaitPublisher Cafe Au LaitWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...