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The Child Who by Jeanne Benameur
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In an anonymous French village a child loves to wander a forest where his mother may have disappeared. His father is speechless with anger; his grandmother is concealing her own story.Book... -
Portrait Tales by Jean Fremon 9781739778330
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'Portrait Tales offers a compelling series of behind-the-scenes stories about both well-known and little-known masterly portraits from world art history and, therefore, about the famous or unduly... -
Celina Catherine Axelrad 9781739778378
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In the late 1850s, Célina, aged fifteen, born into poverty, takes up work as a chambermaid for the Victor Hugo family living in exile in Guernsey. There she encounters the delicate balance between... -
The White Flower Charlotte Beeston 9781739778385
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In contemporary and Edwardian London, two women are grieving the loss of a loved one. Stella, turning thirty, is increasingly isolated after her mother died of cancer; Julia, surrounded by... -
May the Tigris Grieve for You by Emilienne Malfatto 9781838490492
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The young woman knows her fate is sealed. In crystalline prose May the Tigris Grieve for You enters the... -
No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes and in the troubling intimacy of public transport post-Charlie Hebdo attacks, Lauren Elkin's diary of a year on a Parisian bus pays homage to Georges... -
Villa Wintrebert by Penelope Curtis 9781068433870
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In Banyuls-sur-Mer, French Catalonia, the Villa Wintrebert turns its back on passers-by and looks instead down the length of its enormously long, tropical garden. Renamed after the pioneering... -
Absence by Lucie Paye 9781739778316
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58A woman addresses letters to an absent loved one while in the apartment opposite hers, a mysterious female figure keeps on appearing under a landscape painter's brush. Directing her reader and... -
Down with the Poor! by Shumona Sinha 9781838490461
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an... -
We Still Have the Telephone by Erica Van Horn 9781739778309
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Assembling fragments of past and present Erica Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. In this mosaic portrait of... -
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal 9781838490447
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK 2023; A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023; A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; On the Trans-Siberian Railway a desperate... -
Poetics of Work by Noemi Lefebvre 9781838014131
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A state of emergency has broken out in 'the good city of Lyon', and protestors and police clash in the streets. At the job centre, there are few job opportunities for poets going around so our poet... -
This Tilting World by Colette Fellous 9781999331801
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.41Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia: on the night after the terrorist attack killing thirty-eight tourists on the nearby beach of Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea, and attempts to take stock. Personal... -
Selfies by Sylvie Weil
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, the niece of French philosopher Simone Weil, also daughter of one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th c., gives a... -
To Rest Our Minds And Bodies by Harriet Armstrong 9781739778361
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In her final year of a degree in psychology, and struggling to relate to the world around her and find her place within it, a young woman drifts from lectures on gifts, vision, the history of global... -
The Governesses by Anne Serre 9780993009396
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.92In a large country house, shut off from the world within a gated garden, three young women responsible for the education of a group of little boys are hanging paper lanterns for a party. Their... -
The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened... -
Nativity by Jean Fremon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Studded with five gouache drawings by Louise Bourgeois, this erudite, witty fable by the acclaimed author of Now, Now, Louison (2018) considers the ambiguous figure of the baby Jesus and its... -
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Fremon 9780993009389
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Progressing by image and word associations, Fremon evokes Bourgeois's history and inner life, bringing a sense of fascinating and moving proximity to the internationally renowned artist... The art... -
Blue Self-Portrait by Noemi Lefebvre 9780993009327
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait, flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters... -
A Respectable Occupation Julia Kerninon 9781999331818
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,' Hemingway famously said. Julia Kerninon, one of France's most acclaimed young novelists, tells an altogether different story in a... -
Exposition by Nathalie Leger 9781999331832
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Everything can be exhibited: trinkets from the Second French Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her extravagance and her pitiful... -
The Fool and Other Moral Tales by Anne Serre 9781838014155
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre - author of the celebrated Governesses - come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales. 'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is... -
The white dress by Nathalie Leger 9781999331887
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58On 8 March 2008 the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca set out to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in a wedding dress, documented with a video camera. On 31 March her body was found in woods on... -
French Cooking for One Michèle Roberts 9781068661716
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is a personal and quirky take on Edouard de Pomiane's classic. With over 160 ... -
a grammar of the world Jeanne Benameur 9781068300110
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A slim, emotionally and thematically rich book of poetry, a grammar of the world is Les Fugitives' first poetry publication and Jeanne Benameur's second book published in English, offering a new and... -
Wilderness of Mirrors Olufemi Terry 9781068433856
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07To satisfy his father's request that he rescue his drifting cousin, Emil - a young Creole from a wealthy background - sets aside his medical studies to move in with his working-class relatives in the... -
French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Friendship Michele Roberts 9781068433832
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Friendship has its own distinctive seasons, constantly changing and evolving, just as the years revolve. Cooking for a friend, you can show your affection in a direct, practical way. Composing a menu... -
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger 9780993009303
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden's 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece... -
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi 9780993009341
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.75'"One day we wake up and the future has disappeared." So begins adult life in Troumaron, a run-down area of Port-Louis, in Mauritius. But Devi's young protagonists resist this erasure; boldest... -
Blackout Yann Chateigné Tytelman 9781068300158
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'It all started with a letter to my father. It had been about ten years since his death, and I suddenly felt like writing to him about the silence, his silence, the silence between us. It started in...