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The Kites by Romain Gary
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A New York Times Notable Book 2018'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from... -
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!'For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did... -
Life Before Us by Romain Gary
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and... -
A Smoldering Fire: Romain Gary's Memoir by Jane Bonnard 9781480978423
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480978423Author Jane BonnardFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint -
Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow by Ralph Schoolcraft 9780812236460
Booksplease Price: £57.73In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat-a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books... -
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier
Booksplease Price: £14.88For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art... -
Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment by Dr. Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard 9781501356551
Booksplease Price: £102.21Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour? Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment (war camps, prison... -
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores Anne Boston 9780719565472
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Lesley Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide... -
Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut 9781501175091
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.71An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)-shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes-a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple... -
Pietr the Latvian: Inspector Maigret #1 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he... -
The Wilder Shores Of Love by Lesley Blanch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."There have been many women who have followed the... -
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos 9780241954300 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.31Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news... -
Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its... -
Bird in a Cage Frederic Dard 9781782271994
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It felt like the slipknot on a rope round my chest was being tightened without pity Trouble is the last thing Albert needs. Travelling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his... -
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news...