"The most blackly humourous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature..." London Review...
The Reprieve
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich...
Iron in the Soul
The third part of Sartre's trilogy, Roads to Freedom. June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the...
Fergus of Galloway, Knight of King Arthur
The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of...
Femme Fatale
Four sparkling nineteenth century tales of Parisian high society and rural life, from the father...
The Counterfeiters
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the...
Madame Bovary
A beautiful hardback edition of Flaubert's classic novel, with an embossed cover, gold-edged pages...
A Sunday in the Pool at Kigali
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali...
Remembrance of Things Past : 1
"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...
The Hotel Majestic
When the strangled body of Mrs Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, is found in...
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