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Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale

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Four sparkling nineteenth century tales of Parisian high society and rural life, from the father...

The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters

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A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the...

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

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A beautiful hardback edition of Flaubert's classic novel, with an embossed cover, gold-edged pages...

A Sunday in the Pool at Kigali

A Sunday in the Pool at Kigali

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The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali...

Remembrance of Things Past : 1

Remembrance of Things Past : 1

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"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...

The Hotel Majestic

The Hotel Majestic

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When the strangled body of Mrs Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, is found in...

The Blue Room

The Blue Room

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An adulterous affair leads to a double murder and an inescapable nightmare for Tony in this...

Germinal

Germinal

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Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

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The French Riviera, home to the Beautiful People, and none are more beautiful than Cécile, a...

The Book of Mother

The Book of Mother

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Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

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I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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