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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800319431 | ISBN 10: 1800319436
Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once loved before Alzheimer’s takes his memories of her. Elise, his estranged daughter, moves in to take care of him. She still blames him for the tragic los ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857054913 | ISBN 10: 0857054910
"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me" Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408851951 | ISBN 10: 1408851954
In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the uniq ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432
'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848875418 | ISBN 10: 184887541x
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grow ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846689413 | ISBN 10: 1846689414
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199579808 | ISBN 10: 0199579806
Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511885 | ISBN 10: 0099511886
When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straigh ... more
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