Amélie Nothomb was born in Japan of Belgian parents in 1967. She lives in Paris. Since her debut on the French literary scene, she has published a novel a year, every year. Her edgy fiction, unconventional thinking, and public persona have combined to transform her into a worldwide literary sensation. Her books have been translated into over twenty-five languages and been awarded numerous prizes including the French Academy”s 1999 Grand Prix for the Novel, the René-Fallet prize, the Alain-Fournier prize and the Grand Prix Giono in 2008.
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Muriel Barbery: Elegance of the Hedgehog
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly).In an elegant hotel particulier in …
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Jean-Christophe Rufin: Dream Maker
"Rufin offers his readers a return . . . to a time when the wildest dreamer could be a wealthy merchant-Jacques Coeur, the treasurer poet" (Les Echos).After a brilliant career as a trader, …
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Muriel Barbery: Gourmet Rhapsody
A French food critic faces his mortality in an "entertaining [and] witty" novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday).In the heart of Paris, in …
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Fariba Hachtroudi: Man Who Snapped His Fingers
A “fierce literary thriller” about an exiled woman confronting her past as a prisoner of a repressive theocracy (Kirkus Reviews). She was known as “Bait 455, ” the most famous …
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Boualem Sansal: 2084
A “sharply satirical” novel about an oppressive religious dictatorship and one man’s discovery of an underground resistance (Library Journal). 2015 Winner of the Le Grand Prix …
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Jean-Christophe Rufin: Checkpoint
A novel of suspense and psychological tension set in the world of international humanitarian aid by a founder of Doctors Without Borders.The four men accompanying Maud, a young French idealist, on an …
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Amelie Nothomb: Strike Your Heart
This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is "a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship" (The Washington Post).One of the Washington …
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Pascale Pujol: Little Culinary Triumphs
“Sexy encounters, irreverent humor, and subtle twists keep up the pace of this quirky tale about a variety of French appetites” (Publishers Weekly). Sandrine works as a functionary in an …
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Anna Gavalda: Cracks in Our Armor
By the international bestselling author of Billie: These seven short stories exploring modern French life are “a raw and tender ode to the human spirit” (Booklist). Critically …
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Laurent Gaude: Hear Our Defeats
A "propulsive" historical novel about the battles-won, lost, and ongoing-that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review).Assem, a French intelligence …
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Tonino Benacquista: Thursday Night Men
Three friends meet weekly to commiserate over romantic disasters in “a marvelous novel—light, funny and genuine, while still being quite emotional” (Kirkus Reviews). Every …
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Concerto to the Memory of an Angel
Stories from the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World, "a prodigious storyteller with a style both elegant and assured" (Les Echos).In this collection’s opening story, …
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Anna Gavalda: French Leave
Four adult siblings reconnect on a brief adventure through the Loire Valley in this international-bestselling novel by the beloved French author of Billie. Simon and his two sisters, Garance …
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Most Beautiful Book in the World
The international bestselling story collection. “Truth and beauty are here brought together with all the visual beauty and power of a major literary work” (Lire Magazine, France). A cast …
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Jean-Christophe Rufin: Checkpoint
Suspense and tense interpersonal dynamics characterize this taut bestselling novel set in the world of international humanitarian aid by Jean-Christophe Rufin, a co-founder of Doctors Without …
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Boualem Sansal: 2084: The End of the World
A tribute to George Orwell’s 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds. It is the year 2084. In the kingdom of Abistan named messenger of the god Yolah citizens submit to a …
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Fariba Hachtroudi: Man Who Snapped His Fingers
Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, French-Iranian author Hachtroudi’s English-language debut explores themes as old as time: the crushing effects of totalitarianism and the infinite power …
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Amelie Nothomb: Petronille
Mathilde is twenty-four. She has abandoned her studies in art history in lieu of a menial job and lives in a house she shares with twin sisters. One day she forgets her bag in a cafe and a week later …
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Joanna Gruda: Revolution Baby
Julek has assumed countless different identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in an orphanage (despite having two mothers), and he …
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Jean-Christophe Rufin: Dream Maker
Based on the true story of Jacques Coeur, The Dream Maker recounts the life and times of a Steve Jobs of the Middle Ages. Born to a modest fur trader, Coeur rose to become the King of France’s …
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Laurence Cosse: Bitter Almonds
From the author of A Novel Bookstore comes this delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary Paris. Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that …
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Tonino Benacquista: Thursday Night Men
Every Thursday night at 7 o’clock a group of men meet in Paris. They are from different backgrounds and of varying ages; each one’s life, his story, his situation, is unique. What unites this unusual …
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Laurence Cosse: Novel Bookstore
Ivan, a one-time world traveler, and Francesca, a ravishing Italian heiress, are the owners of a bookstore that is anything but ordinary. Rebelling against the business of bestsellers and in search …
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Concerto to the Memory of an Angel
The title story is the tale of two friends with very different personalities-one competitive and aggressive, the other kind and disinterested. They are confronted with circumstances that lead to a …
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Woman with the Bouquet
In his new collection of stories, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World, probes the paradox that the events that shape our lives are often the stuff of dreams, yet …
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Most Beautiful Book in the World
One of Europe’s most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to …
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Amelie Nothomb: Strike Your Heart
The most destructive mechanisms of the soul, laid bare. Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial hometown and is dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and …
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Sandrine Collette: Nothing But Dust
A primal tale of cruelty and redemption The family farm has run to ruin. Rafael’s father has abandoned them. His older brothers, the twins Mauro and Joaquin, blame Rafael for their father’s departure …
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Pascal Pujol: Little Culinary Triumphs
A banquet of a novel, to be savoured chapter by chapter. In a dazzling translation from the French by the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, this heartwarming, droll tale set in the colorful …
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Laurent Gaude: Hear Our Defeats
Timely and essential, Hear Our Defeats is a novel about the battles that define us, the battles lost, won, and those still being fought. A French intelligence officer is tasked with tracking down a …
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Anna Gavalda: Cracks in Our Armour
In this collection of seven short stories, all written in the first person, Anna Gavalda has created an ode to those who confront their vulnerabilities and admit their weaknesses. These tales …
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Jean Teulé: The Hurlyburly’s Husband
The hilarious, bawdy and touching story of Madame de Montespan’s husband who could not give her up.
‘The writing is beautiful, witty, grisly and moving, and reeks of authenticity’ Sunday Tele …
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Hélène Grémillon: The Confidant
This ‘impressive debut’ [The Independent] tells the story of an unlikely friendship and a child born on the cusp of World War Two.
‘A gripping account of both doomed love and wartime France’ …
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Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The international publishing sensation, with sales of over 10 million copies worldwide, and shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
‘Resistance is futile … you might as well buy it …
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Jean-Philippe Blondel: 6:41 to Paris
After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a “suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). …
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Alison Anderson & Kevin Meethan: Changing Consumer
In a world undergoing rapid change, this essential collection discusses why consumption has become so important, and what role, if any, it plays in underpinning social, economic and political …
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Sophie Divry: Madame Bovary of the Suburbs
The story of a woman’s life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one …
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Jo l Dicker: Baltimore Boys
NOVEMBER 24, 2004The day of the tragedy. The end of a brotherhood.The Baltimore Boys. The Goldman Gang. That was what they called Marcus Goldman and his cousins Woody and Hillel. Three brilliant …
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Chochana Boukhobza: Third Day
A leading Israeli musician and her prot g return to Jerusalem for three days to perform with the Philharmonic Orchestra. Both women – one a gifted young cellist, one a Holocaust survivor saved by her …
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Claudie Gallay: In the Gold of Time
Set between Normandy and Arizona, In the Gold of Time is a seductive tale of silences and dark, half-revealed secrets, and a haunting elegy for innocence lost in a lost world. A young father holidays …
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Alison Anderson & Kevin Meethan: Changing Consumer
The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over …
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Alison Anderson & Kevin Meethan: Changing Consumer
The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over …
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Alison Anderson: Media, Culture And The Environment
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within …
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Alison Anderson: Media, Culture And The Environment
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within …
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Bernard Minier: Frozen Dead
One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead’Great storytelling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not …
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George M Mohay: Computer And Intrusion Forensics
A comprehensive and broad introduction to computer and intrusion forensics, this practical book helps you master the tools, techniques and underlying concepts you need to know, covering the areas of …
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Claudie Gallay: Breakers
In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy’s coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for some deep sorrow, and spends her …
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Anna Gavalda: Consolation
An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.Charles Balanda is …
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Alison Anderson: Media Culture & Environ. Co-P
First Published in 1997. This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and …
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Skya Abbate: Media Culture & Environ. Co-P
First Published in 1997. This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and …
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Alessandro Baricco: Young Bride
A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this "luminous and alarming lesson on desire" by the international-bestselling author (La Stampa, Italy).A young woman is promised to …
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Julia Kerninon: My Devotion
Winner of the 2018 Feneon Literary Prize A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. Helen and Franck, both born into …
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Sandrine Collette: Just After the Wave
A post-apocalyptic tale of environmental disaster and impossible choices OVER 30, 000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE"A wrenching exploration of the consequences of survival." Kirkus Reviews"An …
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Muriel Barbery: A Strange Country
From the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, A Strange Country, the sequel to The Life of Elves and described as a ‘strange and poetic fantasy similar to the work of Tol …
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Julia Kerninon: My Devotion
“An ambiguous relationship is turned inside out in this intensely vivid novel . . . Kerninon’s novel charms and unsettles to an equal degree.” —Kirkus Reviews …
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Amélie Nothomb: Thirst
In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus.
In a first-person vo …
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Laurent Gaude: Salina
A timeless story between foundational tale and myth When Salina dies, it falls to her youngest son to tell her story, a story of violence and suffering, vengeance and passion. Exiled three times, the …
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Amelie Nothomb: Thirst
The Gospel according to Amelie Jesus is perhaps the most universally known figure in the Western world, yet he remains one of the most obscure. In her reinterpretation of the story of the Passion and …
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Benedicte Belpois: Suiza
A powerful story of dysfunctional love Tomas is a wealthy farmer, rough and taciturn, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees he grows under the Galician sun. When he’s diagnosed with lung …
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Muriel Barbery: A Single Rose
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman’s journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.
Rose has just …
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Laurent Gaudé: Salina
Who will tell the tale of Salina, the mother of three sons, the woman with three exiles, the abandoned child with salty tears? She was taken in by Mamambala and raised as her daughter in a clan that …
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Bénédicte Belpois: Suiza
How transformative can love actually be?
Across the Galician countryside, where there are just as many rain-soaked days as not, villagers face hardships armed with hope and solidarity. Tomás is a s …
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Muriel Barbery: The Writer’s Cats
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes this delightful, delicate tale that pays tribute to the poetry of the everyday, to Japanese philosophy, and to the ingenuity and sar …
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Alison Anderson: Summer Guest
The translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Alison Anderson, delivers a remarkable literary novel-with a stunning conclusion-inspired by historical events, in which a diary weaves together the …
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Jérôme Ferrari: In His Own Image
From Goncourt Prize-winning author Jérôme Ferrari, a bewitching story of passion, death, and love, and a powerful reflection on the ambiguous relationship between art and reality
Born in a small to …
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Jean-Christophe Rufin: The Hanged Man of Conakry
Something has got Aurel Timescu’s attention: an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime. A vacationer has been found hanged. And it is a crime that will go unpunished if Aurel isn’t ready for the fi …
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Sandrine Collette: The Forests
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Winner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, a powerful novel about a man’s desperate quest to bring new life to a desolate world.
Nobody wanted Corentin. …
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Jerome Ferrari: In His Own Image
A novel about passion, death, and the ambiguous relationship between art and reality Antonia grows up in rural Corsica, a place of deeply-rooted traditions and strong family ties. When she’s …
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Sandrine Collette: Forests
A man’s quest to bring new life to a desolate world"In this radiantly beautiful book, Sandrine Collette achieves a perfect balance between horror and beauty, finding poetry even in the …
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: All Your Children, Scattered
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PRIX ÉTHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE
Beata Umuby …
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Veronique Olmi: Daughters Beyond Command
An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters amidst France’s rapid transformation in the '70s Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. …
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Véronique Olmi: Daughters Beyond Command
An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters during a decade of radical societal transformation
Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, …
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Amélie Nothomb: Tokyo Fiancée
“Why must pleasure always have a price? And why must one always pay for sensual delight with the loss of original lightness?”
Amélie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs t …
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: All Your Children, Scattered
"Timeless, vivid and utterly essential." Fergal Keane, author of The Madness AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY THE TUTSI GENOCIDEBlanche returns to Rwanda …
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Amélie Nothomb: First Blood
WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023
A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father, who died of Covid relat …
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Akira Mizubayashi: Fractured Soul
Awarded the Prix des libraires by Frances booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring ones faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by …
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Jean-Philippe Blondel: Café Unfiltered
‘Finely drawn . . . charming and engrossing.” —Suzanne Vega, singer-songwriter At a classic café in the French provinces, anonymity, chance encounters, and traumatic pasts collide against the m …
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Laurent Gaude: Our Europe
A history of Europe like you’ve never read before. "For some time now, Europe seems to have forgotten it is the daughter of epics and utopia. It has been drained by its inability to remind its …
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Delphine Vigan: Kids Run the Show
A cautionary tale for a world in which social media has shattered the boundaries of intimacy.
The first time that Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara’s sense of authority, and for her part, …
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Delphine de Vigan: Kids Run the Show
"Social commentary meets thriller in Delphine de Vigan’s smart novel, which explores the frightening phenomenon of the 'kidfluencer'" The Telegraph (5 stars)The first time that …
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Muriel Barbery: One Hour of Fervor
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe’s most brill …
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: The Silence of the Choir
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024
FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MOST SECRET MEMORY OF MEN
A polyphonic tale of immigration and community by “the most promi …
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Muriel Barbery: One Hour of Fervour
LONGLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT 2022
‘Beguiling’ Daily Mail
From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man’s promise to keep a secret that may hold …
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