The second volume in the Boutiques series, beautifully produced - as always - by The Mainstone Press. With an essay by a fairground supremo and Sorbonne professor Pascal Jacob; captions by A... read more
The author's investigation of her family's history and her own identity was sparked by the arrival of an anonymous postcard bearing four names that arrived over forty years after those four ... read more
From the author of the breathtaking At Night All Blood is Black (winner of the International Booker Prize in 2021), this novel is another marvel. Set in C18th France and Africa, its protagon... read more
The season's most arresting title? Ambitious and witty, this novel about a student researching rural life in the marshlands of western France is another fruit of Enard's wildly leaping imag... read more
This influential figure in pre-WW1 Paris has become much better known in recent years - as is evident from this fine Yale publication and the exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphi... read more
The authors took Madame de Pompadour's maiden name for their design company, inspired by their restoration projects and their recreation of C18th domino papers. Their work is enchanting and ... read more
A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.
A young farm lad falls asleep in a boat and drifts down the river: a week of liberated, pastoral bliss ensues. First published in 1945, this is the first new translation since the 1950s. By ... read more
Louis XV's astronomer sails the seas to observe the transit of Venus; two and half centuries later his telescope draws a man to a woman. A new novel by the author of other, gently off-beat r... read more
Leadership and moral compromise in Occupied France, seen through the lens of P?tain's trial in 1945. Julian Jackson is superb on the French Occupation and his biography of de Gaulle was magi... read more
In less than a month in 1870, the Prussian army invaded France, captured Napoleon III and changed the balance of world power. Its success had far-reaching effects...