A deft and witty excursion to Paris for coffee with Sartre, de Beauvoir et alia by Sarah Bakewell; a winter and spring on the shores of Lake Baikal with only a portable library and ice – and Tesson himself – for company; two great classics of French fiction that need no introduction and two contemporary novels – a ‘coming of age’ story set in the Languedoc by a young English novelist, and Enard’s most recently translated book. Enard has won almost every prize there is; in this historical novel he conjures an invitation to Michelangelo from the Sultan Bajazet in Istanbul to build him a bridge across the Golden Horn…

This bundle includes:

Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being & Apricot Cocktails, Sarah Bakewell
Nightingale, Marina Kemp
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, Mathias Énard

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