From a Bookshelf nearby
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SM's first novel, published here for the first time, takes place in a school for girls - a microcosm that foreshadows the Rwandan genocide fifteen years later. The author's light touch is an... read more
Our Lady of the Nile
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Blaise Pascal famously said that 'all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone". In 1790 a young French aristocrat living in Turin is confined to a ... read more
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An elderly woman in a home is losing her power of speech: a therapist delicately helps her to unburden herself of a secret... The dark horse of new French fiction.
Gratitude
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Exuberant, foul, clever novel in which 'Villalobos' is kidnapped by a thug who wants him to persuade the daughter of a corrupt politician to fall in love with him.
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
Paperback £11.99