In this poignant memoir, the author interweaves two fascinating stories: his own upbringing as the youngest of nine children of a Kentucky whiskey maker and that of his lover Larry Rose, the only child of German Jews, survivors of...
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was...
Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than...
The daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn’s epic C18th French Revolution trilogy ‘with lashings of lust, love, sacrifice, betrayal and horror’. Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L’Aubespine...
Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciatocaptures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier...
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’. In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in ‘The...
Diane, owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cosy coffee shop turned library in Paris, seems to have the perfect life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, her life is...
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider–brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that...
On Madison Greene’s sixteenth birthday, she inherits a mansion with sinister secrets. Sucked into a nightmare that spans the centuries, she must fight to save the ones she loves. Alexandre is an eighteen-year-old French aristocrat with arrogance and charm....
Paris, 1942. When Amelie Dreyfus hides in her mother’s wardrobe it’s a game; when she comes out it’s a matter of life or death. With her family taken, Amelie has to fend for herself in Nazi-occupied France – she’s...
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