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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the Penguin Classics...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
Author: Jean Edward Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning...
The Outsider
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the...
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Author: Maurice Leblanc Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. The inspiration for the new Netflix series,Lupin, starring...
Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
Candide, or Optimism
Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...
Emigres: French Words That Turned English
Author: Richard Scholar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as...
The Fall
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and...
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He had used charm and...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 In the Trenches of Hell In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in...
The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published...
L'art de la Liste: Simplify, organise and enrich your life
Author: Dominique Loreau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Perfect for fans of Marie Kondo' Publishers Weekly DISCOVER THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF LISTS IN THIS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The...
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author: Stephen Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke,...
This is Kandinsky
Author: Annabel Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...
The Conquest of Gaul
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
Napoleon's Last Island
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author: Thomas De Quincey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of...
Bel-ami
Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...
Selected Poems
Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe
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Author, MR William I Hitchcock (University of Virginia) Format, Microfilm Number of Pages, 454 American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power
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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors
Format: Hardback, 270mm x 220mm, 910g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague...
Matisse: Life & spirit: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Author: Aurelie VerdierFormat: Hardback, 215mm x 270mm, 1380g, 264 pagesPublished: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2021Spanning six decades of the artist's work, Matisse: life & spirit presentsan extraordinary...
Daniel Buren. CRISS-CROSS
Author: Helen GamstFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2460g, 448 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2023This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...
Khamsa khamsa khamsa
Author: Julia GatFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 300mm, 200g, 48 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2022Khamsa, the number five in Arabic, a reference to the five fingers of the hand, is repeated...
France: A Short History
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 500g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its...
Fred (Japanese edition)
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Author: Vincent MeylanFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2120g, 256 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2023This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he...
Fred (Korean edition)
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Author: Vincent MeylanFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2120g, 256 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2023This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986
Author: Christophe AvertyFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 2000g, 288 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism....
Renk (Bilingual edition): Always the Sky
Author: David RosenbergFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 1220g, 176 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2022Originally from Brittany, Renk-whose real name is Walig Nicolet-grew up in Rennes in a family of...
Provence Sketchbook
Format: Hardback, 279mm x 244mm, 1030g, 96 pagesPublished: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2009Provence Sketchbook takes the reader through this historically rich region that also boasts some of France's...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...