France

Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the...

The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of...

In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews-pillars of an embattled community-invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed...

At last Horne's great trilogy of works on French history are published together. The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on...

The recipe for a perfect summer... Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students Step 2: Add in a handsome host Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef Step...

From the caricatures of Honore Daumier, to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, the puns of the Dadas, the videos of Dali, to the works of John Baldessari and Marcel Broodthaers,...

This legendary address-13 rue de la Paix-evokes the very origins of Cartier. It was the cradle of the Cartier legend, where Louis Cartier, and later Jeanne Toussaint, invented the House's...

In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during...

Arguably the most stylish city in the world, Paris has long been known for its sleek, sophisticated interiors. This inspiring volume takes us on a tour of the French capital's...

Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...

Ines de la Fressange's personal style is chic yet relaxed in every situation. While a navy-and- white striped nautical top with slim, cropped jeans and flats is a classic French...

Go Slow France is the third book in Sawday's hugely successful Go Slow series. Discover 47 of France's most exquisite ch?teaux, B&Bs and hotels chosen as places to 'go slow'....

Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his significance for dance theatre...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...

In the original French, this book is a practical guide to social living, good manners and etiquette in France and for the French. But this book on the art of...

A NEW SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL PAPERBACK CLASSICS FROM DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN WRITERS, TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING Green accompanies the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital,...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...

The author of Villa Decor and French by Design celebrates the Old World in New World decor by presenting the flare and pomp of French style through breathtaking photographs of...

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...

Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather...

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944 ) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II-a triumph achieved only through...

This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the...

An enigmatic island of towering mountains, timeless villages and chic seaside resorts, Corsica more than lives up to its moniker of the "Island of Beauty". Make the most of your...

When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals...

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one...

'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David Thewlis is a fabulous writer' ANNA BAILEY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TALL BONES...

Charting the adventures of affable yet bumbling Nigel, looking for a place to renovate in the deepest Ardeche, this compelling, original and slightly bonkers tale sees him first foray to...

Surrounded by the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Bay of Biscay to the south, Brittany is a picturesque...

Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures required by the process ease the subjects into detaching themselves...

In the new novel from France's bestselling crime writer, Inspector Adamsberg investigates a series of strange murders linked to a secretive society *Featured in The Times top ten crime novels...

Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover...

In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings , and her...

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...

Sometimes making history means breaking some rules... Don't miss the powerful new historical fiction novel Inspired by the incredible true story of Althea Gibson, the first Black athlete to win...

'Five-star turbo-charged, non-stop action thriller... It reads like a movie reel... Needs to be on every thrill seeker's reading list' NetGalley review Don't miss the next instalment of the Joe...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

From Rachel Kushner comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **INSTANT NEW YORK...

Almost twenty years after French Odyssey, which sold 280,000 copies, Rick returns to his beloved France to discover real, simple French cooking, distilled into this collection of 120 brand-new delicious...

Submission is the highly-anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites- Marine Le Pen of...

This summer, meet Sadie Smith- seductive, cunning and going undercover - the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller This summer, meet Sadie Smith- seductive, cunning and going undercover -...

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. The story begins in Moscow...

The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own... This is the story of an old English manor house by the...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...