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Louise de la Balliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The...

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its...

Author: Pierre Lemaitre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 "Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique "A great success" - La Croix April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs naked down the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the glittering and treacherous heart of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe fifth installment in Maurice Druon's acclaimed historical fiction series The Accursed Kings, The She-Wolf of France chronicles the treacherous rise of...

'In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real-life collaboration during the Second World War' - New Yorker Best Books of the Year In a grand...

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M....

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. Once...

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. Once...

A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD * 'Perfection ... this is a story about family, friendship, love, and sacrifice ... with a big dose of jazz! I loved...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...

"Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique"A great success" - La CroixApril, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of feminism and Marxism, Sisters or Citizens? presents a groundbreaking examination of the fraught and often contradictory relationship between the French...

A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...

'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young:...

What does it mean to be French? Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A flaneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing...

Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with...

'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young:...

Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who...

From the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun. In the late autumn of...

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Fox has a pet mouse. Florence wishes she had one too.She crosses her fingers. Because who knows what makes wishes come true?Based in the Byron Bay hinterland, Zanni Louise is...

EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl...

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Turn your home into a chic French brasserie with help from France's acclaimed La Nouvelle Garde. With a menu for each day of the week broken into breakfast and dinner...

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From James Beard Book Award finalist Rebekah Peppler: The definitive guide to the food, drink, and lifestyle of southeastern France, featuring 100 recipes that reflect the simple, seasonal, and multicultural...

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'Addictive' Stylist 'Sultry' Elle 'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail 'Sizzling' Esquire Summer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the...

Already acclaimed as a classic, this is the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams **AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II -a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under...

From the bestselling author of The Red Notebook When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's...

Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the...

Author: Rene J. DubosBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1950Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded cloth. This compelling biography, Louis Pasteur:...

A generously stocked box drawing from Mills & Boon's Modern, Medical, Amore, and Love Inspired lines alongside mainstream women's fiction — Jackie Collins's Lucky Santangelo, Dorothy Koomson's Sunday Times bestselling...

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and...

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...