A beguiling work of auto-fiction - a juggling act that Carrère refined in Limonov, The Kingdom etc. He begins a ten-day retreat, lit by the sun of literary success, but desperate matters in... read more
Ruthlessly funny memoir of working front of house: the great deception of ease, of luxe, calme et volupte , of lamplight and conversation, while, behind the swing doors, rages a very differe... read more
A fictional portrait of the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - pilot, aristocrat and author of Le Petit Prince. Iturbe's last novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, was a huge success.
Three dark-skinned bodies wash up on the beach of a Mediterranean island. The attempts of the islanders to hush up the implications are upset by the arrival of a detective, who unpicks their... read more
This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but ... read more
A Japanese man tries to form a relationship with his half-French child, who has grown up on the other side of the world. The other side of the story told in A Single Rose, this nevertheless ... read more
A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more
After graduating in Germany in 1939, FH was sent as an archivist to Paris, where he documented ordinary life throughout the war. He vanished in Berlin in 1945 and this is the first publicati... read more