Salammbo Digital imprint: 8 books

The first work available in English translation by the major French writer, Regis Jauffret, is a dialogue between the narrator and a young woman who has been suicided - also once his lover. Through laughter, tears, derision and madness, they tell of the bond beyond loneliness and of love that defeats...

Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'.

Phoenix, Arizona. 1962. JFK has been elected and the Cuban Missile Crisis shakes the United States. Fond of vast spaces, Scott Hatford is a young dreamer who treasures short moments of grace with a loving mother, and tries to escape the violence of a broken father returned from the war. One October...

Following his bestseller The Last Days of Stefan Zweig (2013), the new play by Laurent Seksik evokes the last three years of Amedeo Modigliani's life until his first success in London; his relationships with his lover Jeanne Hebuterne, with her disapproving and overbearing mother Eudoxie, and his art dealer Leopold Zborowski.

Inspired by a tragic event - the murder of banker Edouard Stern - Regis Jauffret imagines how the story unfolds in the mind of the murderess. She had met the banker at an exclusive business dinner: together with other call girls, she was the dessert. Their love was based on sadomasochistic games,...

When on a summer evening, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves went for a walk with his granddaughter, he was immediately assaulted by her questions: 'How big is the Universe? How far are the stars? Are there other universes like ours?'. This little book is the result of their discussion - a very clear and...

Sam Olyphant is a big man - strong, gargantuan, heavily muscled. His older brother Alex is even bigger. They're both handsome, successful and think they have absolute control of their lives. But as children of alcoholic parents who abandoned them to be brought up in care homes, they remember intensely...

New York, early twenty-first century. Once, they were famous and their bodies were powerful. They were Mister Fantastic, Batman, Mystique, Superman... Now they know the pains of ageing and regret. And as an obscure conspiracy is threatening their lives, making them even more vulnerable, they live...