Gallic Books: 70 books

• Three books in one! • Omnibus editions provide opportunity for new readers to discover Garnier – an author much praised for his conciseness, but the slightness of the individual books may have been offputting to some readers • Striking cover design • Critically acclaimed author with high-profile...

• Four books in one! • Omnibus editions provide opportunity for new readers to discover Garnier – an author much praised for his conciseness, but the slightness of the individual books may have been offputting to some readers • Striking cover design • Critically acclaimed author with high-profile...

A quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside-down. A struggling author’s life becomes disconcertingly entangled with the crime novel he’s writing. Vultures circle as a cantankerous retiree falls for his nurse and is confronted by somebody claiming to be his long-lost son.

p>‘Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He’s a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read.’ A. L. Kennedy Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits...

'A beautifully crafted tale of how small loves can grow into the big ones, often quite unexpectedly.’ The Irish Times A prize-winning author's magical realist fable about greed and corruption in Venezuela, Black Sugar gives a fascinating view of the country's social and economic development...

‘The story of France’s anti-Semitism is one much told by historians: it has seldom been written about so powerfully by a novelist.’ The Spectator French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by...

‘Captivating and perversely delightful.’ The Wall Street Journal In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history. ‘People say I am...

"A writer who can understand man wherever he is." The New York Times As a child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. When his family find a home in the city anything seems possible. But colonial Algeria is no place to be ambitious for those of Arab-Berber ethnicity....

A charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years. Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the...

It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull,...

Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains no money, phone or contact information. But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts and jottings reveals a person that Laurent would very much like...

In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes. Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to His orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home. But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared...

'A a novel that brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in 18th-century France.’ Sunday Times Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to...

The tragic story of Clisson and Eugenie reveals one of history's great leaders to also be an accomplished writer of fiction.Written in an eloquently Romantic style true to its period, the story offers the reader a fascinating insight into how the young Napoleon viewed love, women and military life.