**Described as “Parisian perfection” by Queen Camilla, you won’t want to miss this charming, quirky love story from one of the UK's favourite French authors!In this bestselling novel, a bookseller pursues a mystery woman—known only through the jottings in her red notebook—through the streets of Paris**Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street, and feels compelled to return it to its owner. Quickly ruling out the police station, whic...

**This international bestseller is a charming “fable of romance and redemption” about an unsuspecting accountant who happens upon the life-changing power of a rather special hat (Telegraph)“As entertaining as it is original, this is the story to enjoy like a chocolate with a surprise centre” –Marie France“Impossible to resist” –L'Express**Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes w...

A powerful exploration of self-blame, its origins, why women are prone to it, and what we can do about it.Many of us battle a relentless inner critic, which whispers to us that we are unworthy or inadequate, whether in our role as parents, employees, or citizens of an unjust world. In How to Resist Guilt acclaimed feminist writer Mona Chollet asks why we so often succumb to these feelings and settle for a second-rate life lived under constant pressure, ins...

**From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by Queen Camilla, comes a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing“A stylish whodunnit blended with an affectionate send-up of the world of books” — The Sunday Mirror“Blends mystery with comedy to great effect” — The Daily Mail**When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced...

A pocket-sized family saga from the rich imagination and storytelling talents of Franco-Venezuelan author Miguel Bonnefoy.A winegrower ruined by the Great French Vine Blight takes his one surviving vine stock and boards a ship for California. But the new life he has in store is not the one he had imagined - taken ill aboard ship, he is forced to disembark at Valparaíso, where a misunderstanding at the customs post finds him rebaptized after his birthplace, Lons-le-Saunier: the Lonsonier fa...

**A letter delivered 30 years late sets a middle-aged Parisian doctor off on a picaresque, nostalgic exploration of youthful dreams and the path not takenA “must-read. . . If it wasn't so funny, you'd weep for the roads not taken” — Le Figaro“Beautifully written, superbly plotted and with a brilliant twist at the end” — Daily Mail**Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter—33 years too late. Lost in the Paris postal sy...

A compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition.His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he was one of those men who die standing up.A chance meeting in the local pharmacy transforms the life of lonely, illiterate Octavio. He begins reading lessons and finds love and happiness for the very first time. But Octavio's destiny lies elsewhere, as he will discover on a jo...

When his son is killed by gangsters' crossfire on his way to school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair.But just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a man who claims the living can find ways into the afterlife. And legend says that there's an entrance to the underworld beneath Naples. What if Matteo had a chance of bringing Pippo back from the dead?

Nature's a funny old thing, it does whatever it pleases.Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they're the only residents and it's raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive, the sun comes out, and life becomes far more interesting and agreeable. Until, that is, some travellers set up camp just outside their gated c...

A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own life begin to overlap with the work of his imagination.

**A very special bottle of wine sends 4 neighbors back to 1950s Paris, where they each find the key to a happy future“A glorious time-slip caper... Just wonderful” — Daily Mail**When Hubert Larnaudie, chair of the management committee at his Parisian apartment building, makes an out-of-character decision to invite some fellow residents to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its unique properties.The following morning, Hubert fi...

Recently widowed grandmother Éliette is returning to her home in the mountains when her micro-car breaks down. A stranger comes to her aid on foot. Éliette offers him a lift, glad of the interruption to her humdrum routine.That night, her neighbours' son is killed in a road accident. Could the tragedy be linked to the arrival of her good Samaritan?