Region: France (129 Listed volumes)
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Alexandra Lapierre
Belle Greene
Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing, this is a richly imagined novel bursting with atmosphere, lush period detail, and many unforgettable characters. -
Lola Lafon
Reeling
Award-winning author, Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls–their fragility, their resilience. Fontenay, a Parisian suburb, 1984. Cléo is 12 when her parents prod her into taking ballet classes. She drops out after a long year of feeling lost, not classy... -
Sandrine Collette
The Forests
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Winner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, a powerful novel about a man’s desperate quest to bring new life to a desolate world. Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in the village, only preoccupied... -
Jérôme Ferrari
In His Own Image
From Goncourt Prize-winning author Jérôme Ferrari, a bewitching story of passion, death, and love, and a powerful reflection on the ambiguous relationship between art and reality Born in a small town in Corsican countryside, Antonia grows up in a place of deeply-rooted traditions and... -
Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Hanged Man of Conakry
Something has got Aurel Timescu’s attention: an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime. A vacationer has been found hanged. And it is a crime that will go unpunished if Aurel isn’t ready for the fight of his life. -
Muriel Barbery
The Writer's Cats
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes this delightful, delicate tale that pays tribute to the poetry of the everyday, to Japanese philosophy, and to the ingenuity and sardonic humor of cats. What a mysterious, confounding thing is a writer! Yet, spend a little... -
Bénédicte Belpois
Suiza
How transformative can love actually be? Across the Galician countryside, where there are just as many rain-soaked days as not, villagers face hardships armed with hope and solidarity. Tomás is a successful farmer in this small village, but he’s not happy. His days are busy with work. -
Christelle Dabos
The Storm of Echoes
Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet“The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter.”— ELLE Magazine The gripping finale to Christelle Dabos’s international best-selling Mirror Visitor saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, and Thorn discover that the truth they have been seeking has always... -
Muriel Barbery
A Single Rose
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.
