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  • The Readers' Room

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce, Polly Mackintosh ...
    **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, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • French Rhapsody

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken ...
    **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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The President's Hat

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    **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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vintage 1954

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    **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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Red Notebook

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    **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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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  • The Portrait

    by Antoine Laurain ...
    Translated by Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken ...
    A Parisian antiques collector finds himself in a case of mistaken identity after buying a portrait which curiously resembles himWhile wandering through a Paris auction house, avid collector Pierre-François Chaumont is stunned to discover the eighteenth-century portrait of an unknown man who looks just like him. Much to his delight, Chaumont's bid for the work is successful, but back at home his ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Carnage

    by Maxime Chattam ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    A seasoned New York detective is called to investigate a high school shooting in this gripping crime fiction novel. When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, a New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene. A student, aged seventeen, has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Eskimo Solution

    Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

    by Pascal Garnier ...
    Translated by Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hell's Gate

    by Laurent Gaudé ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    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? ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Under the Channel

    by Gilles Petel ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    When the body of a Scotsman turns up on board a Channel Tunnel train at the Gare du Nord, Parisian detective Roland Desfeuillères finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. This inter-city tale of changing identities is no ordinary crime novel. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gallic Noir

    Volume 3

    by Pascal Garnier ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Melanie Florence, Emily Boyce ...
    Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience. Volume 3 includes The Eskimo Solution, which combines the story of a struggling writer with excerpts of the crime novel he's writing, which will spill over into his own life; Low Heights, in which a cantankerous retiree falls for his nurse and finds himself ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Society & Kew Gardens

    Level 600 Reader (L+) (CERF B1)

    by Virginia Woolf, Emily Aitken ...
    Series Book 600 - Matatabi Graded Readers
    A Society & Kew Gardens: Level 600 Reader (L+) (CERF B1) presents modern and simplified versions of two famous stories written by Virginia Woolf. A Society, first published in 1921, shows the issue of inequality in British society in the early 1900s. It ridicules the elitist social circles of England with satire, revealing their shallow and isolated nature. Kew Gardens, first published in 1919, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD