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  • We Were Forbidden

    by Jacqueline Harpman ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    From the author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, each plumbing the depths of that most necessary human instinct: defiance.In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest. She and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their eternal march through its strange depths ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Who Have Never Known Men

    by Jacqueline Harpman, Sophie Mackintosh ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Maigret and the Minister (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series Book 46 - Inspector Maigret
    When an explosive government report goes missing, Maigret must track it down before an honest man takes the fall.When a government minister telephones Maigret directly, the inspector senses trouble. Auguste Point is not accused of murder, theft, or fraud, but of knowing too much. A devastating disaster at a children’s sanatorium has reopened old political wounds, and a long-suppressed engineering ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Cat (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    In a back alley in Paris, an elderly couple live in mutual hatred and complete silence, after their marriage descended into a twisted psychological game in which torturing the other is the only victory—and the only point.Tucked away in a Parisian alleyway, Émile and Marguerite live in a state of silent war. A marriage that began as a mismatched second chance for widow and widower has curdled into ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Betty (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    Cut off from her bourgeois family, a young woman drifts through Paris in disgrace, succumbing to the lure of alcohol and a mysterious benefactress.Expelled from her family home in the provinces after a scandalous affair, Betty arrives in Paris with empty pockets, no plan, and a powerful thirst for drink. In a seedy bar on the Champs-Élysées, she meets Laure, an older woman clinging to scraps of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Inspector Maigret
    Seventeen gripping short stories in which Simenon’s celebrated detective Maigret uncovers the darkness beneath ordinary lives.A hanged couple is found on a barge. A straightforward case of poisoning proves more complex than it seems. A young woman writes to Maigret fearing for her life. Time and again, the people of Paris find themselves in complex, deceitful, and terrifying scenarios—and only ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Orlanda

    by Jacqueline Harpman ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    One afternoon in a Paris train station, as 35-year-old literature professor Aline Berger struggles to re-read Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a novel she has never enjoyed, an odd feeling comes over her when a handsome but strange young man asks her for aspirin. Haunted by the harsh words of her domineering mother, who demanded that she suppress her tomboyish tendencies during her childhood, Aline has ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series Book 58 - Inspector Maigret
    When a quiet, respectable, and well-liked retired businessman is murdered in his home, leaving the police with no leads, Maigret begins to suspect that the victim has a more complicated history than his family members are letting on.The murder of a retired businessman in his apartment in Montparnasse, with nothing stolen, no witnesses, and alibis for all of his family members, leaves the police ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • I Didn't Say Goodbye

    by Claudine Vegh, Ros Schwartz ...
    Approximately 1,500,000 Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust — almost ninety percent of those alive in Europe in 1939. The vast majority of those who survived were hidden, either with their parents, or with strangers. For decades, they were considered too young to remember their experiences during the Second World War. I Didn’t Say Goodbye, by Claudine Vegh, a hidden child who grew ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Maigret in Court (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series Book 55 - Inspector Maigret
    Maigret appears in court to testify against a man accused of a brutal double murder, but must find a way to express his doubts about the case to save an innocent man’s life—and find the real culprit.Despite his many years on the police force, Inspector Maigret has never quite gotten used to “the most distasteful side of his profession”: court. Confined within the four walls of the courtroom and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Writing, the Other Life

    Texts and art by and about Annie Ernaux

    Edited by Pierre-Louis Fort ...
    **WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials make this a beautiful keepsake for new and longtime fans.**Magisterial in scope and size, Annie ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A House of Ruin

    by Jacqueline Harpman ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    A gothic novel in the grand tradition of the nineteenth century—set in '90s Belgium—by the bestselling author of I Who Have Never Known Men.An architect returning home from a business trip is stranded when his car breaks down. It is midnight. In the distance he sees a wrought-iron gate, and behind it, a beautiful, crumbling mansion that seems to belong to a different time. For a steep fee, he is ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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