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  • Knife-Woman

    The Life of Louise Bourgeois

    by Marie-Laure Bernadac ...
    Translated by Lauren Elkin ...
    The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focusLouise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. She is known for a body of work that spans sculpture, painting, and printmaking but eludes any aesthetic classification. Her life and art were so intertwined that it is often ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • The Mystery of Henri Pick

    by David Foenkinos ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    Series series Walter Presents
    The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of booksIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • How to Take Your Time

    from How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years

    1917-1932

    by John Richardson ...
    Series Book 3 - A Life of Picasso
    The third volume of Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Expatriate Paris

    A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s

    by Arlen J. Hansen ...
    Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. For travelers, Francophiles and the curious, this gossipy retrospective of expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s is a mosaic of quick glimpses—Sarah Bernhardt ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Flaneur

    A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

    by Edmund White ...
    Edmund White has just met you at a party and he's going to tell you about a friend. But his 'friend' is one of the greatest cities in the world, beloved by many and yet really known by only a few. And he is one of those few. -Alexander CheeEdmund White's New York Times bestselling guided sojourn through the streets of Paris, with a new foreword by Alexander Chee.Legendary paterfamilias of queer ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Phantoms on the Bookshelves

    by Jacques Bonnet ...
    "A charming book full of erudition and wit" that explores the human impulse to accumulate books ( Literary Review).Jacques Bonnet, a lifelong accumulator of books ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his tens of thousands of volumes, as well as some overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors from the earliest known ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gertrude Stein

    An Afterlife

    by Francesca Wade ...
    Winner of the Plutarch AwardNamed one of the Best Books of 2025 by Washington Post Book World, Fresh Air, PBS Newshour, and AirMailThis critically acclaimed, “superb” (The Washington Post) biography of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century examines both Gertrude Stein’s life and her partner’s emergence from the shadows after her death, in the decades ... Read more

    Was $33.99 CAD Now $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Left Bank

    Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–50

    by Agnès Poirier ...
    An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of ParisIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Georges Perec: A Life in Words

    by David Bellos ...
    "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation.David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Saint-Germain-des-Pres

    Paris's Rebel Quarter

    by John Baxter ...
    Series Book 1 - Great Parisian Neighborhoods
    From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative “biographies” of Paris’s great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres—the city’s “rebel quarter,” for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutionary activity and home to some of Paris’s most iconic cafes and shops.For many years, Saint ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp

    by Pierre Cabanne ...
    Interviews with the French American progenitor of conceptual art, revealing in his own words his artistic journey and commitment to avant-garde art.Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp is a collection of in-depth interviews with the artist, covering his transition from painting to conceptual art, the creation of the Large Glass, his invention of “readymades,” and his preference for art that is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD