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  • A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    Series series French Literature
    The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts. ... Read more

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  • The Sextine Chapel

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    Series series French Literature
    The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives ... Read more

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  • The Beast of the Camargue

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    For centuries the ceremonial order of the Knights of the Tarasque have met to bear the effigy of a mythical beast through the Provencal town of Taracson. But one summer's night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discovery: a mutilated body found at the feet of the effigy, apparently torn apart by enormous teeth and claws. Can the monster of legend be more than just myth?The case draws an ... Read more

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  • The First Fingerprint

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    In an underwater cavern off the coast west of Marseille are the first human engravings known to man. Among them is a crude drawing of a three-fingered hand, which has long puzzled archaeologists. Is it a hunting signal? A mystic sign invoking the spirits? Or is it, as many believe, evidence of ritual mutilation in a Shamanistic world?"The Hunter" evidently believes the latter. Driven by inhuman ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Messenger

    A Novel

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo.Escaping from the Germans, Jan Karski was charged with the mission of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Éric Cantona's 82 Goals

    Translated by Ian Monk ...
    Éric Cantona is an enduring enigma. No Frenchman in the past 50 years has so successfully captured the British imagination. In scintillating essays that bring to life Cantona’s wild swings between hero and villain, this idiosyncratic catalogue of the footballer’s 82 goals for Manchester United in only five seasons, describing the matches in which each goal was scored and how each one came to pass, ... Read more

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    Series Book 1 - The Marseilles Trilogy
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