Fourteen-year-old Goldsmith Jones is left stranded in crime-ridden, gangland territory. He finds himself living at The Shades, a home to local street kids. While selling sexual favours down the Dead Man's Alley to survive, Jones is charmed by a seaman he knows as Sweet Virginia. Moving further away from the relative security that The Shades and his best friend, Raccoon, offered him, Jones is drawn ever closer to the manipulative Sweet Virginia. When Raccoon falls gravely ill and is taken t...

Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award" Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller."— New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré—from one of the world's preeminent authorsJean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United...

A Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature | Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardOne of The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 | Named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews“A hypnotic, powerful historical novel in which stories nest within one another like dolls . . ....

**'Lyrical and profound, delving into the depths of human connection. You will cry.'GLAMOUR'Impressive . . . it gripped my heart and imagination.'**JO BROWNING WROE'Intriguing . . . there is also significant charm and energy.'GUARDIAN'Compulsive, electrifying.'SPECTATOROne man, one choice, two lifetimes.In one un...

**One of The New York Times’s 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st CenturyOne of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.“A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . Slimani has us in her thrall.” —Roxane ...

One of The Washington Post's 50 Best Novels of the Year**A finalist for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award“As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.” —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker**“[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian“Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this.” —George Cochrane, The Telegraph (...

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review)After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and t...

**Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award“Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller.”—New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré—from one of the world’s preeminent authors**Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States, wher...

Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South.The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people, it's what she does for a living. And that's precisely what's bothering the Vatican.For Luis Molina of the Savannah News, ...

An elderly bookseller improbably keeps his shop open in Palestine, telling a foreign correspondent the ways in which literature has provided him with refuge and inspiration.“An essential novel to remind us that those in Gaza continue to read, they continue to exist.” -David Diop, author of Beyond the Door of No Return and At Night All Blood Is BlackA young French photograp...

A towering figure in music and film, Michel Legrand created some of the most creative and innovative film scores of the second half of the 20th century. The music of his most most successful collaborations -- masterpieces for films such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of '42, and Yentl -- is particularly memorable. As these scores and the stories behind their creation are, they represent one part of Legrand's genius. Over a career that spann...

WARNING: This book contains harsh detail of true physical and sexual child abuseMy book is about my life up to the age of 17 years old. My mother did not want me as a baby and my mother's parents took me in, I was so happy with living with my grandparents, I loved them very much, Staying with my mother again was very different especially once she had a new boyfriend and horrible abuse started from a very young age. My mother was warned yet did nothing to save me and my two brothers...