Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life.In The Out...

A bestseller in France, this is the first English translation of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès’ fascinating, impassioned letters - a record of one of the great love affairs of the twentieth centuryYou and I met and fell in love passionately, impatiently, dangerously. I regret nothing and I feel that these last days I’ve lived are enough to justify a life. – Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, 1st July 1944Their affair began in wartime Paris. Maria Casa...

A call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. • “To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that forgives nothing.”In 1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously." Camus understood the necessity of those making art as a part of civil society. A bold cry for arti...

2024 National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA personal journey into a family’s history gradually becomes a historical investigation into the lesser known tragedy of the Nazi’s mass arrests of prominent French Jews and their imprisonment at the “camp of slow death” just fifty miles from Paris.“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s...

Change is needed now. For too long, stories of Black Women, where English is not their first language, and Women of Colour in Public Services have been silenced, distorted, and ignored. Driving Systemic Change and Empowerment for Women of Colour in Public Services: The Burden of One presents a powerful, multi-voiced, faith-filled narrative that reclaims space and presence.The personal journeys reveal the invisible labour, silent tears, self-efficacy, and relentless determi...

The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Némirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942.In 1941, Irène sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Français...

Hiding In The Light provides insights into the complicated Avoidant Personality Disorder (AVP) based on author Sandra Smith-Hanen's 25 plus years as a practicing psychologist. "My purpose in writing the manuscript was to validate both the avoidant and the significant other. Both parties in this relationship demonstrate major anxiety, frustration, and confusion over their behaviors and relationships. This validation has been very relieving for avoidants. It is also less confus...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a novel about ambition and greed set against the fabulously wealthy French aristocracy of the 1920s.A starving young immigrant doctor of Italian and Greek descent, Dario Asfar struggles to establish his practice, and is desperate to provide for his wife and newborn son. When the vulgar, self-indulgent French aristocrat Philippe Wardes dismisses his personal physician’s advice to ab...

A novel of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship from the award-winning French feminist and existentialist, unpublished in her lifetime.Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeIntroduction by Margaret AtwoodFrom the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of fri...

The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize–winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair—a bestseller in France, translated for the first time into EnglishAlbert. Albert chéri. Write me sweet, passionate things. Tell me you love me and how you love me. Tell me you’ll take me to the sea one day—any sea at all—and that we’ll spend time on the...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.In 1929, 26-year-old Irène Némirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Française and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are there in this astonishingl...

Marceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested by the Vichy government's militia, along with her father. He prepared her for the worst, telling her that he would not return. They were soon separated. The three kilometres between her father in Auschwitz and herself in Birkenau were an insurmountable distance, and yet he managed to send her a small note via an electrician in the camp - a sign of life.In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes a letter to ...