France
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThe French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.
The nine stories in this colle… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270645
- Language: English
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Half an Hour from Paris: 12 Secret Daytrips by Train
$22.99 Read more– Unmissable guide to secret destinations just moments from Paris
Fully revised and updated edition, now in full colour and with two new chapters: Brunoy and Parc Saint Cloud.
The spectacular medieval
- Author: Simms, Annabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1843682273
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 3
$18.00 Read moreParis may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! –The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock tri
- Series: Vernon Subutex #3
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0374283265
- Language: English
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How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong
$14.95 Read moreIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intr
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559477
- Language: English
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The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris
$29.99 Read moreIn a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city.
The New Parisienne focuses on one of th- Author: Tramuta, Lindsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1419742817
- Language: English
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Bagatelle: A Princely Residence in Paris
$85.00 Read moreAn unprecedented look into the history, art, and gardens of Chç©°eau de Bagatelle, the Parisian getaway villa of kings and royal family members
In 1775, the Comte d’Artois, brother of Louis XVI and fu- Author: Cattelain, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 2080247522
- Language: English
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de Gaulle
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize
In this definitive biography of the mythic general
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0674241452
- Language: English
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Emily in Paris: Paris, j’Adore!: The Official Authorized Companion to Emily’s Secret Paris
$30.00 Read moreThe official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.
Paris, J’Adore! is Emily Cooper’s diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to star- Author: Emily in Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316520527
- Language: English
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Walking D-Day
$24.95 Read morePaul Reed’s latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The pla… [more below]
- Series: Battleground Europe
- Author: Reed, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1848848366
- Language: English
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Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism
$65.00 Read moreAn exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century
Edgar Degas’s depictions of Parisian laundres- Author: Salsbury, Britany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273223
- Language: English
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Cereal City Guide: Paris
$24.99 Read moreFrom the leading independent travel and style magazine Cereal comes Cereal City Guide: Paris, a portrait of the French capital offering a finely curated edit on what to see and do for discerning trave… [more below]
- Author: Park, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1419732870
- Language: English
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The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
$19.99 Add to cart“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA).
The twen… [more below]
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0618919813
- Language: English
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Literary Landscapes: Paris
$28.99 Read moreFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.
The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous liter
- Series: Literary Landscapes
- Author: Bliss, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0008588996
- Language: English
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The Frenchman
$27.99 Read moreBased on the experiences of a real French spy, Jack Beaumont’s first-hand knowledge and experiences make this thriller plausible and frightening as you’re plunged into the very real world of terror, e
- Series: Frenchman #1
- Author: Beaumont, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant
$19.95 Read moreFrom field producer for HBO’s Andr? the Giant Pat Laprade and renowned wrestling historian Bertrand H?bert comes a definitive and exhaustive biography of Andr? the Giant … now in paperback!
“The
- Author: H?bert, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1770416757
- Language: English
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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
$13.00 Add to cartSet in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are a… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Maupassant, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448128
- Language: English
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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
$17.95 Add to cartBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sci
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358593
- Language: English
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Brittany: A Cultural History
$15.00 Read moreA cultural guide to a region on the edge of europe that has been visited by the Romans, Franks, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Germans. Brittany’s richly layered landscape has contributed depth and charact… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Cultural Histories
- Author: Mewes, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1566560888
- Language: English
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The Hermès Scarf: History & Mystique
$95.00 Add to cartThe Herm?s scarf is a style icon. Worn by royalty and celebrities, coveted and admired, and now avidly collected, this deceptively simple square of silk is much more than just a fashion accessory: it … [more below]
- Author: Coleno, Nadine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0500515182
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribut… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974281
- Language: English
