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  • Farewell, My Only One

    A Novel of Abelard and Heloise

    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    A novel that brings to life one of the great romances of all time. "Evokes in gritty and poetic detail the streets of twelfth-century Paris." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the early twelfth century, William reaches Paris full of hope and without a penny. There, on the same day, he meets the two people who will dominate his life: young Heloise, with whom he immediately falls in love, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dog Island

    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    When three bodies wash up on the beach of a remote island, the locals must decide whether they should uncover the truth or let the mystery die with the victims.Nestled in an overlooked part of the Mediterranean, Dog Island is home to a quiet and untouched community that has long lived off its fishing, its vines, and its olive trees, far away from the turmoil its neighbors. But when the bodies of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Life of Irene Nemirovsky

    1903-1942

    The first major biography of the author of Suite FrançaiseThe posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic and moving than her most powerful fiction.With her family, she escaped Russia in 1919 and settled in Paris, where she met and married fellow Jewish émigré ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Annotated Luther

    The Interpretation of Scripture

    by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series The Annotated Luther
    This volume features Martin Luther the exegete and Bible teacher. His vast exegetical writings and lectures on Scripture are introduced through important examples from both the Old and New Testaments. Included in the volume is his brief treatise "On Translating" and his prefaces to both the Old and New Testaments, to key sections of Scripture (Psalter, Prophets), and to select books such as ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Modern Europe : An Oxford History

    An Oxford History

    by Euan Cameron ...
    Early Modern' is a term applied to the period which falls between the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Europe in this period, exploring the changes and transitions involved in the move towards modernity. Nine newly commissioned chapters under the careful editorship of Euan Cameron cover social, political, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Enchanted Europe:Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    by Euan Cameron ...
    Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites.For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Monsieur Linh and His Child

    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. To begin with, he is too afraid to leave the refugee centre, but the first time he braves the freezing cold to walk the streets of this strange, fast-moving town, he encounters Monsieur Bark, a widower whose dignified sorrow mirrors ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Man in a Hurry

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Venices

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself."Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Journey to Nowhere

    Among the Lands and History of Courland

    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991.It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated)

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Paul Morand's last book, one of the most appealing of his oeuvre, brings together around the figure of Chanel, portraits of Misia Sert, Erik Satie, Serge Lifar, Georges Auric, Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau, Picasso and Churchill, among others.Based on a series of intimate conversations between Morand and Coco Chanel, written in the great storyteller's marvellous prose, this book artfully sketches ... Read more

    $14.99 USD