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  • The Martins

    by David Foenkinos ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    **A wryly funny story about a struggling Parisian writer who finds the heroine of his next novel right outside his apartment“Foenkinos is at his best in this playful novel” — Elle“A charming, clever book” — The Independent**Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary?This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges himself to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Don't Let Go

    by Michel Bussi ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    From the bestselling author of After the Crash, "a novel so extraordinary it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the first time" ( The Sunday Times).Holidaying in an idyllic resort on the island of Réunion, wealthy Parisians Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect family moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze.Then Liane ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspective(s)

    A Novel

    by Laurent Binet ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    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 (... ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I'll Take the Fire

    A Novel

    by Leila Slimani ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    **One of The New York Times’s “Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”From one of the boldest and most captivating voices in world literature, a sensual and provocative coming-of-age novel about a young Arab woman on a quest for sexual and political freedom“Propulsive and fearless . . . I won’t be surprised if this book finds readers for generations to come.” —Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Summer Boy

    A Novel

    by Philippe Besson ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    On an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery.Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagers—five boys and one girl—band together for a final ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Hour of the Predator

    Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World

    by Giuliano da Empoli ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    **A CHILLING ASSESSMENT OF THE DISINTEGRATING WORLD ORDER: the rise of autocratic regimes, erosion of traditional diplomacy, and growing influence of tech billionaires and unregulated AI"The one book you absolutely need to read in order to understand current politics" — Anne Applebaum, author of the New York Times bestseller Autocracy, Inc.**Blending the internationally bestselling author’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond the Door of No Return

    A Novel

    by David Diop ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    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 . . .... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Holy F*ck

    by Joseph Incardona ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Perfect Nanny

    A Novel

    by Leila Slimani ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    ***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.One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Adèle, Sex and Lies, In the Country of Others, and Watch Us Dance“A great novel . . . ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Civilizations

    A Novel

    by Laurent Binet ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire-building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Country of Others

    A Novel

    by Leila Slimani ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Goldsmith Jones

    by Sam Taylor-Pye ...
    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 ... Read more

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