Published By: Gallic BooksPages: 192Released on: 28/03/2024Translated By: Polly Mackintosh Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. The highlight of the week was when the dishyContinue reading “Clara Reads Proust – Stéphane Carlier”
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 160Released On: 04/07/2023 When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop. Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover’s paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, theContinue reading “Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa”
What You Are Looking For Is In The Library – Michiko Aoyama
Published By: DoubledayPages: 256Released On: 17/08/2023Translated By: Alison Watts What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian to the visitors in her library. For Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it.We meet fiveContinue reading “What You Are Looking For Is In The Library – Michiko Aoyama”
Gratitude – Delphine de Vigan
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 160Released On: 25/11/2021Translated By: George Miller Marie owes Michka more than she can say – but Michka is getting older, and can’t look after herself any more. So Marie has moved her to a home where she’ll be safe. But Michka doesn’t feel any safer; she is haunted by strange figures whoContinue reading “Gratitude – Delphine de Vigan”
The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Translated By: Ros SchwartzPublished By: Pan MacmillanPages: 208Released On: 10/03/2016 Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws ofContinue reading “The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent”
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina
Translated By: Lucy RandPublished By: Manilla PressPages: 416Date Released: 25/06/2020 We all have something to tell those we have lost. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continue. Then one day she hearsContinue reading “The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina”
The Survivors – Alex Schulman
Published By: Little BrownPages: 240Released On: 07/10/2021 In the wake of their mother’s death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn’t escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quickContinue reading “The Survivors – Alex Schulman”
The Mystery of Henri Pick – David Foenkinos
Published by: Pushkin PressPages: 288Date released: 07/05/2020Date read: 02/08/2020 In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring itContinue reading “The Mystery of Henri Pick – David Foenkinos”
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