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Your Father’s Room

By Julian Evans (trans.) - By Michel Déon - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Michel Déon is a French author well-respected in France for his long literary career of over 50 works, but little-known in the English-speaking ...Read Review

The Great and the Good

By Julian Evans (trans.) - By Michel Déon - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

Michel Déon is a member of the Académie Française, and author of over 50 books of fiction and non-fiction, including highly ...Read Review

The Lady Agnes Mystery, Volumes 1 and 2

By Andrea H. Japp - By Katherine Gregor (trans.) - By Lorenza Garcia (trans.) - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Across these two volumes, translated from the original French, Andrea Japp tells the story of Lady Agnes de Souarcy, who we meet at ...Read Review

The Foundling’s War

By Julian Evans (trans.) - By Michel Déon - Published 2015

Genres:

Military

The Foundling’s War takes up the tale of Jean Arnaud, the hero of The Foundling Boy. The story opens in 1940, just as ...Read Review

The Phantom of Rue Royale

By Howard Curtis (trans.) - By Jean-Francois Parot - Published 2014Published c2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch has a rooftop view of the firework display celebrating the marriage of the Dauphin to Marie-Antoinette in 1770 Paris, ...Read Review

The Foundling Boy

By Julian Evans (trans.) - By Michel Déon - Published 2014Published c2013

Genres:

Literary

Told in a casual omniscient viewpoint, the story harkens back to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. Found on the doorstep of a Normandy ...Read Review

The Man with the Lead Stomach: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 2: A Nicholas Le Floch Investigation

By Jean-Francois Parot - By Michael Glencross (Translator) - Published 2009-01-15Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1761, Paris police commissioner Nicholas Le Floch rushes to investigate the apparent suicide of a young aristocrat. Nicholas immediately deduces that the young ...Read Review

Wolf Hunt: The Napoleonic Murders

By Armand Cabasson - By Isabel Reid (trans.) - Published 2014Published 2014-06-26

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

During the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, Napoleon’s army is camped outside Vienna awaiting reinforcements. Captain Quentin Margont of the 18th Infantry Regiment of ...Read Review

Monsieur le Commandant

By Jesse Browner (trans.) - By Roman Slocombe - Published 2014

Genres:

Literary

In World War II German-occupied France, Paul-Jean Husson, man of letters and member of the Académie Française, writes a long confessional ...Read Review

The Hurlyburly’s Husband

By Alison Anderson (trans.) - By Jean Teulé - Published 2014

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The Marquis de Montespan and his wife, Athénaïs, have a passionate and loving relationship. They live in a style much larger ...Read Review