Siân Reynolds was born in Cardiff and taught at both Sussex University and Edinburgh University before serving as Chair of French at Stirling University from 1999-2004. She has translated numerous books from the French, both fiction and nonfiction, including works by crime writer Fred Vargas.
49 Ebooks de Sian Reynolds
Sian Reynolds: Marriage and Revolution
Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution. J.-M. Roland was mi …
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William Kidd & Sian Reynolds: Contemporary French Cultural Studies
The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and consumption, and students need to have a …
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Sian Reynolds: France Between the Wars
Sian Reynolds challenges the prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. She combines extensive empirical research with revealing insights int …
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Sian Reynolds: France Between the Wars
Sian Reynolds challenges the prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. She combines extensive empirical research with revealing insights int …
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Sian Reynolds: Paris-Edinburgh
By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture. Edinburgh, …
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Sian Reynolds: Paris-Edinburgh
By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture. Edinburgh, …
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William Kidd & Sian Reynolds: Contemporary French Cultural Studies
The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and consumption, and students need to have a …
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€46.91
Georges Simenon: Crime in Holland
‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves ‘Just take a look, ‘ Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in i …
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Georges Simenon: Dancer at the Gai-Moulin
The city of Simenon’s youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Li ge, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series.In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cath …
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Georges Simenon: Mah Circle
‘Powerful . . . unputdownably gripping’ Guardian’The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son’s bed, the deafening sound of cicadas’During his first …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret Sets a Trap
‘The most addictive of writers’ Observer ‘High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where ros wine was being served … Yet a hundred metres …
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Georges Simenon: Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon’s best loved masterpieces.’A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion … disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blin …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret’s Revolver
Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dea …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret’s Pickpocket
‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves’Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one cou …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret’s Madwoman
‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves’He hadn’t seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Poli …
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Fred Vargas: This Night’s Foul Work
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered s …
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Fred Vargas: Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in pris …
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Fred Vargas: Uncertain Place
Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere …
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Fred Vargas: Chalk Circle Man
Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not …
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Fred Vargas: Three Evangelists
The opera singer Sophia Sim onidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosle …
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Fred Vargas: Dog Will Have His Day
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician’s nephew, ex-special investigator Lou …
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Fred Vargas: Accordionist
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Cl ment Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartme …
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Fred Vargas: Climate of Fear
*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade*THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disg …
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Fred Vargas: This Poison Will Remain
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France’s multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**’Adams …
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Georges Simenon: Little Man from Archangel
‘A unique teller of tales … What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate’ Observer’She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely …
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Georges Simenon: People Opposite
‘You’ll get used to things, you’ll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.’Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Bl …
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Elizabeth Ewan & Rose Pipes: New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is a fully revised and extended edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. It includes more …
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Si n Reynolds: Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent’Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of t …
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Fred Vargas: Ghost Riders of Ordebec
People will die, says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target t …
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Fernand Braudel: Out of Italy
The city-states of fifteenth-century Italy exerted unprecedented cultural influence on Europe and the Mediterranean and acted as a bulwark against the imperial and bellicose designs of the empires th …
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Georges Simenon: Widow Couderc
‘Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting’ Financial Times Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband le …
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Elizabeth Ewan & Rose Pipes: New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is a fully revised and extended edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. It includes more …
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