Författare: Christine Donougher

The darker side of the Parisian Left Bank in the 1940s , with supernatural elements. Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …

Autobiographical recounts the tortured 7 traumatic coming of age of Jean Mintie in 19th c France. Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic comi …

The most wide-ranging, important collection of English decadence. Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …

Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. It has been Sylvie Germain’s most commercially successful novel in France.Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, who pieces …

A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo’s thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as …

In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times – no exotic queen courted by two lovers with the fate of an empire in their hands but a young would-be ballet dancer who now …

Margherita Giacobino’s book is a fictionalised biography/autobiography of Patricia Highsmith. A lesbian in an era when to be homosexual was to be reviled and discriminated against, and made to feel g …

The identity of Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, is inseparable from the waters of the lagoon by which she is surrounded. Isabella Panfido takes us on an exploration of those waters that since time imm …

Days of Anger won the Prix Femina when it was first published in France in 1989.’A murdered woman, lying buried in the forests of the Morvan, is the still beating heart of Days of Anger. A rich, even …

’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 …