Fiction
Children of Freedom
Marc Levy
In Children of Freedom, Marc Levy captures the everyday life of Jeannot and his fellow members of the 35th Brigade. This group was based out of Toulouse and it succeeded in resisting the occupying for…
North Pole by Night
Mike Horn
On the 21st of October 2004, Mike Horn completed his greatest feat thus far: circumnavigating the 20,000 kilometres of the Arctic Circle, alone, against the winds and currents, without using any motor…
Victor
Michèle Fitoussi
Victor is a charming octogenarian and on the face of it the ideal candidate for the focus of a highly original media campaign: he will be the first ever elderly man to be “adopted” by a family – a goo…
Lucky Girl
Michael Wallner
Northern Germany, 1948Inga is a young civilian employee at the British Army Base near her home town in the flat plains of Northern Germany. When she encounters Alec Hayden, a pale and introverted woun…
Mary
Marek Halter
Miriam of Nazareth, or Mary as she is better known, was born into a Palestine in revolt. The territories that made up Palestine — Judea, Galilee and Samaria — were in uproar, battling not only again…
The Black Book
Paul Verhoeven & Laurens Abbink Spaink
Set in the Hague in the last days of World War II, The Black Book follows Rachel – a beautiful, young Jewish girl – who is forced out of hiding by a way-laid Ally bomb. She finds herself caught at the…
A Room in the House of War
Christoph Peters
Egypt, 1992: a group of ten Islamic fundamentalists are preparing an attack on the temples in Luxor. Among the terrorists is Sawatzky, a young German man, recently converted to Islam. He has left his…
The Beach Walker
Henning Boëtius
Despite moving to Italy to a secluded white-washed town by the sea, Henning Boysen can not shake a debilitating case of writer’s block. He spends his days wandering around, a tolerated foreigner in th…
A Bridge of Birds
Antoine Audouard
Paris, January 2003. One morning a man is delivered to André Garnier’s doorstep. A crumpled, frail figure, this virtual stranger is André’s father, Pierre Garnier. Suffering from the final stages of A…
London, Mon Amour
Marc Levy
When Mathias moves from Paris to South Kensington to join his best friend, Antoine, they decide to establish a new household for their kids by moving in together. They set themselves two ground rules:…