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Paris, Christmas 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge ...

Sarah is poor, but at least she's French, which allows her to attend the city's elite high school for ex pats and wealthy locals. It's there that she first lays eyes on Driss. He's older, quiet and not particularly good looking - apart from his eyes, which are the green of thyme simmering in a ta...

Told in an irresistible, heartrending voice, 'Bad Habit' takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid neighbourhood ironically named after a holy saint. An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and ...

In many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they've had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area's swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park ...

It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a...

Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing from the library shelves, she...

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss's lively English translation remains faithful to the style of Dumas's original.

She'd once come here to kill herself but now Mia Kruger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator. But when she is approached by 11-year-old Sofia asking for help in finding her missing friend, her old instincts ar...

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not ...

Mathilde was a member of the French resistance, who both impressed and horrified everyone with her cool capacity for violence. But now she's 63 and starting to lose her memory and behave erratically. This is a potentially dangerous situation, since Mathilde now makes her living as a contract killer.