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France in the World

From prehistoric climate change to Coco Chanel to 'Je suis Charlie'

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A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through a comprehensive collection of short essays.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ‘Hugely, highly and happily recom…

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilizati…

Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of…

Staff Pick Strange, frustrating, divisive, dark, very much from the David Lynch School of The Uneasy (mastering in the art of endings that c…

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay…

Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the H…

Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller wo…

In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served f…

Staff Pick How much Hamnet bears any relationship to the actual son of William Shakespeare is neither here nor there. This is Maggie O’Farre…