The Gallic list with its imprint, Aardvark Bureau, offers you more than 80 works of fiction and non-fiction, including historical fiction, crime and noir, biography and memoir, commercial and literary fiction, graphic novels and classics. Here you will find works by critically acclaimed authors such as Pascal Garnier, Muriel Barbery, Antoine Laurain, Edward Carey, Dame Fiona Kidman and much more.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Choke
Sofie Laguna
The Choke is a brilliant, haunting coming-of-age story about a child navigating an often uncaring world of male power and violence.
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GALLIC BOOKSC’est la Vie
Pascal Garnier
‘Happiness for those unused to it is like food for the starving – a little too much can be fatal.’
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AARDVARK BUREAUThis Mortal Boy
Fiona Kidman
A novel based on real events and real people and the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Sébastien Japrisot
From the author of A Very Long Engagement comes a tangled, terrifying psychological thriller worthy of Georges Simenon, Paula Hawkins or Pat…
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GALLIC BOOKSVintage 1954
Antoine Laurain
After drinking a bottle of vintage Beaujolais, a group of Parisian neighbours are transported back in time to 1954.
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AARDVARK BUREAULittle
Edward Carey
Based on the incredible life story of the world’s most famous wax sculptor, Marie Tussaud.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Choke
Sofie Laguna
A quick, cruel, coming-of-age tale in the vein of recent remarkable literature on dangerous girlhoods and disjointed families.
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AARDVARK BUREAULittle
Edward Carey
Based on the incredible life story of the world’s most famous wax sculptor, Marie Tussaud.
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AARDVARK BUREAULittle
Edward Carey
From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a bloodstained, diminutive crumb of a servant girl who went on to shape the world.
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AARDVARK BUREAUProdigal
Charles Lambert
An innovative family drama told across three timelines that explores the nature of trust, death and what we do to one another in the name of…
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Hope Fault
Tracy Farr
A novel about extended family: steps and exes and fairy godmothers; parents and partners who are missing, and the people who replace them.
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GALLIC BOOKSSmoking Kills
Antoine Laurain
How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? Fabrice Valentine will go very far, as far as committing the ultimate crime …
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GALLIC BOOKSOne Deadly Summer
Sébastien Japrisot
Set in the 1970s, and available in English again for the first time in decades, this is a true classic of French suspense.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe White City
Roma Tearne
A permanently frozen London is the setting for a harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival by Costa-shortlisted author Roma Tearne.
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AARDVARK BUREAUBrixton Beach
Roma Tearne
Tragedy and injustice can be physically left behind, but the past is never far away …
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GALLIC BOOKSGallic Noir: Volume 3
Pascal Garnier
Pascal Garnier’s ‘deliciously dark and painfully funny’ noirs, now collected in three volumes.
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GALLIC BOOKSGallic Noir: Volume 2
Pascal Garnier
Pascal Garnier’s ‘deliciously dark and painfully funny’ noirs, now collected in three volumes.
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GALLIC BOOKSBlack Sugar
Miguel Bonnefoy
Life in a remote Venezuelan village is transformed by successive travellers seeking Henry Morgan’s legendary buried treasure.
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AARDVARK BUREAUAll Day at the Movies
Fiona Kidman
The choices of the past echo through the generations in this moving New Zealand saga tracing the lives of the Sandle family, first encounter…
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GALLIC BOOKSGallic Noir: Volume 1
Pascal Garnier
Pascal Garnier’s ‘deliciously dark and painfully funny’ noirs, now collected in three volumes.
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AARDVARK BUREAUSalt Creek
Lucy Treloar
The multi-award-winning debut historical novel – Walter Scott and Miles Franklin-shortlisted.
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AARDVARK BUREAUTwo Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche
Charles Lambert
A pair of disturbing novellas from the master of ‘the literary uncanny’
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe White City
Roma Tearne
A permanently frozen London is the setting for Roma Tearne’s harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival in a dystopian near-future.
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Lucy Treloar
A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia.
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GALLIC BOOKSLow Heights
Pascal Garnier
At least vultures have the decency to wait until their prey’s dead before picking it apart …
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AARDVARK BUREAUGreen Lion
Henrietta Rose-Innes
Of course, you’re never expecting the lion, are you? Like something coming up in the rear-view mirror. Much closer than it appears.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Threat Level Remains Severe
Rowena Macdonald
A new colleague and a mysterious admirer make life infinitely more interesting for House of Commons secretary Grace, but is all as it seems?
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Portrait
Antoine Laurain
A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him.
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GALLIC BOOKSYour Father’s Room
Michel Déon
A touching and true depiction of boyhood, how our early experiences affect us, and a vivid recreation of the interwar period.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Life of Elves
Muriel Barbery
Two foundling girls hundreds of miles apart discover a unique bond that will help them fight the forces of evil.
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GALLIC BOOKSHell’s Gate
Laurent Gaudé
What if death was not the end? A thrilling story of love, loss and revenge in Naples and beyond
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GALLIC BOOKSOctavio’s Journey
Miguel Bonnefoy
A compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition.
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AARDVARK BUREAUSongs from the Violet Café
Fiona Kidman
From the author of The Infinite Air, a powerful story of women’s lives spanning decades and continents.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Great and the Good
Michel Déon
From the acclaimed author of The Foundling Boy comes this new classic set in 1950s America.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe People in the Photo Special Edition
Hélène Gestern
A beautifully produced limited gift edition of the highly acclaimed debut novel
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Red Notebook Special Edition
Antoine Laurain
A beautifully produced limited gift edition of the bestseller.
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AARDVARK BUREAUNineveh
Henrietta Rose-Innes
An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers.
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GALLIC BOOKSFrench Rhapsody
Antoine Laurain
A letter delivered after a 33 year delay sparks a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and a journey right into the heart of France today.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Eskimo Solution
Pascal Garnier
A struggling writer’s crime novel is spilling over into his own life…
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Angels Die
Yasmina Khadra
Award winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two world wars.
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AARDVARK BUREAUMax Gate
Damien Wilkins
The story of Thomas Hardy’s death told by his housemaid Nellie.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Life of Elves
Muriel Barbery
The highly anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Weaver Fish
Robert Edeson
A captivating zoological, mathematical, technological, aeronautical literary thriller – unlike anything you’ve read before.
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GALLIC BOOKSToo Close to the Edge
Pascal Garnier
A widow’s quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Sun King Conspiracy
Yves Jégo
Denis Lépée
A tale of religious brotherhoods, corruption, romantic intrigues and political scheming at the court of Louis XIV.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Infinite Air
Fiona Kidman
The rise and fall of the ‘Garbo of the skies’, as told by one of New Zealand’s finest novelists.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Children’s Home
Charles Lambert
A beguiling and disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor.
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GALLIC BOOKSIn Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way – A Graphic Novel
Marcel Proust
Stéphane Heuet
The greatest French literary masterpiece of all time is now available as a graphic novel.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt
Tracy Farr
A novel about music and modernity, with an unforgettable octogenarian heroine.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Dictator’s Last Night
Yasmina Khadra
A fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most controversial figures of recent history: President Gaddafi
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AARDVARK BUREAUWhen the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow
Dan Rhodes
A laugh-out-loud satire on dogma, which tests the limits of freedom of expression.
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Miner
Natsume Soseki
The most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of the great Meiji writer Natsume Sōseki.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Lady Agnes Mystery: Volume 2
Andrea Japp
Part two of the story of Agnès de Souarcy, a tale of intrigue set in medieval France
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AARDVARK BUREAUThe Last Pier
Roma Tearne
The acclaimed novel, now published by Aardvark Bureau
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Lady Agnes Mystery: Volume 1
Andrea Japp
Part one of the story of Agnès de Souarcy, a tale of intrigue set in medieval France.
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GALLIC BOOKSSagan, Paris 1954
Anne Berest
Before Françoise Sagan the literary icon there was Françoise Quoirez, an 18 year-old Parisian who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for i…
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GALLIC BOOKSBoxes
Pascal Garnier
He was the sole survivor of the natural disaster that at one time or another strikes us all, known as ‘moving house’.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Red Notebook
Antoine Laurain
‘He was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman’s handbag.’
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GALLIC BOOKSGeorge’s Grand Tour
Caroline Vermalle
A poignant yet joyful tale of how life can surprise us, at any age.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe African Equation
Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra takes current events as a starting point to explore opposing views and myths of Africa and the West.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Foundling’s War
Michel Déon
The sequel to the The Foundling Boy finds Jean making his way in German-occupied France.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Poisoning Angel
Jean Teulé
A shocking yet entertaining novel based on the story of real-life poisoner Hélène Jégado.
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GALLIC BOOKSUnder the Channel
Gilles Pétel
This tale of changing identities is no ordinary crime novel.It starts with a murder midway through the Channel Tunnel.
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GALLIC BOOKSNagasaki
Éric Faye
Based on a true story. Winner of the 2010 Académie Française novel award.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Front Seat Passenger
Pascal Garnier
‘Avanti!’ meets ‘Misery’ meets Quentin Tarantino in this Pascal Garnier’s noir.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe People in the Photo
Hélène Gestern
‘The three figures in the photograph are frozen for ever, two men and a woman bathed in sunlight.’
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Foundling Boy
Michel Déon
A modern French classic translated into English for the first time.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Hurlyburly’s Husband
Jean Teulé
A man, his wife – and the King that came between them.
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GALLIC BOOKSMonsieur le Commandant
Romain Slocombe
French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942.
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GALLIC BOOKSSomeone I Loved
Anna Gavalda
‘How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them?’
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GALLIC BOOKSMoon in a Dead Eye
Pascal Garnier
Pascal Garnier turns his dark vision and ruthless wit to the inhabits of a retirement village in the south of France.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe President’s Hat
Antoine Laurain
A charm-filled story about the power residing in a very special hat.
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GALLIC BOOKSHelena Rubinstein
Michèle Fitoussi
She understood women. She understood beauty. And she started a revolution.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe A26
Pascal Garnier
The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Confidant
Hélène Grémillon
A gripping study of the destruction unleashed when human desires for love and motherhood turn to obsession.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Dream Killer of Paris
Fabrice Bourland
Singleton and Trelawney return on the trail of a criminal mastermind
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Girl on Paper
Guillaume Musso
A story of friendship, love and the special place that books have in our lives.
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GALLIC BOOKSHow’s the Pain?
Pascal Garnier
Death is Simon’s business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast.
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GALLIC BOOKSBreaking Away
Anna Gavalda
Anna Gavalda explores the themes of time passing and the highs and lows of family life.
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GALLIC BOOKSFreedom Fries and Café Creme
Jocelyne Rapinac
Transatlantic tales of food and love … with recipes.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Baker’s Blood (Book 6)
Jean-François Parot
The sixth Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Panda Theory
Pascal Garnier
‘You’ve only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people’s lives, just like that.’
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GALLIC BOOKSCarnage
Maxime Chattam
A tense, original New York-based thriller from one of France’s foremost crime writers.
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GALLIC BOOKSEat Him If You Like
Jean Teulé
Based on a brutal incident, this riveting story shows how easily a group of individuals can turn into an irrational, bloodthirsty mob.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Elegance of the Hedgehog – GIFT EDITION
Muriel Barbery
A hardback gift edition of the worldwide bestseller.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Officer’s Prey
Armand Cabasson
The second in the Napleonic Murder trilogy
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GALLIC BOOKSWhere Would I Be Without You?
Guillaume Musso
Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere…
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GALLIC BOOKSHector and the Secrets of Love
François Lelord
The second of Hector’s Journeys
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Saint-Florentin Murders (Book 5)
Jean-François Parot
The fifth Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Baker Street Phantom
Fabrice Bourland
Evil haunts the streets of London in this first investigation for Singleton and Trelawney.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Gourmet
Muriel Barbery
A voluptuous and poignant meditation on food and its deeper significance in our lives.
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GALLIC BOOKSHector and the Search for Happiness
François Lelord
The first of Hector’s Journeys
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Nicolas Le Floch Affair (Book 4)
Jean-François Parot
The fourth Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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GALLIC BOOKSClisson and Eugenie
Napoléon Bonaparte
‘Their eyes met … and they soon knew that their hearts were made for each other.’
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GALLIC BOOKSCheckout
Anna Sam
Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say ‘thanks’ 500 times a day?
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Phantom of Rue Royale (Book 3)
Jean-François Parot
The third Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
By turns moving and hilarious, this unusual novel became the top-selling book in France in 2007.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Man with the Lead Stomach (Book 2)
Jean-François Parot
The second Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Suicide Shop
Jean Teulé
Has your life been a failure? Let’s make your death a success.
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GALLIC BOOKSThe Châtelet Apprentice (Book 1)
Jean-François Parot
The first Nicolas Le Floch mystery
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