Author : Anna Gavalda
Publisher : Europa Editions Incorporated
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450052
Siblings Simon, Garance, and Lola flee a dull family wedding to visit brother Vincent, who is working as a guide in the French countryside, and they forget about the many demands of adulthood and lose themselves in a day of memories.
Author : Patrick deWitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 152660115X
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGES A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers 'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette 'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday 'Buoyantly insane' New Yorker Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters. Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.
Author : Liz Ryan
Publisher : Liberties Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1909718106
It was when she realised she was spending twelve hours a week and five thousand euro a year commuting to work that Liz Ryan began to question how great life in boom-time Ireland really was - and reached a decision the day an enraged biker hurled a helmet at her windscreen. So she quit her job, sold her house and moved to a remote hamlet in coastal Normandy. Thus begins her French adventure, in which she gets picked up by the police, discovers the mixed pleasures of French homeownership - flooded basements, grim neighbours, surreal phone companies, busybody mayors - and embraces the challenges of creating a new life in a new country. Liz hilariously charts her gradual immersion into village life, the setbacks and the joys, the local political intrigue, the Gallic shrug and that famous French bureaucracy - and paradoxical French attitudes to food, politics, sport, dating, and shopping on the grand scale. But like any expat, even as she revels in new pleasures she also experiences the tug-of-war between fresh fields and the place of one's birth, the craic, the humour and the warm embrace of lifelong friends.
Author : Daniel Anselme
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0865478961
A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear. Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.
Author : Liz Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781907593130
A wonderfully witty and insightful memoir of ten years spent living in Normandy. Author and journalist Liz Ryan charts the pleasures and setbacks of her gradual immersion into French village life, as well as explaining the often paradoxical French attitudes to food, dieting, sport, shopping on the grand scale, and their perceptions of their Anglophone neighbors. Originally from Dublin, Ryan relates her adventures in this funny and informative book. Liz Ryan is a best selling novelist in Ireland who wrote for the Irish Independent and the Irish Daily Mail.
Author : Erin French
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0553448439
An evocative, gorgeous four-season look at cooking in Maine, with 100 recipes No one can bring small-town America to life better than a native. Erin French grew up in Freedom, Maine (population 719), helping her father at the griddle in his diner. An entirely self-taught cook who used cookbooks to form her culinary education, she now helms her restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, in a historic mill in the same town, creating meals that draw locals and visitors from around the world to a dining room that feels like an extension of her home kitchen. The food has been called “brilliant in its simplicity and honesty” by Food & Wine, and it is exactly this pure approach that makes Erin’s cooking so appealing—and so easy to embrace at home. This stunning giftable package features a vellum jacket over a printed cover.
Author : Tana French
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780670038602
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
Author : Jim Field
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781444932683
Monsieur Roscoe and his goldfish, Fry, are off on the holiday of a lifetime - and you're invited too! From the multi-award-winning, bestselling illustrator of Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside. Monsieur Roscoe is going on holiday! Join him and his goldfish, Fry, as they camp, ski and sail their way through the journey of a lifetime, making friends and learning lots of new French words along the way. A fun and colourful picture book from the bestselling illustrator of Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside, Monsieur Roscoe will make learning French exciting for the youngest children.
Author : Richard Binns
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : France
ISBN : 9780091796235
'I used to have a book called French Leave by Richard Binns, which was a self-published, dotty, obsessive, but largely dependable guide to half-hidden France. Richard Binns knows his stuff and it would be great to have a 21st century revision.' Sebastian Faulks, The Sunday Times Ultimate French Leave is a passionate and in-depth guide to the real France - off the beaten track and truly memorable. Richard Binns uses his many years of experience to take the independent traveller on an intimate tour around forty-four unique or overlooked areas of France, each covered by a detailed map. The sights, sounds and simple pleasures of rural and pastoral regions are here revealed, with hotel and restaurant recommendations to suit all pockets and tastes. Also included is an indispensable glossary of menu terms and notes on the many regional specialities that France has to offer.
Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1118039688
"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" -Barbara Wallraff Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court Praise for A Word a Day "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who use them have curious stories to tell too, and this collection incorporates some of the correspondence received by the editors at the AWAD site, from advice on how to outsmart your opponent in a duel (or even a truel) to a cluster of your favorite mondegreens." -John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary "A banquet of words! Feast and be nourished!" -Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective." each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors.
