Publisher: Gallic Books
Read an extract from The Saint-Florentin Murders by Jean-François Parot
Posted On: September 2, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
The fifth exciting adventure for Nicolas Le Floch, to be published in October, has it all: serial crimes and a bizarre murder weapon, as well as debauchery, espionage, and the follies of a young court where ancient rivalries and grudges still linger. Read the prologue and first chapter exclusively here on Bookhugger…
Read More...Read an extract from the fifth Victor Legris Mystery, The Predator of Batignolles
Posted On: August 20, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
In the turbulent Parisian summer of 1893, Victor Legris has vowed to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing to concentrate on selling books. But a murderer is at large in Paris, intent on revenge for events that took place many years before during the Commune.
Read More...Read an extract from The Baker Street Phantom
Posted On: August 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Read on for an enticing extract from Fabrice Bourland’s first fantasy crime novel…
Read More...Read an extract from The Breath of the Rose by Andrea Japp
Posted On: June 28, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Alencon, September 1304. Imprisoned by the Inquisition, Agnes de Souarcy faces interrogation and torture. At the same time, the religious community of Clairets Abbey is shaken to the core when a nun is horrifically poisoned by a murderer hidden in its midst.
Read More...Muriel Barbery talks about The Gourmet
Posted On: May 14, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
Muriel Barbery is the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and The Gourmet. In this interview, the media-shy Frenchwoman reveals to Jennifer Whitehead the joy she took in writing The Gourmet; the shadow Marcel Proust casts over French literature; and why she won’t tell us about her most memorable meal.
Read More...Hector and the Search for Happiness video interview
Posted On: May 3, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Gallic Books
Hector and the Search for Happiness, which has sold well over 2 million copies worldwide, has just been published in English. George Miller met the author, Francois Lelord, recently to find out more about this modern-day fable. This short video is the result.
Read More...An extract from Hector and the Search for Happiness
Posted On: April 7, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He’s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they’re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can’t do much for them, and it’s beginning to depress him. In this extract, follow him to China in his search for what it means to be happy.
Read More...An interview with François Lelord
Posted On: April 5, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
François Lelord has had a successful career as a psychiatrist both in the United States and France. He now devotes his time to writing, and is the author (in conjunction with Christophe André) of a number of best-selling self-help books. His new novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, has just been published by Gallic Books.
Read More...Read an extract from The Nicolas le Floch Affair, by Jean-François Parot
Posted On: March 25, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Commissioner Le Floch’s adventures reach their fourth instalment in Jean-François Parot’s acclaimed historical crime series.
Read More...An interview with Jean-Francois Parot, by Anna Brown
Posted On: February 24, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
Anna Brown interviews Gallic Books’ master of historical crime, Jean-Francois Parot, and talks to him about diplomacy, food, and his creation, police commissioner Nicolas le Floch.
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Sun King Rises
Posted On: January 19, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Enjoy the first chapter of Jego Yves and Lepee Denis’s explosive historical thriller with Bookhugger.
Read More...Join Hector in his search for happiness
Posted On: December 2, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He’s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they’re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can’t do much for them, and it’s beginning to depress him.
Read More...Win a signed set of The Victor Legris Mysteries [closed]
Posted On: November 19, 2009Posted In: Articles, Competitions, Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
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Read an extract from Death on the Eiffel Tower and you could win the first three Victor Legris adventures, historical crime fiction set in fin-de-siècle Paris.
Read More...Napoleon’s Clisson & Eugénie: An extract
Posted On: November 5, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Few people realise that the legendary French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte found time during his youth to write a novella. Read an extract here on Bookhugger.
Read More...Read an extract from Memory of Flames, by Armand Cabasson
Posted On: October 12, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
March 1814. With enemy advancing, Paris is in real danger of falling to occupying forces. But at a moment when all efforts should be directed towards the defence of the city, Joseph Bonaparte is concerned with the murder of a retired colonel, and orders Colonel Quentin Margont to conduct an investigation into his death.
Read More...Napoleon’s Novella: Clisson & Eugénie
Posted On: October 5, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Gallic Books
Few people realise that the legendary French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte found time during his youth to write a novella. Gallic Books are publishing a new edition of this work, translated by Peter Hicks, to include a fascinating psychological insight by award-winning author Armand Cabassaon.
Read More...The pleasures of Paris: eighteenth century prostitution
Posted On: September 24, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Gallic Books
Newly released in August, The Nicolas Le Floch Affair is the fourth in Jean-François Parot’s Nicolas Le Floch murder investigations, set in eighteenth century pre-revolutionary Paris.
Read More...Get a flavour of The Gourmet
Posted On: September 2, 2009Posted In: Extracts, Reading Groups
Publisher: Gallic Books
France’s greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed, he is tormented by an inability to recall the most delicious food to ever pass his lips, which he ate long before becoming a critic.
Read More...Before The Hedgehog
Posted On: August 31, 2009Posted In: Extracts, Reading Groups
Publisher: Gallic Books
Following the success of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, French author Muriel Barbery’s first novel, The Gourmet, is published in English this month. Centring on an ailing food critic and his search for a perfect flavour from his youth, it features some of the same characters as The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Read More...An interview with Anna Sam
Posted On: August 11, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
She’s been described as a ‘figurehead’ for cashiers; an ‘unsung heroine’ of ignored checkout girls. But for Anna Sam, a French cashier-turned-bestselling author, the motivation to put pen to paper was much more modest.
Read More...Jane Aitken from Gallic Books on the joys of French fiction
Posted On: July 22, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Gallic Books
Jane Aitken, Managing Director of Gallic Books, talks about what French fiction got to offer to an English-speaking audience, and the challenges of marketing it in an already crowded marketplace.
Read More...Andrea Japp: The French Connection
Posted On: July 18, 2009Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
French author Andrea Japp continues her series of mystery novels, featuring Agnes de Souarcy, this month with the third in the sequence, The Divine Blood. Set in 14th century Normandy, the books combine crime fiction with historical detail, and have proved a hit both in her native France and abroad.
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