Publisher: Gallic Books
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.
Read More...Best of the Web: check out Anna Sam
Posted On: July 15, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Gallic Books
Anna Sam is making a big splash with Checkout, her account of the eight years she spent working behind a French supermarket checkout. Here’s some of the best coverage, and a link to her appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek too.
Read More...Read an extract of Checkout – A Life on the Tills
Posted On: June 26, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Anna Sam spent 8 years as a checkout girl. Checkout – A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what it’s really like to work in a supermarket: the relentless grind and less-than-perfect working conditions, along with people-watching and encounters with every kind of customer from the bizarre to the downright rude.
Read More...A Rare Interview with Muriel Barbery
Posted On: May 30, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
Following paperback publication in the UK of international success story The Elegance of the Hedgehog, read a rare interview with author Muriel Barbery.
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