In her celebrated 1964 memoir La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc recounts the genesis of her first novel, at the instigation of her friend and weary confidant, the writer Maurice Sachs:&n
The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories is the first title in Gallic Books’ new ‘Revolutionary Women’ list, launched last month ‘to celebrate French and Francophone women w
This is one of those books you could devour in a few hours but which then baits the mind for a long time afterwards with the question ‘What was it really about?’ The writing st
Real life isn’t as static and as matter of fact as we might think. We simply limit the vocabulary about our lives, telling ourselves only one or two stories about who we are: We
WIN tickets to see Antoine Laurain at *Euro Stars* – Waterstones Piccadilly, London Gallic Books are giving away 2 sets of tickets for you and the all important + 1 to atten
We meet the protagonist and narrator of Yasmina Khadra’s The Angels Die just before his execution. Turambo is an Algerian Arab living under French colonial rule in the 1920s. He
In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Adaptation and drawings by Stéphane Heuet Published by Gallic Books (February 2016) The
Yasmina Khadra’s imagining of the final hours of Colonel Gaddafi, The Dictator’s Last Night, was released globally last month by Gallic Books. Khadra offers a unique panorama o
‘The Lady Agnes Mystery’, Vol.1 by Andrea Japp, translated by Lorenza García, part one of the story of Agnès de Souarcy, a tale of intrigue set in medieval France, p
‘Sagan, Paris 1954’ by Anne Berest Translated by Heather Lloyd Published by Gallic Books This intimate narrative charts the months in 1954 leading up to the publicatio
