Examining the collaborationist policies of Marshal Petain's Vichy government during the Nazi occupation of France, Jackson's stunning history interrogates the greatest crisis of the French t... SEE MORE

A sweeping tour of French history from the 17th century to the present day from the highly acclaimed author of The German Genius   SEE MORE

The perfect history book for anyone travelling to France. Packed with information from the Sun King to Monet, via chateaux and artists’ cafes, this is an adroit whistle-stop tour illuminatin... SEE MORE

A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the YearA brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished histo... SEE MORE

From Coco Chanel to Cole Porter and Jean Paul Sartre to The Rolling Stones, Miles' deliciously gossipy and wickedly entertaining history of the French Riviera brings a tiny strip of coastlin... SEE MORE

For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic... SEE MORE

The novel that made the literary icon’s name, Fiesta reeks of the macho, bohemian Spain of the interwar years and contains some of the best writing about bullfighting in twentieth century li... SEE MORE

One of the undisputed jewels of American fiction, Fitzgerald’s dazzling critique of the superficiality of the Jazz Age captures the glamorous facade at the heart of the American Dream in dev... SEE MORE

What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... SEE MORE