In this first installment in Georges Simenon's legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of…

Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994, this book explores the life of Georges Perecan, and anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in…

Originally published in French as Le condottiaere, A 2012 by aEditions du Seuil –Title page verso.

First published in book form as L'art et la maniere d'aborder son chef de service pour lui demander une augmentation –T.p. verso.

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a…

Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel’s atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon…

The story of how Victor Hugo wrote Les Misaerables and why it became among the most influential and protean works of art ever created –

Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories…