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    Medieval French on the Move

    When Keith Busby published his field-shaping Codex and Context in 2002, the work was referred to as 'groundbreaking' and 'monumental'. It prompted scholars of medieval literature to return to manuscripts…

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    French Exit

    Patrick deWitt

    A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2

    A major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century.

    The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone…

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

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    A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries

    The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous…

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    Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

    Patrick French (Author)

    Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travelling through the country, the author meets…

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    Liberty or Death: India’s Journey to Independence and Division

    Patrick French (Author)

    At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain’s 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled…

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    Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

    Patrick French

    Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travelling through the country, the author meets…

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    The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

    Patrick French

    Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

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    India: A Portrait

    Patrick French

    In only six decades since independence, India has gone from a place associated with some of the most wretched poverty on Earth to one that, economically, could dominate the 21st…

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    The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

    Patrick French

    French offers the first authoritative biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only stated ambition was greatness as a writer, in pursuit of which nothing else was sacred.

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    India: A Portrait

    French, Patrick,Patrick French

    India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless identities. Is there any way to discover the ‘real’ India? This book tells the…

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    The Golden Woman: The Authorized Biography of Doris Lessing

    Patrick French

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    Dark Rites

    Patrick Thomas, John L French

    When Darkness Falls... The DMA Picks Up The Pieces.

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    Notes from the Dream House: Selected Film Reviews 1963-2013

    Philip French

    A “best of’ selection of reviews by the trail-blazing English film critic and BBC editor.

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    The Tel Quel Reader

    Presenting for the first time in English the key essays written by the Tel Quel group, this book provides a unique insight into the post-structuralist movement with respect to literature…

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    Make Believe: A True Story

    Diana Athill (Y)

    Diana Athill met Black Power activist Hakim Jamal when she edited his book, From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me. Against all odds, they became friends, sometimes lovers.

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    Make Believe: A True Story

    Diana Athill (Y)

    Diana Athill’s account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.

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    French Shoes-2007

    Patrick, Sart

    In a round-about-way, demand for a closer inspection of the shoe designs of Patrick Sart necessitates this third volume, French Shoes 2007. He further expounds on this subject: Always au…

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    French Shoes-2007

    Patrick, Sart

    In a round-about-way, demand for a closer inspection of the shoe designs of Patrick Sart necessitates this third volume, French Shoes 2007. He further expounds on this subject: Always au…

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    French Exit

    Patrick DeWitt

    Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband’s tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. –Publisher’s description.

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    French Exit

    Patrick DeWitt

    Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband’s tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. –Publisher’s description.

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    French Exit

    Patrick DeWitt

    Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband’s tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. –Publisher’s description.

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    French Railways: A-Z

    Patrick Bennett

    A fascinating A-Z photographic guide to the railways of France. Using the authors own photographs as well as historic postcard views.

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    French Silk on Water

    Patrick Hill

    A wonderful view of the sometimes surprising back waters and friendships found by Patrick and Heather Hill from Lake Superior, along the Erie Canal, the Intra Coastal Waterway, and the…

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    Frankenstein: Monsters of The Abyss

    John French,Patrick Thomas

    The real story of Frankenstein is finally told from the monster’s point of view.

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    The French Socialists in Power, 1981-1986

    Patrick Mccarthy

    In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of…

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    French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times

    A selection of English translations of French poetry from medieval to modern times, in the hardcover Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet series –

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    French Wings No. 5: Morane-Saulnier Ms406

    Patrick Laureau

    French Wings No. 5: Morane-Saulnier MS406

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    French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times

    From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume…

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    The Happy Ship: Setting Forth the Adventures of Shorty and Patrick, U. S. S. Oklahoma (1913)

    Stephen French Whitman

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    The Assassins’ Ball

    Patrick Thomasr,John L French

    When it comes to murder at a convention of killers, everyone is a suspect.

    Husband and wife private investigators Jack and Annie Gardner are very good at their jobs. He’s…

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    The Men of the First French Republic: Political Alignments in the National Convention of 1792

    Alison Patrick

    Patrick looks first at parliamentary behavior, particularly in the tumultuous first eight months, and then analyzes this behavior in terms of the deputies’ background.

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    Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance

    Patrick Marnham

    Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to…

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    The Price of Literature: The French Novel’s Theoretical Turn

    Patrick M. Bray

    Examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick Bray…

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    The Price of Literature: The French Novel’s Theoretical Turn

    Patrick M. Bray

    Examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick Bray…

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    Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History

    Patrick H. Hutton

    Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy. In this book, Patrick H…

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    Shadows & Brimstone: A Mystic Investigators Omnibus

    Patrick Thomas,John L French

    Omnibus of From The Shadows and Bullets & Brimstone paranormal mysteries.

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    The Assassins’ Ball

    Patrick Thomas,John L French

    When it comes to murder at a convention of killers, everyone is a suspect.

    Husband and wife private investigators Jack and Annie Gardner are very good at their jobs. He’s…

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    Detectives Of The Abyss

    Patrick Thomas, John L French

    Sherlock Holmes's goddaughter Dr. Jane Watson is called to solve a murder in Castle Dracula!

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2: From Colette to Marie NDiaye

    This two-volume feast of an anthology celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, its pages brim with decadent tales, ‘bloody tales’ and fairy tales, detective…

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    Mobility, Elites and Education in French Society of the Second Empire

    Patrick J. Harrigan

    Based on a unique historical source, this book examines the social origins, career expectations, and first jobs of 28,000 students in the elitist French secondary schools of the 1860s. Using…

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    The French Home Front, 1914-1918

    Goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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    The French Home Front, 1914-1918

    Explores the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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    Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory

    Maeve McCusker (French Studies, School of Languages, Literature & Performing Arts, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom))

    Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in…

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    Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism

    Patrick Noon

    Also published as Constable to Delacroix.

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