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Published in France in 2006, and translated in 44 countries, selling over 10 million copies worldwide. 

Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. Then her Japanese father, that she never knew, dies and she finds herself leaving France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will.

Initially an awkward houseguest, Rose gradually comes to discover her father's legacy, finding gifts greater than she had ever imagined.

'Interlacing the glories of Japan with the desolation of grief'

Elle

David Foenkinos is the author of 18 novels, that have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Hundreds of actors auditioned, but only two remained. This novel tells the fictional story of the boy who wasn't chosen. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, when he makes it down to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter. In the end, the other boy is picked, and a devastated Martin tries to move on with his life.

 But how can he escape his failure, when trying to avoid the most famous film series in the world?

From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women, comes an elegant, hypnotic novel about a legendary French female chef, and her obsessive, and sometimes destructive, quest to be the best.

 Told from the perspective of her former assistant (and unrequited lover), this is the story of how one woman's remarkable talent shaped her life, love, and career.

'The Cheffe joins the remarkable procession of intense, passionate heroines of Marie NDiaye'

​Télérama

A dystopian, speculative novel from Jewish-Czech author Martin Vopěnka.

It's 2103, Earth is baking and Eli is being haunted by premonitions of what will come: a world in which children stop being born. 

After these predictions come to pass, only The Followers of Eli are able to bear new life. And as the rest of the world watches on, his brother Marek must now lead the commune. But when Marek's wife is snatched, he suspects both the followers and outside forces are to blame. 

Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Türkiye's great cities to seek a serene existence in a dream-like village.

Kenan, an old friend from the army, is there to greet him. However, the village turns out to be not quite everything Ziya had hoped for...

Reckless masterfully blurs the boundaries between memory and reality to create a gripping tale, that introduces a major writer to English language readers.