The Paris Bookseller | Kerri Maher | When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookst
Kelly Gardiner | Goddess | A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d’A
Colette; Willy | Claudine at School | Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the small town of Montigny. Colette’s first novel is about Claudine’s adventu
Felix Forrest | Carola | A sophisticated, impressionistic recalling, in the avant- grade manner, of a globe-circling career of moral vagaries’ and political posturings that re
Philip Barrows | Whores, Queers And Others | Classic of gay literature, and a 10-year chronicle of life split between post-war Paris, Italy, and New York. This seminal title, helping to transitio
Julia Van Haaften | Berenice Abbott | The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and i
Qiu Miaojin | Last Words From Montmartre | ‘An NYRB Classics Original Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lov
Murray Constantine; Margaret Goldsmith | Venus In Scorpio | Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting lesbianism in her adolescence.
