When David Mercier, a mid-level accountant whose Parisian life has seemingly plateaued, decides to make the most of his wife and son’s trip to Brittany by treating himself to a bachelor, brasserie dinner of oysters, the only alterations he anticipates are those to his bank balance and his belt. B...
A wonderfully whimsical novel that could only have been concocted by the mind of a French person - and I mean that as huge compliment. So here we get the magic and mystery of the hat, but also ideas about fate and destiny, about life and depression, about love - of course - and about class, art,...
Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be fr...
Pierre Aslan identified the scent as Eau d’Hadrien, created by Annick Goutal in 1981. But there was also another perfume on the hat, a more recent addition: bergamot, pink jasmine, sweet myrrh, vanilla, iris and tonka bean. Pierre could have recited the ingredients of the second scent forwards or...