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Odyssée focuses on daily life situations with plenty of practical activities for students to try out what they have learnt.

Inspire uses a task-based approach to enable students to practice French in context in real-life situations.

An innovative, modern, motivating course that has French-speaking cultures and interculturality at its core.

A beginner's course that encourages students to work together as they learn French, to cooperate to solve tasks, to discuss together and think about how the language works.

A< vous ! is a communicative course for older teenagers and adult learners to acquire all the skills of level A1 of the CEFR combining print and digital resources.

With a variety of characters of different nationalities, A< la une raises awareness of cultures across the French-speaking world.

Cosmopolite engages students in innovative learning of French language and culture through real life situations shared by French, francophone and francophile people around the world.

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Perfect to time travel and feel transported to an other era. Also a good way to learn more about history and culture.

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The best ressources to learn French

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Un mélange d'ouvrages classiques et modernes de littérature sentimentale. Parfair pour vos lectures au bord de la plage cet été !

Classic thrillers

Miss Marple and her Tuesday Club tackle a series of complex puzzles.

By Agatha Christie

£8.55

Ce polar de Georges Simenon change des autres, il y mêle ses souvenirs d'enfance.

By Georges Simenon

£9.50

11 puzzles that pit Sherlock Holmes against his arch nemesis Moriarty.

By Arthur Conan Doyle

£7.75

Stephen King nous raconte un monde ou les femmes n'existent plus.

By Stephen King

£15.75

Simenon nous offre ici un polar pas comme les autres...

By Georges Simenon

£9.40

Study Maigret's methods of investigation to discover the man who is Simeon's famous detective.

By Jean-Baptiste Baronian

£16.75

Un thriller original qui vous tiendra en haleine du début à la fin.

By Sébastien Japrisot

£12.95

Trois nouvelles mettant en scène le célèbre commissaire Adamsberg.

By Fred Vargas

£9.55

The FBI turns to Dr. Hannibal Lecter for an insight into the deadly madman they are pursuing.

By Thomas Harris

£9.95

A Harvard symbology specialist is summoned to the Louvre when the curator is brutally murdered.

By Dan Brown

£13.50

Livres LGBT

Ce livre raconte une très belle histoire d'amour avec les hauts et les bas que nous rencontrons à cet âge.

£10.50

Erwan Ji nous présente un roman moderne à travers la vie de la trépidente Capucine.

£11.95

Un classique qu'il faut absolument lire, pleins de douleurs mais aussi magnifique.

£9.95

Ce roman nous montre comme il peut-être difficile de grandir homosexuel dans un contexte hostile.

£11.95

Cette BD représente parfaitement les diffucltés que peuvent rencontrer les jeunes qui se cherche encore.

£19.50

Un livre bouleversant avec des personnages attachants.

£10.95

Inceste, identité de genre, relations familiales...ce roman aborde des sujets importants avec humour et légèreté.

£13.95

Un livre très facile à lire mais aussi très intense et bouleversant.

£9.45

Une histoire sensible ainsi qu'une grande lecçon d'acceptation de soi.

£18.95

Jeanette Winterson nous raconte comment elle découvre sa sexualité dans une famille très protestante.

£13.95

Littérature Francophone

Loin de tout cliché, La Belle Créole peint dans une tonalité sombre le destin d'un grand héros romantique.

£10.95

Quête initiatique et formidable roman d'aventures, La Jarre d'or est aussi une réflexion sur le mystère de l'écriture et la condition de l'écrivain dans une culture dominée par l'oralité.

£10.95

An international sensation, Petit Pays is a beautiful but harrowing tale of coming-of-age in the face of civil war

£10.75

Egarés dans le labyrinthe de leurs obsessions,entravés dans leurs tentatives de révolte, les personnages de ces nouvelles donnent à voir l'Algérie contemporaine dans sa violence refoulée et son absurdité.

£6.80

Plongez dans l'histoire de l'Algérie à travers des personnages attachants.

£11.95

A woman is abandoned by her husband and tries to rebuild herself through sculpture.

£6.80

Le narrateur nous raconte son amour pour la fameuse Cheffe. Encore un très beau roman de Marie Ndiaye.

£11.95

Tahar Ben Jelloun nous raconte l'évolution d'une maladie dont on parle encore trop peu.

£13.95

L'auteur nous fait voyager à Brazzaville au Congo durant une période qui va changer l'histoire du pays.

£15.95

Entre politique, fiction et conte voltairien, Aux États-Unis d'Afrique illustre de manière éclatante, malicieuse, grave, l'injustice ordinaire à l'échelle du monde.

£8.80

Foreign literature in French translation

R.M. Rilke partage ses réflexions sur la vocation poétique.

By Rainer Maria Rilke

£6.30

Trois Hommes dans un bateau - un classique de l'humour anglais.

By Geneviève Brisac

£7.70

Middlemarch is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.

By George Eliot

£19.75

Lotte in Weimar.

By Thomas Mann

£9.95

A terrifying trip into the life of a man accused of a crime he did not committ...

By Franz Kafka

£7.30

The Canterville Ghost and other stories.

By Oscar Wilde

£4.55

Officers and Gentlemen

By Evelyn Waugh

£11.50

One of the greatest gothic love stories of all time.

By Emily Brontë

£8.50

Treasure Island - who hasn't dreamed of finding treasure?

By Robert Louis Stevenson

£5.30

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera

£13.95

Animal Farm

By George Orwell

£6.55

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England.

By Elizabeth Gaskell

£14.75

A story of inter-war England.

By Virginia Woolf

£5.85

Une collection des contes les plus célèbres mais egalement des récits plus intimes.

By Hans Christian Andersen

£9.85

On trouvera ici l'intégralité des échanges conservés entre Lewis Carroll et Alice Liddell, ainsi qu'un choix de lettres à ses autres amies.

By Lewis Carroll

£6.70

One of the greatest Russian novels.

By Alexandre Pouchkine

£12.50

Catherine Sloper requires her father's permission to marry, he is a rich man - what will be the outcome?

By Henry James

£12.95

Une histoire de famille

By Wilkie Collins

£11.95

Children's classics in French translations

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

£12.50

Alice in Wonderland.

£3.35

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

£12.75

The Beatrix Potter classic, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in French.

£8.20

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

£19.95

James and the Giant Peach.

£9.95

Treasure Island - who hasn't dreamed of finding treasure?

£3.35

Roald Dahl, l'un des plus grands auteurs contemporains se souvient de ses années d'enfance.

£10.95

The Call of the Wild.

£3.95

Paddington organises the Browns' family holiday in France...

£9.70

Marie est fascinée par son cadeau : Casse-Noisette.

£4.35

Traditional tales for teens - graded readers

Can Baron Sigognac protect his love Isabelle from the duke pursuing her?

By Théophile Gautier

£9.90

Arsène Lupin - a gentleman thief who steals from the rich and never gets caught...

By Maurice Leblanc

£9.90

A collection of classic fairytales.

By Charles Perrault, Dominique Guillemant

£9.90

The Little Prince has a marvellous tale to tell...

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Domitille Hatuel

£9.90

The timeless tale of Tristan and Isolde.

By Anonyme

£9.90

Arsène Lupin a gentleman thief who steals from the rich but never gets caught...

By Maurice Leblanc

£10.50

The classic tale of 18-year-old d'Artagnan who travels to Paris to become a Musketeer.

By Alexandre Dumas

£9.90

A collection of medieval stories.

By Anon

£9.90

A disturbing classic of fantastic literature. Can a bronze statue marry and then kill a man?

By Prosper Merimee

£9.90

The classic tale of 18-year-old d'Artagnan who travels to Paris to become a Musketeer.

By Colette Samson

£12.50

New French literature

On the eve of his wedding, a young man discovers the identity of his father...

By Marie-Hélène Lafon

£10.50

A parisian writer comes to Britanny to write a story about the ancestors of a young local woman.

By Carole Martinez

£10.95

Half novel, half essay, La vie ordinaire ponders everyday life...

By Adèle Van Reeth

£10.50

By David Foenkinos

£10.95

Anouk leaves her life in Montreal and sets off for the Canadian wild to live off the grid, but her solitary life will be shortlived...

By Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba

£9.60

Four teenagers, living a life cut off from the world, away in the mountains.

By Franck Bouysse

£11.75

A writer struggles to find inspiration... and decides to write the story of the first person he meets in the street.

By David Foenkinos

£12.50

In Brussels, a young woman is hired by a wealthy man to help his dyslexic son fall in love with reading.

By Amélie Nothomb

£9.85

Two ex-lovers find each other after thirty years apart...

By Agnès Ledig

£8.95

A man receives a call from his estranged younger brother who is at the hospital...

By Yann Queffélec

£10.75

Coup de cœur libraire

Anne-Marie is alone now, all her kids had left home to live their own life. What is she going to do?

By Philippe Besson

£9.55

A car is discovered in a lake. Virginie, a journalist,is covering the event. She will find answers but also a beautiful friendship history.

By Valérie Perrin

£13.95

A writer, a friendship and a dead body...This is what makes La verité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert a good thriller.

By Joël Dicker

£10.75

Un roman qui vous fera passer du rire, aux larmes, en passant par la joie. Anna Gavalda nous offre juste un flot d'émotions.

By Anna Gavalda

£12.95

The destinies of three Muslim women in Northern Cameroon, torn between their faith, community and personal aspirations.

By Amadou Amal

£11.50

David Foenkinos nous raconte l'histoire d'un anti-héros, de celui qui a failli être Harry Potter.

By David Foenkinos

£18.75

Jean-Christophe Rufin donne vie á Aurel dans le premier volet de ces aventures. Suivre cet anti-héros au charme désuet est un plaisir de lecture mais aussi un moyen de découvrir les secrets les mieux gardés de la vie internationale.

By Jean-Christophe Rufin

£10.75

Partez avec Sylvain Tesson sur les traces de la Grande Armée Napoléonienne.

By Sylvain Tesson

£10.95

Je revenais des autres is a story of a new beginning. We follow the characters through their doubts,love and hate.

By Mélissa Da Costa

£12.75

What if your brain was still functioning for 10 minutes after you died? That is what happened to Leila, enough time to tell us her story.

By Elif Shafak

£11.95

Classic readers for adults

After spending nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean is a free man at last. But what does the future hold for him?

By Victor Hugo

£11.95

The classic story of a woman, her lovers and dreams set in a bourgeois province.

By Gustave Flaubert

£11.95

Cyrano de Bergerac is a gifted orator, poet, and heroic soldier who does not fear anyone with a sword in his hand, but can he find love?

By Edmond Rostand

£11.95

Jeanne travels across Normandy to the castle where she will live and raise a child.

By Guy de Maupassant

£11.95

Augustin Meaulnes goes missing from his boarding school. When he returns he has changed...

By Alain Fournier

£11.95

Members of two rival gangs confront each other and start "The War of the Buttons".

By Louis Pergaud

£8.95

A revolutionary project to build a rocket to travel to the Moon but will it succeed?

By Jules Verne

£5.70

Wuthering Heights - one of the greatest gothic love stories.

By Emily Brontë

£5.70

A carpenters' son's ambitions are thwarted by his feelings...

By Stendhal

£5.70

Germain le laboureur, son fils Petit Pierre et Marie la bergère quittent ensemble le village.

By George Sand

£8.95

This poetic tale makes universal observations about love, friendship and life.

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, R Boutégège

£12.95

Tartarin decides to go lion hunting in Africa... and so begin his fun adventures!

By Alphonse Daudet, Amandine Barthés

£12.95

A selection of fables from Jean de La Fontaine.

By Jean De La Fontaine, Jérôme Lechevalier

£11.95

The lives of four characters intertwine around Notre-Dame cathedral in medieval Paris.

By Victor Hugo

£12.95

Follow the Musketeer's adventures during a difficult period of 17th-century.

By Alexandre Dumas

£12.95

Around the World in 80 Days

By Jules Verne

£11.50

Jean Cadoret inherits his uncle's farm but has severe difficulties coping with the unfamiliar rural conditions in a village where strangers are not easily accepted into the community.

By Marcel Pagnol, Marcel Pagnol

£12.95

A collection of six short stories, each of them a variation on the theme of love.

By Françoise Sagan, Françoise Sagan

£9.70

An apparently motiveless attempt to murder a tramp requires investigation by Maigret, the renowned police inspector. Who wanted to kill this unfortunate man, and why?

By Georges Simenon

£12.95

Four stories following the adventures of Arsène Lupin.

By Maurice Leblanc

£13.50

A sister's possessive love for her brother.

By Jean Cocteau

£9.90

Etienne Lantier brings hope to the families of miners who live in great poverty, he organises a strike but the revolt goes wrong...

By Émile Zola

£8.45

The script from this most thought-provoking of films.

By Marguerite Duras

£8.45

One of the first novels in which the hero is a child. The adventures of RÃ©mi, the foundling, take place in nineteenth century France, a touching story that still touches us today ... And that ends well."

By Hector Malot

£8.45

A view of the sixties in Paris, where long-standing values were challenged by a rebellious younger generation.

By Marie Cardinal

£8.00

Classic fairy tales for children learning French

The story of the Musicians of Bremen.

£8.95

The tale of Puss in Boots.

By J Percival, C Durand

£6.25

The fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.

£8.95

The tale of King Blue Beard.

By Isabelle Parisot

£5.70

The tale of Little Red Riding Hood.

£8.95

The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

£8.95

The fable of the Hare and the Tortoise.

£8.95

The story of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.

£8.95

The fable of the North Wind and the Sun.

£8.95

The tale of Cinderella.

£8.95

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Follow Marie to experience life as a seven year old in Paris.

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Découvrez le tome 2 des aventures toujours plus folles d'Artemis.

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A collection of Hoffmann's short stories.

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A double disc compiliaton featuring 39 songs by French singer France Gall.

£10.21 £5.11

An invaluable guide for anyone living or working in France.

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A French course to take your students around the French-speaking world. For children aged 8 to 10.

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Fully illustrated watercolour-style drawings and text adapted from an original French schoolbook combine to produce a charming book of French history.

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