The French Bookshop - London's biggest stock of French language and literature books and courses

A warm, friendship story about a neglected Christmas tree.

Christmas is coming but there's panica - Santa has lost his hat!

Father Christmas has disappeared... where could he be?

An original tale about the origins of Father Christmas.

A little cat's sweater gets ruined in the middle of town.

Father Christmas goes to the barber for some little changes.

5 classic French Christmas songs in one book

Our Booksellers' Recommendations

Bookseller: Charlotte

Classic and thoughtful stories to read under the christmas tree

Bookseller: Nelly

The most recent rewarded books in French

Bookseller: Nelly

The best recipes from our regions

Books for well-being

A 4-week programme to discover and explore your chakras.

By Sioux Berger

£17.95

A global programme adapted to every moment of the day based on posture, breathing and healthy food.

By Julie Ferrez

£33.95

A 4-week programme to integrate a new fitness routine into your life.

By Nicolas Mbog

£9.60

A notebook for wild women to connect with their bodies and the natural world.

By Maëva Morin

£7.65

A practical guide to teach your children how to prepare for a technological future while protecting them from screen addiction.

By Carl De Miranda

£9.50

22 ways to identify and free yourself from emotional blockages.

By Natacha Calestrème

£18.95

The 20th anniversary edition of the international bestselling spiritual book.

By Eckhart Tolle

£9.95

Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power.

By C Pinkola Estes

£12.75

A fun guide for people feeling lost including questions, testimonies and advices from lost experts...

By Aurore Le Bihan

£17.95

One of the most complete book about lunar cycles and their effects on human beings.

By Paul Ferris

£17.95

Scary stories and mysteries

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

By Arthur Conan Doyle

£7.75

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

By Jean-Baptiste Baronian

£12.95

Hollywood, 1953. A failed film producer is offered his chance of a lifetime.

By Dominique Maisons

£8.50

Comical intrigue at the court of Marie-Antoinette

By Frédéric Lenormand

£13.75

A serial killer is murdering the beautiful women who meet in the afternoons at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.

By Jean-Christophe Grangé

£18.95

Arsène Lupin - A French Robin Hood.

By Maurice Leblanc

£10.95

A murderer haunts the streets of Paris at the dawn of the Revolution

By Henri Loevenbruck

£12.75

Murder at sea during the roaring twenties.

By Christian Carayon

£11.95

Sister Fidelma faces sectarianism and vendetta within an Irish community in 672.

By Peter Tremayne

£8.30

When the prototype of a device that enables users to explore people's dreams is stolen and her assistant vanishes, Atsuko is forced to investigate.

By Y Tsutsui

£14.50

An epidemiologist is murdered by a masked killer.

By Christian Jacq

£13.95

Four adventures for the same character, Antoine.

By Tonino Benacquista

£18.95

A policeman and a bellringer are found dead. Agatha Raisin investigates...

By M C Beaton

£20.95

Murderers call B to clean up any traces of their crimes. Now she is being blackmailed...

By Sandrine Destombes

£19.50

The body of a young girl is found in a mysterious cave near Marseille.

By Jean Contrucci

£10.95

Non-book gifts

The lovable Eeyore 20cm soft toy makes the perfect first companion for baby

£10.83

The official Gaston la licorne soft toy!

£15.50

A book-game including an investigation of 150 enigmas

By Collectif

£14.50

A game-book containing 12 mysteries for readers to solve.

By Paul Martin

£12.95

To carry your books everywhere

£3.33

Colour in Picasso's pictures, take a photo and see the painting come alive - take a selfie and you become part of the animation.

By Claire Fay>

£9.95

A colouring and activity book for fans of the Frozen films.

By Walt Disney

£5.10

Tilou soft toy and album!

By Daniel Picouly, Frédéric Pillot

£17.75

Redeem vouchers of different values online, or in person at the European Bookshop and The Italian Bookshop.

£20.00

A set of dice to pratise the verb forms of être.

£6.66

A card game with an illustrated playing board

£18.95

A fun, educational game which combines the telling of five traditional fairy tales with learning basic vocabulary and grammar

£15.95

A pack of dice to pratise questions in French.

£6.66

£10.83

Our favourite non-fiction

A 27-month expedition by sea and on foot through the Arctic

By Mike Horn

£20.50

The story of 2 walkers through China

By Philippe Devouassoux, Julie Klein

£14.95

A journey through Russia meeting its inhabitants and drinking vodka with them

By Nicolas Legendre

£8.55

Brexit - what does it mean and what's at stake for the United Kingdom?

By Sylvie Bermann

£21.95

Michel Barnier's secret Brexit diary from 2016 to 2020

By Michel Barnier

£20.75

Really, do you like politics?

By Philippe Alexandre

£24.95

The life of a wandering monk always looking for inner freedom and the well-being of others

By Matthieu Ricard

£29.50

How can women regain their own perspective and voice in a patriarchal society?

By Mona Chollet

£18.50

The scientific evidence for God's existence

By Michel-Yves Bolloré

£24.50

Historians, sociologists, and writers analysis and observations about Emmanuel Macron's politics

By Eric Fottorino

£9.25

a biography of the silent film star

By Pierre Pernez

£20.50

A French cinema critic gives a portrayal of contemporary French cinema

By Eric Neuhoff

£16.50

An anthology of jazz musicians

By Jacques Réda

£22.50

Chinese equivalents of European Thoughts

By François Jullien

£11.50

Comics and Bandes dessinées

Roald Dahl's classic story "The Witches" in comic-book format.

By Roald Dahl

£24.50

Quirky ladies explore an old nuclear power plant.

By Anthony Pastor

£19.75

A famous detective taken prisoner during the war is asked by a dying inmate to deliver a message to a woman in Paris...

By Léo Malet, Jacques Tardi

£19.75

Dr Freud explores the crimes and political intrigues of Metropolis.

By Serge Lehman

£15.50

In the 60s, an accident takes a young man on a strange adventure.

By Smolderen

£18.95

The Nightmare Squad is ready to get inside Leonardo's head if that's what it takes to help Alice - even if it means facing his past and his worst nightmares...

By Franck Thilliez

£13.50

A group of quirky shepherdesses protect their flock at all costs.

By Jonathan Garnier, Amélie Fléchais

£14.95

Hercule Poirot leads an investigation in the English channel.

By Agatha Christie

£15.50

A new adventure for Blake and Mortimer, this time in Hong Kong.

By Yves Sente

£15.50

Asterix is on a quest to find the terrifying Griffon.

By René Goscinny

£17.95

Our favourite fiction

The number one international bestseller

By Valérie Perrin

£10.95

One of the greatest science fiction novels ever written

By Frank Herbert

£11.75

When ghosts from the past reappear, the best way to neutralise their effect is to turn them into fictional characters...

By Patrick Modiano

£15.95

In a psychiatric hospital, Monroe who a patient who died a few years ago sends warriors from beyond - ghosts that only Breton can see with special glasses...

By Antoine Volodine

£18.95

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

By Gaël Faye

£9.15

"A timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island"

By Philippe Claudel

£10.95

A 26 year-old woman with early Alzheimer's decides to go travelling

By Mélissa Da Costa

£12.75

Soumission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society

By Michel Houellebecq

£13.75

A stunningly ambitious and entertaining novel that gives us a counter-factual history of the modern world

By Laurent Binet

£10.95

A monologue depicting a nowadays woman unsuited to the present, who escapes into her own world of writing

By Fatima Daas

£15.50

When a woman is saved from drowning in the Seine in Paris, it turns out she is a famous pianist who died a few years ago...

By Guillaume Musso

£23.50

Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend? A fall from grace? The mirror who reflects us all?

By Virginie Despentes

£11.95

A coming-of-age novel like no other: an atmospheric and highly aesthetic portrayal of love, art and craftsmanship

By Maylis de Kerangal

£15.50

How do you take revenge on your own past?

By Édouard Louis

£19.50

A genealogical road-trip

By Alexis Michalik

£13.50

Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm and by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner, Mathilde grows increasingly restless

By Leïla Slimani

£11.95

A journey through time to find the secret of human's destiny, known only to the bees...

By Bernard Werber

£15.50

In 1937, an upper middle class family gathers at their country house Home Place

By Elizabeth Jane Howard

£11.95

The miraculous life of the queen-pharaoh Hatchepsut

By Christian Jacq

£22.50

A universal story about moments that change life, intense emotions and unforgettable meetings that change a destiny

By Virginie Grimaldi

£12.50

Beaux-Livres

Photographs of prisoners, victims, policemen and judges in a police station

By Raymond Depardon

£15.95

A vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia

By Lev Tolstoy

£71.00

4 novels illustrated with etchings and plates in original colours.

By Jules Verne

£39.95

Portraits of Interiors is a book about the oasis of home

By Axel Vervoordt

£15.50

Napoleon psychological portrait illustrated by Dali, Picasso or Eaton

By Dimitri Casali

£23.95

Fifty drawings about Parisian life: their lives, pets and arts...

By Joann Sfar

£26.75

A study of the journey of 50 women startin in the Middle Ages that shows their growing autonomy and creative recognition

By Laure Adler

£28.75

The catalogue of the Hergé exhibition in Paris that ran from September 2016 to January 2017

By Michel Serres, Cécile Maisonneuve, Jérôme Neutres

£33.75

Egypt in drawings, photographs and watercolours

By Marie-Laure Prévost, Sylvie Aubenas, Elisabeth Delange, Bruno Racine

£30.95

Maria, is a successful model in Paris, supported by Theophile Gauthier. What do we know about her?

By Marie Ndiaye

£9.95

Readers for the winter

A police inspector is gravely wounded returning from a visit to a young lady.

£12.95

An apparently motiveless attempt to murder a tramp requires investigation by Maigret, the psychologist of crime...

£12.95

At the Opera House, everyone is talking about the mysterious Phantom but despite some terrible events, the show must go on...

£5.50

Who is Mr Hyde, the man who sneaks into the house of Dr Jekyll? What secrets are the pair keeping?

£8.75

Can Arsène Lupin overcome the challenges and puzzles set for him by his enemies?

£8.10

A series of strange video messages lead Rachel on a hunt across Paris in search of the sender.

£8.10

An Argentinian painter disappears - is he in danger?

£8.10

An investigation starts with a message hidden in a jacket...

£6.75

During a trip to the opera, mysterious disappearances occur...

£6.95

Tonton Jean is searching for a life-saving medecine in the forest in Rwanda.

£8.00

Jules and Camille's relaxing holiday is disrupted when their friend disappears...

£8.95

When an Egyptian souvenir goes missing, Sophie tries to get it back...

£8.95

A student searches for English tourists who have disappeared...

£9.50

Strange things happen during the rehearsals of a school production...

£9.50

Jérémie and the mysterious Océane investigate an accident at the football stadium...

£9.50

A banned party in the Catacombs of Paris takes an unexpected turn...

£9.95

In a strange turn of events, a student's crime story unfolds in real life...

£8.25

A boy has one million Euros. A girl hopes evrything will go as planned. A man waits in a hotel with a gun. How are they connected?

£8.25

The story of a very peculiar tie that once belonged to Georges Simenon.

£8.40

A corpse is found in the Seine - naked except for ... a pair of socks!

£20.75

Inspector Oscar Tenon investigates the murder of a football fan in Paris.

£8.40

Lieutenant Oscar Tenon is called upon to reconstruct the scene of crime when an film actress is murdered during filming.

£8.40

Iris misses her meeting with François, instead she starts to explain her life in the shadows by email...

£8.40

Alex investigates a crime at the Cannes film festival.

£7.95

An acrobat risks his life for money. Alex is a witness when he suffers a fatal accident. But is it really an accident?

£7.95

Alex investigates a crime in the art world.

£7.95

Alex looks into the suspicious activities of a renowned tennis player.

£10.95

Alex is forced to participate in very suspicious reality TV show.

£18.50

A student reporting on a famous actress at the Cannes Film Festival becomes involved in a mystery.

£10.50

An archeologist is the chief suspect when an 18th century treasure chest is stolen.

£11.50

French Language and Literature

Christmas books for little ones

Our Booksellers' Recommendations

Courses and Language Learning

Courses

Language skills & practice

Dictionaries

Supplementary resources

Literature

Fiction

Non-fiction

Other

For Young Adults

Literature

Readers

Reference