SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME Alex Prévost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage - is in no position to bargain. Her abductor's only desire is to watch her die. HE WANTS ONLY ONE THING Apart from a shaky police report, Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads. If he is to find Alex, he will have to get inside her head. ESCAPE IS JUST THE BEGINNING Resourceful, tough, beautiful, always two steps ahead - Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing till the bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
Frank Wynne Books
Frank Wynne is a distinguished literary translator, breathing life into French literature for English-speaking audiences. He excels at conveying complex themes and the subtle nuances of French authors, including their distinct stylistic approaches. His translation work highlights a deep understanding of both the source material and the target language. Wynne is recognized for his ability to capture the spirit and meaning of original works, offering readers an authentic literary experience. His translations are lauded for their precision and literary merit.






Watching Over Her
- 532 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt 2023, with over 700,000 copies sold in France
Platform
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie att
Atomised
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves
Queer
- 624 pages
- 22 hours of reading
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.
An Unfinished Business
- 239 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A major novel that tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture - the Shoah. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Three Days and a Life
- 201 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Three days at the edge of the new millennium, one moment of madness and one young life's course altered forever. A dazzling new thriller from the master of noir. Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing without trace of a young child. The adults of the town are at a loss to explain the disappearance, but for Antoine, it all begins with the violent death of his neighbour's dog. From that one brutal act, his fate and the fate of his neighbour's six year old son are bound forever. In the years following Rémi's disappearance, Antoine wrestles with the role his actions played. As a seemingly inescapable net begins to tighten, breaking free from the suffocating environs of Beauval becomes a gnawing obsession. But how far does he have to run, and how long will it take before his past catches up with him again? Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Windows on the World
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11. 'The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.' Weaving fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, Windows on the World dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension. Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.
To ja byłem Vermeerem
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Historia życia i pracy genialnego fałszerza Hana van Meegerena.W 1945 roku niewiele znaczący holenderski handlarz dzieł sztuki został aresztowany za sprzedaż bezcennego skarbu narodowego ? obrazu pędzla Vermeera ? marszałkowi III Rzeszy Hermannowi G�ringowi. Jedyną możliwą karą za zdradę była śmierć. Jednak Han van Meegeren gnił w zimnej i wilgotnej celi więziennej, nie mogąc wydobyć z siebie dw�ch prostych sł�w, kt�re dałyby mu wolność: jestem fałszerzem.To ja byłem Vermeerem jest zdumiewającą, niezwykłą opowieścią o człowieku, kt�ry minął się z czasem i powołaniem. Od wczesnego dzieciństwa marzył, żeby zostać malarzem, ale w skandalizującym świecie sztuki wsp�łczesnej jego malarstwo krytycy wyśmiali jako beznadziejnie staroświeckie. Wściekły i rozgoryczony uknuł plan zemsty na swych przeciwnikach. Było to oszałamiające, zręczne oszustwo, dzięki kt�remu w niespełna dziesięć lat zarobił r�wnowartość pięćdziesięciu milion�w dolar�w; zyskał akceptację właśnie tych krytyk�w, kt�rzy wcześniej z niego szydzili i... zobaczył swoje obrazy wiszące tuż obok arcydzieł Rembrandta i Vermeera. Jako malarz Han poni�sł klęskę, jako fałszerz był niedościgniony. To ja byłem Vermeerem jest niewiarygodną, a jednak prawdziwą historią największego fałszerza wszech czas�w, trzymającą w napięciu opowieścią o zachłanności, nieposkromionej pysze, braku umiaru, zdradzie i sztuce.


