Freedom Fries and Cafe Creme (26 page)

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Freedom Fries and Café
Crème demonstrated at www.gallicbooks.com

Muriel Barbery

France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed, he is tormented by an inability to recall the most delicious food to ever pass his lips, which he ate long before becoming a critic. Desperate to taste it one more time, he looks back over the years to see if he can pin down the elusive dish.

Revealing far more than his love of great food, the narration by this larger-than-life individual alternates with the voices of those closest to him and their own experiences of the man.

Muriel Barbery's gifts as an evocative storyteller are put to mouth-watering use in this voluptuous and poignant meditation on food and its deeper significance in our lives.

A delectable treat to savour.

ISBN 978-1-906040-31-4
£6.99

Guillaume Musso

Over 1 million copies sold worldwide

Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere… Parisian cop Martin Beaumont has never really got over his first love, Gabrielle. Their brief, intense affair in San Francisco and the pain of her rejection still haunt him years later.

Now, however, he's a successful detective – and tonight he's going to arrest the legendary art thief, Archibald Maclean, when he raids the Musée d'Orsay for a priceless Van Gogh. But the enigmatic Archibald has other plans. Martin's pursuit of the master criminal across Paris is the first step in an adventure that will take him back to San Francisco, and to the edge of love and life itself.

ISBN: 9781906040345
£7.99

Guillaume Musso

Just a few months ago, Tom Boyd was a multi-million-selling author living in LA, in love with a world-famous pianist. But after a very public break-up he's shut himself away, suffering from total writer's block, with only drink and drugs for company. One night, a beautiful, naked stranger appears in Tom's house. She claims to be Billie, a character from his novels, who has fallen into the real world because of a printer's error in his latest book.

Crazy as her story sounds; Tom comes to see that this must be the real Billie. And she wants to strike a deal with him: if he writes his next novel she can go back to the world of fiction; in return she will help him win back his beloved Aurore.

What does he have to lose?

Guillaume Musso's latest romantic adventure is a story of friendship, love and the special place that books have in our lives.

ISBN: 978-1-906040888
£7.99

Originally from France, Jocelyne Rapinac is a modern languages teacher who has lived in the US, Switzerland and the UK with her husband James.
Freedom Fries and Café Crème
is her first novel.