Annihilation
£22.00A number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission.
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Serotonin
£9.99Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill – white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain’s release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for.
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H P Lovecraft
£13.99Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the French best-selling novelist Michel Houellebecq’s H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. In this encomium, France’s most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego’s style, which couldn’t be much less like his own. With a foreword by a Lovecraft admirer, Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is both an insightful introduction to Lovecraft’s dark mythology and Houellebecq’s deadpan prose.
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Soumission
£9.90BESTSELLER. In 2022, with the help of the French Socialist party and the Centrists, Mohammed Ben Abbes defeats the far-right National Front and becomes the first Muslim president of France. The country is in turmoil.
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La possibilite d’une ile
£9.50BESTSELLER. Prix Interallie 2005. The 21st century. A sect promising immortality to its members has supplanted traditional religion…. Houellebecq is back with possibly his best novel yet.
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La carte et le territoire
£9.90BESTSELLER. Houellebecq’s latest work is finally out in paperback. A novel which touches on many topics close to the author’s heart such as father-son relationships, death, solitude and creativity.
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