DIMANCHE AND OTHER STORIES

ALL OUR WORLDLY GOODS

This novel tells the story of two warring French families from 1911 to 1940. With its themes of war, love and money the novel brings home with great clarity how close the two conflicts were.

DAVID GOLDER

David Golder, born into poverty, clawed his way to fabulous wealth. Now an ageing businessman, his health is starting to fail him. When his wife and daughter betray him he contemplates revenge!

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

This is a haunting tale of secrets bubbling beneath the apparently tranquil surface of a peaceful rural community in France between the wars.

THE FIRES OF AUTUMN

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings. But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.

JEZEBEL

In a French courtroom, the trial of Gladys Eysenach is taking place. She is accused of shooting dead her young lover. As the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, and then the final irrevocable act.

SUITE FRANCAISE

The author, a Russian Jew had lived in France since 1918. In 1941 she decided to write a series of stories about the reaction of French people to war and occupation. She completed the first two parts before being arrested by the Nazis. This volume contains those two parts, 'Storm in June' and 'Dolce', plus an appendix of her notes and letters.

THE WINE OF SOLITUDE

The story of the troubled relationship between a young girl Helene, her self-absorbed mother, and the mother’s lover, Max. It follows the family through the period of the Great War and the Russian Revolution while Helene grows from an unhappy child into an angry young woman.