Books published by Gallic Books

The final translation of the late, great Garnier; one last chance to be entranced by the surreal, bleak landscape of his bizarrely brilliant world.

A writer finds fame and misfortune after winning a big literary prize and embarking on a roadtrip with his son.

After drinking a bottle of vintage Beaujolais, a group of Parisian neighbours are transported back in time to 1954.

Kidman's powerful novel explores the controversial topic of the death penalty with characteristic empathy and a probing eye for injustice. Winner of The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019, the New Zealand Booklovers' Prize for Fiction 2019, and the New Zealand Heritage Book Awards 2018.

A quick, cruel, coming-of-age tale in the vein of recent remarkable literature on dangerous girlhoods and disjointed families.

From the author of A Very Long Engagement comes a tangled, terrifying psychological thriller worthy of Georges Simenon, Paula Hawkins or Patricia Highsmith.

An extended family gathers on one rainy weekend to pack up their summer house - and dig up long-buried memories.

An innovative family drama exploring the nature of trust, death, and the things we do in the name of love.

From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul.

In Antoine Laurain's witty black comedy his anti-hero, Fabrice, can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime.

The dark legacy of the past echoes through the generations in this moving family saga beginning in 1950s New Zealand.

Pascal Garnier's `deliciously dark and painfully funny' noirs, now collected in three volumes.

Life in a remote Venezuelan village is transformed by successive travellers seeking Henry Morgan's legendary buried treasure.

A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him.

A new colleague and a mysterious admirer make life infinitely more interesting for House of Commons secretary Grace, but is everything really as it seems?

Hester Finch's comfortable existence in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet she finds her thoughts drawn to that beautiful, inhospitable outcrop of South Australia and the connections she and her siblings forged there - with devastating consequences.

A permanently frozen London is the setting for Roma Tearne's harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival in a dystopian near-future.

What if death was not the end? A thrilling story of love, loss, revenge and redemption in Naples and beyond.

A pair of disturbing novellas from the master of 'the literary uncanny'

The arrival of a letter delayed by 33 years sparks off a quest that leads both on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and right to the heart of France today. Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter - thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a recording contract to The Holograms, in which Alain played lead guitar. Overcome by nostalgia, Alain is tempted to track down the members of the group. But in a world where everything and everyone has changed...where could his quest possibly take him?

When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con must step in as the keeper of Sekhmet, the last remaining black-maned lioness in the world.

The lives of a group of young women converge in 1960s New Zealand in a moving time- and continent-spanning saga.

Award-winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two world wars, in this dramatic story of one man's rise from abject poverty to a life of wealth and adulation. Even as a child living hand-to-mouth in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. So when his family find a decent home in the city of Oran anything seems possible. But colonial Algeria is no place to be ambitious for those of Arab-Berber ethnicity. Through a succession of menial jobs, the constants for Turambo are his rage at the injustice surrounding him, and a reliable left hook. This last opens the door to a boxing apprenticeship, which will ultimately offer Turambo a choice: to take his chance at sporting greatness or choose a simpler life beside the woman he loves.

The rise and fall of the 'Garbo of the skies', as told by one of New Zealand's finest novelists. Jean Batten became an international icon in 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn't get enough of her. In 1934, she broke Amy Johnson's flight time between England and Australia by six days. The following year, she was the first woman to make the return flight. In 1936, she made the first ever direct flight between England and New Zealand and then the fastest ever trans-Tasman flight. Jean Batten stood for adventure, daring, exploration and glamour. The Second World War ended Jean's flying adventures. She suddenly slipped out of view, disappearing to the Caribbean with her mother and eventually dying in Majorca, buried in a pauper's grave. Fiona Kidman's enthralling novel delves into the life of this enigmatic woman. It is a fascinating exploration of early aviation, of fame, and of secrecy.