Graham Robb

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

by Richard Holmes

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

by Carolyn Burke

Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

by Robert Gottlieb

Afloat

by Guy de Maupassant, translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

Georges

by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Tina A. Kover, edited with an introduction and notes by Werner Sollors, and with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Lauren Yoder

The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables

by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by John King

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick, and with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris

by Richard Davenport-Hines

Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle- Class Culture, 1815–1914

by Peter Gay