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The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated)
Paul Morand; Translated by Euan Cameron; Illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld
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The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul
Morand - in a Deluxe special edition, illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld
and authorised by Chanel Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's
memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most
influential women in fashion history. During a visit to St. Moritz
at the end of World War II, Chanel shared intimate details of her
life, loves and fashion philosophy with her life-long friend, Paul
Morand. Only coming to light after Chanel's death, her intimate
recollections reveal the secrets behind her success and the
captivating charm that made her a true icon The Allure of Chanel
attracted the attention of Karl Lagerfeld, who embellished it with
seventy-three drawings, sketched for this special illustrated
edition.
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Madeleine (Hardcover)
Euan Cameron
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"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN "Beautifully
written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE "Poignant, nostalgic and redolent
of the smell of France" SIMON BRETT Family history has always been
a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk about
it, and with no other relatives to consult, it seems that a mystery
it shall always remain. Until of course, Will meets Ghislaine, his
beautiful French cousin, in a chance encounter that introduces him
to his grandmother, Madeleine, shut away in a quiet Breton manor
with her memories and secrets. Before long, Will has been plunged
headlong into the life of Madeleine's great love, his longlost
grandfather, Henry Latymer. Reading Henry's old letters and diaries
for the first time, Will discovers an idealistic young man, full of
hopes and optimism - an optimism that will gradually be crushed as
the realities of life under the Vichy regime become glaringly
clear. But the more Will delves into Madeleine and Henry's past,
and into France's troubled history, the darker the secrets he
discovers become, and the more he has cause to wonder if sometimes,
the past should remain buried.
The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul
Morand Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare
glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential women in
fashion history. During a visit to St. Moritz at the end of World
War II, Chanel shared intimate details of her life, loves and
fashion philosophy with her life-long friend, Paul Morand. Only
coming to light after Chanel's death, her intimate recollections
reveal the secrets behind her success and the captivating charm
that made her a true icon
Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try
to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to
foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these
techniques were called "superstitious" by educated elites.
For centuries religious believers used "superstition" as a term of
abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or
to criticize their fellow-believers for practising their faith
"wrongly." From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, scholars
argued over what 'superstition' was, how to identify it, and how to
persuade people to avoid it. Learned believers in demons and
witchcraft, in their treatises and sermons, tried to make
'rational' sense of popular superstitions by blaming them on the
deceptive tricks of seductive demons.
Every major movement in Christian thought, from rival schools of
medieval theology through to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and
the Enlightenment, added new twists to the debates over
superstition. Protestants saw Catholics as superstitious, and vice
versa. Enlightened philosophers mocked traditional cults as
superstitions. Eventually, the learned lost their worry about
popular belief, and turned instead to chronicling and preserving
'superstitious' customs as folklore and ethnic heritage.
Enchanted Europe offers the first comprehensive, integrated account
of western Europe's long, complex dialogue with its own folklore
and popular beliefs. Drawing on many little-known and rarely used
texts, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise,
diversification, and decline of popular 'superstition' in the
European mind.
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the
Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin
Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the
most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the
commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer's
legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer's connection to Luther at
stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer
with the German Protestant Church under National Socialism, the
question inevitably arises: "What happened to Luther's church in
Germany?" This in turn prompts the question: "How did the
Protestant tradition play out in public life in other nations?" And
these historical issues in turn encourage reflection on a question
that exercised both Luther and Bonhoeffer: "What will be the shape
of the church in the future?" In these pages, an international
group of scholars and practitioners from both church and state
pursues these questions.
Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the
history of Christianity. Christianity is a hugely diverse and
quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless
set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if
they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that
there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which,
according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed
everywhere, at all times and by all people - is itself an act of
faith: to reconcile it with the historical fact of persistent
division and plurality requires a constant effort. It also requires
a variety of strategies, from confrontation and exclusion, through
deliberate choices as to what is forgotten or ignored, to creative
or even indulgent inclusion. In this volume, seventeen leading
historians of Christianity ask how the ideal of unity has clashed,
negotiated, reconciled or coexisted with the historical reality of
diversity, in a range of historical settings from the early Church
through the Reformation era to the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. These essays hold the huge variety of the Christian
experience together with the ideal of orthodoxy, which Christians
have never (yet) fully attained but for which they have always
striven; and they trace some of the consequences of the pursuit of
that ideal for the history of Christianity.
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The Man in a Hurry (Paperback)
Paul Morand; Translated by Euan Cameron; Introduction by Michel Deon
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A feverish classic from one of the modern masters of French prose
No one can keep up with Pierre Niox, the speediest antiques dealer
in Paris - although not necessarily the most competent. As he
dashes about at a dizzying pace, his impatience becomes too much to
bear for those around him: his manservant, his only friend and even
his cat abandon him. He begins to find that while he is racing
through life, it is passing him by. But when Pierre falls in love
with the languid, unpunctual Hedwige, the man in a hurry has to
learn how to slow down. This feverish classic by one of the modern
masters of French prose is a witty and touching parable for our
busy times.
When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her
life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought
that in his memory her performances will live for ever. But, as he
recounts the story of his existence over more than six centuries,
as she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant
events in history and how human hope and love have withered in him,
she finally understands the implications for him and for love. ALL
MEN ARE MORTAL was filmed in 1994, starring Irene Jacob, Marianne
Sagebrecht and Stephen Rea.
Six leading experts have contributed their insights into the 16th
century in this volume. The economy, politics, society, and secular
and religious thought all receive careful thematic treatment and
analysis. Many history textbook cliches emerge transformed from
their accounts."
Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try
to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to
foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these
techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For
centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of
abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or
to criticize their fellow-believers for practising their faith
'wrongly'. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, scholars
argued over what 'superstition' was, how to identify it, and how to
persuade people to avoid it. Learned believers in demons and
witchcraft, in their treatises and sermons, tried to make
'rational' sense of popular superstitions by blaming them on the
deceptive tricks of seductive demons. Every major movement in
Christian thought, from rival schools of medieval theology through
to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, added
new twists to the debates over superstition. Protestants saw
Catholics as superstitious, and vice versa. Enlightened
philosophers mocked traditional cults as superstitions. Eventually,
the learned lost their worry about popular belief, and turned
instead to chronicling and preserving 'superstitious' customs as
folklore and ethnic heritage. Enchanted Europe is the first
comprehensive, integrated account of western Europe's long, complex
dialogue with its own folklore and popular beliefs. Drawing on many
little-known and rarely used texts, Euan Cameron constructs a
compelling narrative of the rise, diversification, and decline of
popular 'superstition' in the European mind.
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by
an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers,
construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as
Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin
Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmartre. Her one attempt to
escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycee
Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit,
and begins frequenting the Cafe Conde, whose regulars call her
"Louki". She drifts into marriage with a real estate agency
director, but finds no satisfaction with him or his friends and so
makes the simple decision not to return to him one evening. She
turns instead to a young man almost as aimless and adrift as she,
but who perhaps loves her all the same. Ever-present through this
story is the city of Paris, almost another character in her own
right. This is the Paris of 'no-man's-lands', of lonely journeys on
the last metro, or nocturnal walks along empty boulevards; of cafes
where the lost youth wander in, searching for meaning, and the
older generation sift through their memories of their own long-gone
adolescence. Translated from the French by Euan Cameron
Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his
son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign
land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees
in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his
caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh
struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, and becomes
increasingly bewildered and isolated in this unfamiliar,
fast-moving town. And then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not
speak each other's language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to
the foreigner's need to care for the child. Recently widowed and
equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to
listen. The two men share their solitude, and find friendship in an
unlikely dialogue between two very different cultures. Monsieur
Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary
twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two
cultures.
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Madeleine (Paperback)
Euan Cameron
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"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN "Beautifully
written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE "Poignant, nostalgic and redolent
of the smell of France" SIMON BRETT Family history has always been
a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk about
it, and with no other relatives to consult, it seems that a mystery
it shall always remain. Until of course, Will meets Ghislaine, his
beautiful French cousin, in a chance encounter that introduces him
to his grandmother, Madeleine, shut away in a quiet Breton manor
with her memories and secrets. Before long, Will has been plunged
headlong into the life of Madeleine's great love, his longlost
grandfather, Henry Latymer. Reading Henry's old letters and diaries
for the first time, Will discovers an idealistic young man, full of
hopes and optimism - an optimism that will gradually be crushed as
the realities of life under the Vichy regime become glaringly
clear. But the more Will delves into Madeleine and Henry's past,
and into France's troubled history, the darker the secrets he
discovers become, and the more he has cause to wonder if sometimes,
the past should remain buried.
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Dog Island (Hardcover)
Philippe Claudel; Translated by Euan Cameron
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From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling
island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity "A parable
about modern migration that is also the kind of detective story
Mikhail Bulgakov might have written: visionary and darkly
humourous" Lucy Hughes-Hallet, New Statesman BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A
timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the
Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island"
The New European BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Dog Islands are a small,
isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called
because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a
dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea.
One of the only inhabited islands (the one that takes the place of
one of the dog's teeth) is dominated by a gently smoking volcano,
fringed by black volcanic beaches and under the iron rule of the
heads of community who are loath to let any outside influence
disrupt the quiet way of life on the island. Then one morning, an
old woman comes across three bodies that have washed up with the
tide: three young black men, who have apparently drowned in their
attempt to cross the sea. The initial reaction of the island
community is that this tragedy must be covered up, lest any
association with the drownings damages the island's tourism
industry . . . But the island's deliberate isolation from the
realities of the world cannot last for long, and when a visiting
detective arrives on the island and starts asking awkward
questions, it becomes clear that the deaths of these three men
indicate something far more sinister and deeply rotten lying at the
heart of this godforsaken fragment of sea-bound land. Translated
from the French by Euan Cameron EUAN CAMERON is a literary
translator from the French and a former publisher. His previous
translations include works by Patrick Modiano, Didier Decoin and
Paul Morand, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène
Némirovsky. His debut novel, Madeleine, was published in 2019.
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European
Union
Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has
offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation
of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to
Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate
Protestant and Catholic identities and movements. Catholic
Christianity at the end of the Middle Ages was not at all a
uniformly 'decadent' or corrupt institution: it showed clear signs
of cultural vigour and inventiveness. However, it was vulnerable to
a particular kind of criticism, if ever its claims to mediate the
grace of God to believers were challenged. Martin Luther proposed a
radically new insight into how God forgives human sin. In this new
theological vision, rituals did not 'purify' people; priests did
not need to be set apart from the ordinary community; the church
needed no longer to be an international body. For a critical
'Reformation moment', this idea caught fire in the spiritual,
political, and community life of much of Europe. Lay people seized
hold of the instruments of spiritual authority, and transformed
religion into something simpler, more local, more rooted in their
own community. So were born the many cultures, liturgies, musical
traditions and prayer lives of the countries of Protestant Europe.
This new edition embraces and responds to developments in
scholarship over the past twenty years. Substantially re-written
and updated, with both a thorough revision of the text and fully
updated references and bibliography, it nevertheless preserves the
distinctive features of the original, including its clearly
thought-out integration of theological ideas and political
cultures, helping to bridge the gap between theological and social
history, and the use of helpful charts and tables that made the
original so easy to use.
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter,
12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive
reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual
position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a
grown-up world - of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as
the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration
is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the
shadows of a back room... Past the bar, behind a partly drawn
curtain, a group of eastern European men gather, where under a
cirrus of smoke and over the squares of chess boards, they tell of
their lives before France - of lovers and wives, children and
ambitions, all exiled behind the Iron Curtain. Listening to this
band of survivors and raconteurs, Michel is introduced to a world
beyond the boundaries of his childhood experience, a world of men
made formidable in the face of history, ideas and politics: the
world of the Incorrigible Optimists Club.
The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and
traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and
culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and
economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and
west re-wrote the rules of finance and commerce. Politics was
dominated first by the gladiatorial struggle of two great
Renaissance monarchs, then by the bitter and bloody entanglement of
religion and politics. Society became more disciplined but also
more fragmented. Yet this was also the age when the Renaissance
became a European rather than just an Italian phenomenon, an age of
art, architecture, and literature, of unprecedented reflection on
the thinking person's role in government and civic life. It was the
era of the Reformation and Catholic reform, when the ideals and
priorities of the life of faith were examined and reshaped in the
light of new readings of Scripture. For the first time Europeans
not only learned more about the world beyond their continent; they
reached out and grasped huge new overseas empires. Six leading
scholars in their respective fields have here contributed their
insights into the challenging and tumultuous sixteenth century. The
economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought all
receive careful thematic treatment and analysis. A detailed picture
also emerges of how Europeans made and managed their overseas
empires. The volume challenges, tests, and revises the received
wisdom of past accounts in the light of the most modern
scholarship. The diverse experiences of regions of Europe often
ignored, including the East and the Mediterranean, receive
particular attention where their destinies were different from the
more better-known experiences of France and Germany. Many cliches
of textbook history, from the multiple 'revolutions' to the rise of
the nation-states, emerge transformed from this account.
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Dog Island (Paperback)
Philippe Claudel; Translated by Euan Cameron
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From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling
island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity "A parable
about modern migration that is also the kind of detective story
Mikhail Bulgakov might have written: visionary and darkly
humourous" Lucy Hughes-Hallet, New Statesman BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A
timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the
Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island"
The New European BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Dog Islands are a small,
isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called
because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a
dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea.
One of the only inhabited islands (the one that takes the place of
one of the dog's teeth) is dominated by a gently smoking volcano,
fringed by black volcanic beaches and under the iron rule of the
heads of community who are loath to let any outside influence
disrupt the quiet way of life on the island. Then one morning, an
old woman comes across three bodies that have washed up with the
tide: three young black men, who have apparently drowned in their
attempt to cross the sea. The initial reaction of the island
community is that this tragedy must be covered up, lest any
association with the drownings damages the island's tourism
industry . . . But the island's deliberate isolation from the
realities of the world cannot last for long, and when a visiting
detective arrives on the island and starts asking awkward
questions, it becomes clear that the deaths of these three men
indicate something far more sinister and deeply rotten lying at the
heart of this godforsaken fragment of sea-bound land. Translated
from the French by Euan Cameron EUAN CAMERON is a literary
translator from the French and a former publisher. His previous
translations include works by Patrick Modiano, Didier Decoin and
Paul Morand, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irene
Nemirovsky. His debut novel, Madeleine, was published in 2019. With
the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master
carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the
Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to
the imperial palace and preserve the crucial patronage that
everyone in the village depends upon? Step forward Miyuki,
Katsuro's grief-struck widow and the only remaining person in the
village who knows anything about carp. She alone can undertake the
long, perilous journey to the imperial palace, balancing the heavy
baskets of fish on a pole across her shoulders, and ensure her
village's future. So Miyuki sets off. Along her way she will
encounter a host of remarkable characters, from prostitutes and
innkeepers, to warlords and priests with evil in mind. She will
endure ambushes and disaster, for the villagers are not the only
people fixated on the fate of the eight magnificent carp. But when
she reaches the Office of Gardens and Ponds, Miyuki discovers that
the trials of her journey are far from over. For in the Office of
Gardens and Ponds, nothing is quite as it seems, and beneath its
veneer of refinement and ritual, there is an impenetrable barrier
of politics and snobbery that Miyuki must overcome if she is to
return to Shimae.
This extensively illustrated book offers a new kind of introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. It considers the evolving economy and society - the basic facts of life for the majority of Europe's people. It shows how the religious and intellectual unity of western culture fragmented and dissolved under the impact of new ideas. It also examines politics to consider the emergence of modern attitudes and techniques in governing.
Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of
seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many
people, he rarely goes out: he spends his life in a solitary world
of his own making. His peace is shattered however, one hot
September afternoon, by a threatening phone call from a complete
stranger, who claims to have found Daragane's old phone book and
wants to question him about a particular name it contains. But when
Daragane agrees to meet the mysterious Gilles Ottolini, he realises
that - try as he might - he cannot place the name "Guy Torstel" at
all. Yet Ottolini is desperate for any information on this man...
Finding himself suddenly entangled in the lives of Ottolini and his
beautiful, but fragile young associate, Daragane is drawn into the
mystery of a decades-old murder that will drag him out of his
lonely apartment and force him to confront the memory of a
long-suppressed personal trauma. Imbued with nostalgia, subtlety,
and its own unique poetry, this darkly mysterious novel weaves a
spell that provokes as much as it entrances.
From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang
of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first
kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a
decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three elusive
episodes we roam freely across the countryside of Lorraine,
North-East France, from kitchen to farm to a lover's bed.
Recognising the bittersweet nostalgia of a scent that slips away on
the summer breeze, Claudel demonstrates again his impeccable grasp
of the personal and the universal, interweaved with a rare,
self-deprecating charm. This is an evocative patchwork at once
earthy and ethereal, erotic and heart-breaking. Claudel permits us
a glimpse of moments that have driven him to delight or despair,
creating through the fading aromas of the past fragments of humour,
insight and quite intangible beauty.
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga
to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern
border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by
Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining
largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide
skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB
prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn
to this buffer between the Germanic and Slav worlds. His digressive
travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the
whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs,
and a journey in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland
was once a place of exile.
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