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June 2010
 
Win a weekend of luxury and entertainment for two in London with Apostrophe and Gallic Books


Details here
11 June 2010
Lelord heads to London
François Lelord – bestselling author of 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' – will be in the UK this week for two exclusive instore bookshop events.
 
Monsieur Lelord will be at Gallic Books partner The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green on Wednesday, June 2 at 7pm. The following evening, at Heffers in Cambridge, he will talk and sign copies of 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' as part of a special 'Translated in Fiction' evening.
  
Francois Lelord Appearances
 
Wednesday, June 2
7pm
The Big Green Bookshop, London
 
Thursday, June 3
6.30pm
Heffers, Cambridge

2nd June 2010
 
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May 2010
 
Congratulations to Foyles
On winning the  Martina Cole General or Chain Bookselling Company of the Year award. The award winners were announced last night (May 17th) during a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
18th July 2010
 
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April 2010
 
Lifetime Achievement Award for Antoine Gallimard
Gallic Books would like to congratulate Antoine Gallimard on his Lifetime Achievement Award which was presented at LIBF.
22nd April 2010
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC prize
The shortlist for the world's richest literary prize was unveiled today. The books were selected from a longlist of 156 novels nominated by 163 public libraries in 123 cities around the world.

Countries which took part in the poll include Ireland, Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Russia, The Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, the US and Canada.

The shortlisted titles are:

The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker.

The Elegance Of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric.

Settlement by Christoph Hein.

The Believers by Zoe Heller.

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill.

God's Own Country by Ross Raisin.

Home by Marilynne Robinson.

The winner will be announced on 17 June in Dublin.

'EVERY SHORTLIST NEEDS its novel of ideas and French philosopher Muriel Barbery has certainly provided exactly that with her charmingly eccentric meditation, The Elegance of the Hedgehog , which celebrates the allure of information, fact and fancy.' Irish Times

12 April 2010
Sunday reading from Caroline Smailes
Full details here
12 April 2010
François Lelord to visit London
François Lelord will be arriving in London on Monday 12th April. You'll be able to catch him signing stock at Hatchards, Piccadilly at 11am on Wednesday 14th and around Foyles on the same morning. Further Hector news to follow.
9 April 2010
To celebrate publication of Hector and the Search for Happiness, Gallic Books has teamed up with Champneys Town and City Spas and will be giving away prizes of Happiness spa treatments and products throughout April, May and June. visit www.hectorsjourneys.com
6th April 2010
Add a track to Hectors Happiness playlist ...
Is there a song that makes YOU happy? Go to our HECTOR tab on our page and add your track suggestions to the wall. We'll add 'em to our Happiness playlist on Spotify for ya'll to enjoy!
6th April 2010
 
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March 2010
 
Muriel Barbery to attend The 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival.
The Franschhoek Literary Festival : Fourth Edition will hit the streets of this Winelands village starting on Friday 14 May, with another gathering of writers, editors, publishers, readers and assorted book fans who will be deep in various conversations until sunset on Sunday 16 May.

The FLF is a celebration of books and writers with the focus on promoting South African writing and reading, run largely by volunteers and well supported by the Franschhoek community.

http://www.flf.co.za/

30th March 2010
Gallic Books short listed for IPG Trade Publisher of the Year
The winner will be announced on Saturday 20th March. Click here for full short list.
9 March 2010
 
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February 2010
 
Anna Sam at Bath LitFest 2010

Sunday 7th March, 2.45pm to 3.45pm at the Guildhall, Bath.

Anna Sam will be in discussion with journalist Agnès Poirier about the French attitude to food, work and life as part of the Bath LitFest 2010.

25th February 2010
 
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January 2010
 
100,000 Hedgehog Copies sold!
We are thrilled to announce that over 100,000 copies of The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery have now been sold. 'This breathtakingly singular novel...is totally French yet completely universal' - Good Housekeeping
27th January 2010
WHSmith Paris and Gallic books cordially invite you to our author event
Join us for a conversation about Napoleon with Peter Hicks, historian at Fondation Napoléon, & Steven Englund, author of Napoleon: A Political Life.

Thursday 21st January 7:00 p.m.

Completed when Napoleon was only 26, the tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie reveals one of history's great leaders to be also an accomplished writer of fiction and offers a fascinating insight into the young man's view of love, women and military life.

Peter Hicks and Émilie Barthet have created the definitive version of Clisson and Eugénie from original fragments of manuscript. This edition includes their notes and commentary on Napoleon the writer, and an introduction by Napoleonic specialist, Armand Cabasson, on the man behind the legend.

to books@whsmith.fr WH Smith Paris - 248 rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M° Concorde - 01 44 77 88 99

6th January 2010
 
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December 2009
 
Gallic Founder honoured
From Bookbrunch 14/12/2009

Jane Aitken, founder of Gallic Books, has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, for her work in promoting French literature in the UK. She received the honour at the French Embassy last week. The medal was presented by His Excellency M Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, the French Ambassador, who praised Aitken for introducing French authors to an English audience and made special mention of the part she played in the international success of Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which was dramatised on Radio 4 earlier this year.

In accepting the medal, Aitken paid tribute to British booksellers for their support of Gallic Books authors. "They have all, large and small, been very welcoming to our French writers and we at Gallic are very grateful to them."

Gallic Books was founded in 2007 by Aitken and Pilar Webb, and is dedicated to publishing the best of French literature in English. Other successes include The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé and Checkout: A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam.

14th December 2009
 
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November 2009
 
Clisson and Eugenie: "A scholarly reconstruction of the various fragments and drafts of the original text . . ."

Telegraph Review of Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte:

What we have in Clisson and Eug?nie is a scholarly reconstruction of the various fragments and drafts of the original text, whose manuscript leaves have been scattered everywhere from Paris and New York to Moscow, Santa Barbara and Milan. As translator and editor of this new English edition, claimed by its publishers as definitive, Peter Hicks and Emilie Barthet have cleverly collated the different false starts and reworkings to create a readable version.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6501960/Clisson-and-Eugenie-A-Love-Story-by-Napoleon-Bonaparte-review.html

11 November 2009
We love The Big Green Bookshop
Today we are very excited to be launching out new partnership with the wonderful Big Green Bookshop, on Brampton Park Road in Wood Green, London.

Big Green Bookshop is a fabulous independent bookshop, which opened in March 2008 and has always been very supportive of Gallic Books. Our new partnership is an extension of our current collaboration, based on Simon Key's contention that publishers should publish books and booksellers should sell them. We agree!

So get yourselves over to the Big Green Bookshop to see their window of our books and their dedicated Gallic bookcase. If you cannot get to the bookshop browse their website where all our books can be bought online. You can also contine to place your order through our website, and the orders will be fulfilled by the Big Green Bookshop.

Also, to promote this initiative, we'll be running a competition with a chance to win 2 tickets on Eurostar to Paris. More details will follow soon.

We are delighted to be working in close partnership with a lively independent bookshop and we will be planning author events with them shortly.

3rd November 2009
 
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October 2009
 
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

Checkout : A Life on the Tills is reviewed in The London Review of Books (22nd October 2009) by Rachel Bowlby author of 'Carried Away'.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n20/bowl02_.html

20th October 2009
SHAKESPEARE & CO, PARIS
Monday 19th October 7:00pm

Korb and Liliane Lefevre will be reading from their fourth Victor Legris mystery, The Marais Assassin.

Izner is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both booksellers on the banks of the Seine, they are experts on nineteenth-century Paris. They have co-written Murder on the Eiffel Tower, The Pere-Lachaise Mystery and The Montmartre Investigation as well their latest mystery The Marais Assassin.

The Marais Assassin: Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner's apartment is burgled. Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people have been murdered who were connected to to the goblet, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. How quickly can he recover it and end the killing spree, in a city beset with terrorist activity? In this fourth case for the bookseller sleuth, Claude Izner offers a convincing portrait of a Paris shaken by anarchist bombings in the spring of 1892.

www.shakespeareandcompany.com

19th October 2009
 
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August 2009
 
HEDGEHOG SALES
Paperback sales of The Elegance of the Hedgehog are just about to hit 40,000 copies!
10th August 2009
CLISSON AND EUGENIE
Exciting news... Audible.com 'active listeners who enjoy stories well told' are soon to publish Clisson and Eugenie as an audio book.
10th August 2009
 
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July 2009
 
ANNA SAM IN LONDON

Anna Sam is in London and will have a very busy couple of days. Following on from The Independent piece yesterday, The London Paper will run and interview with Anna this evening. She was interviewed yesterday evening on Radio 2, Chris Evans' show.

This morning she was interviewed live for Radio 4fm with Gareth O'Callaghan. At lunch time today Anna was interviewed by George Alagiah for BBC World TV and will be on BBC 4'S Midweek tomorrow morning from 9am. Again, both live.

The hard work continues on Wednesday with an live interview with Fred MacAulay for BBC Radio Scotland from 10.20 to 10.35 and at noon an interview with BBC Radio Bristol. Phew! Anna Sam signing stock in the Gallic office 1 Anna signing stock in the Gallic office.

Anna  police man  London Paper and Big Ben Anna, a police man, Big Ben and The London Paper

We have a limited number of signed copies available if you order direct from us.

14th July 2009
CHECKOUT: A LIFE ON THE TILLS IN THE INDEPENDENT
Look at this lovely piece in The Independent today
13th July 2009
 
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June 2009
 
WE ARE NOW PART OF THE BOOKHUGGER FAMILY
Have a look at Bookhugger: Your number one destination for news, articles, views and competitions from a range of the UK's leading quality fiction and non-fiction publishers... including Gallic Books.
1st June 2009
 
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April 2009
 
OUR STOCK IS ON ITS WAY TO LITTLEHAMPTON!
Please start placing orders with Littlehampton Book Services from today (details below). Dues will be recorded until next Wednesday when our lovely titles will start rolling out.
29th April 2009
WE ARE CHANGING DISTRIBUTOR
From 1st May 2009 our distributor will be Littlehampton Book Services

Customer ServicesTel: 01903 828501
Direct OrdersTel: 01903 828511
Fax: 01903 828801/02
Email: orders@lbsltd.co.uk
8th April 2009
WE ARE DELIGHTED TO BE PUBLISHING ANNA SAM
Coming in September is our first non-fiction title: Checkout - A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam, a wry look at working life in a French hypermarket. Already a Europe-wide publishing sensation, the book has had substantial coverage in the British media.
6th April 2009


 
 
 
 
 
 
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