An ideal book for anyone looking for an introduction to feminism! Edited by Chloé Delaume, several feminist personalities take up the pen to give us their definition of sisterhood and what it means to them. An essential read!

Held in suspense from start to finish, we travel through the present and past lives of the main character, who risks his life to save his loved ones. An addictive first novel!

Diaty Diallo is a poet and performer in addition to being a critically acclaimed novelist and her expansive creative vision is apparent in this stunning sophomore novel. This is really a story about the way self-determination and love and kindness can flourish despite outside circumstances.

French fanfiction about Lana Del Rey is a surprising pitch but you don’t need to be a fan to enjoy this. The singers are almost ciphers here for a story about artistry, womanhood, love and Americana.

This intricate literary novel is set between Senegal, France, and Poland. While it engages with a lot of philosophical questions and explores Serer mysticism, it's a succinct book that is simply and evocatively written. The main plot, a love story that takes a tragic turn, feels like the driving mechanism of the book, and it never feels overly dense.

If, like me, you read the news these days with growing anxiety, then "Une vie qui se cabre", Sylvain Pattieu’s latest novel, might offer you a welcome breath of fresh air. In this fast paced, political "feel-good" fiction, Pattieu imagines that in the immediate aftermath of WW2, the Lamine Gueye law, granting equality to every citizen of the French Empire,…

This incredibly buzzy debut is something like if an acclaimed art historian had written "All the Light We Cannot See". It feels passionate and engaging and really captures the freshness and wonder of understanding art, the world, growing up, through the eyes of a child.

He goes by Ricardo, Alexandre, Daniel, Richard. His surname, profession, nationality change faster than a New York minute. Why? To seduce as many women as he can. He's on the rampage in Brazil, France, Portugal, Poland and he multiplies profiles on social media literally everywhere. Ricardo is a man with a thousand faces, addicted to face holes and all sorts…

Les Fleurs sauvages (POL, 2024) is as much a novel about the birth of an artist, as it is about the dynamics within a family’s, as it is about our connection to nature. Houdart treats each aspect of her fiction with the same importance, she explores each narrative line with the same degree of engagement, the same precision in her…