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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithGeorges Simenon's brilliant pipe-smoking detective, Jules Maigret, is one of the most beloved literary creation ...Show more
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon; David Bellos (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianIn Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is tak ...Show more
The Hatter's Ghosts by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret seriesNot only had the rain in the dark streets, with a halo around each light and reflections on the ground, always given him a certain thrill, it also made it easier for him to move around.It has ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign. Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived t ...Show more
The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'Jonas is used to his young wife disappearin ...Show more
The Man from London by Georges Simenon
$25.75 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is drawn to the scene of a brutal murder and his once quiet life changes forever ...Show more
The People Opposite by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey - alone in an alien land - has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only ...Show more
The Pitards by Georges Simenon
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage, Lanne ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion ...Show more
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.'During a chance meeting on the train from Venice t ...Show more
The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret #5 by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is the fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quiverin ...Show more
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city - its bars, its cheap motels, and its rented rooms - becomes the cinematic setting of the couple's escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glo ...Show more