Howard Curtis

Solea

The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight celebrity. Europa is P

The Officers' Ward

It is autumn 1914, the first days of the Great War. At a hospital on the outskirts of Paris in a room without mirrors, a young lieutenant lies scarred, his face forever disfigured by a German shell. But he is not alone. Between bouts of surgery, he discov

Submission

You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Submission, the controversial novel that, accordi

Total Chaos

Book One in the Marseilles TrilogyUgo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the mean streets of Marseilles, where friendship means everything. They promised to stay true to one another and swore that nothing would break their bond. But people and circumsta

Chourmo

"A talented French writer who draws from the deep dark well of noir."-The Washington Post Chourmo . . . the rowers in a galley. In Marseilles, you weren't just from one neighborhood, one project. You were chourmo. In the same galley, rowing! Trying to get

The Way of the Kings

One of Malraux's most exotic novels, The Way of Kings is a perfect companion to Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness.Claude and Perken meet on a liner heading for Indo-China, and throw in their lots together to form a dual expedition into the perilous Ca

Guys Like Me

"Fabre’s unexpectedly touching novel has a laugh of its own behind its low-key, smoothly translated narrative voice ... The city it evokes isn’t the Paris of tourists but of local people."—The New York Times"Fabre is a genius of these nuanced, inter

The Past is a Foreign Country

Giorgio, a 22-year-old trainee lawyer, becomes the pupil of Francesco, who exerts a strange fascination over men & women alike, & he teaches Giorgio how to cheat at cards. Their gambling exploits take them from luxurious villas to low dives, their

Zulu

As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family that survived the carnage of those years and the p

Tierra del Fuego

These nine stories of adventure, exploration and voyage are peopled with ravenous explorers, fortune hunters, foreign revolutionaries, ill-fated seafarers, intrepid ship's captains, and ruthless smugglers.