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Masterly' John Banville 'Action-packed and full of gallows humour' Sunday Telegraph Booker-winner John Banville has long heralded Pascal Garnier as 'the true heir to Simenon'. Now, with a dozen of Garnier's noirs available in English, Banville introduces a new edition of one of Garnier's masterworks as part of a collection of contemporary and classic jewels of French literature, the Editions Gallic series.How's the Pain? sees ageing 'pest exte...

Bored by his aimless life, sixty-year-old Marc decides to take his cat and his grown-up daughter, Anne, on an impromptu road trip. Despite its promising start, the journey soon takes a turn for the bizarre, and easy-going Marc comes to realise he doesn't really know his daughter at all.Shocking, hilarious and poignant, this final book from Pascal Garnier, published shortly before his death, is the author on top form. The book features an Intro...

Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels feature a recurring set of themes, characters and settings, and reading them side by side in these collected volumes allows the author's profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully appreciated.

Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels feature a recurring set of themes, characters and settings, and reading them side by side in these collected volumes allows the author's profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully appreciated.

¿Garnier's crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative' - Publishers Weekly Volume 1 includes How's the Pain?, the tale of an ageing ¿pest exterminator' taking on one last job on the French Riviera, The Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals ... but is he as angelic as he seems?, and The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity clos...

Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales, but Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France, so that was that. But just as they start to find their feet in the new community, strange things start to happen... 'Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit' "Observer

Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and finds a driver in the shape of Bernard. As the unlikely pair set off on an adventure that veers from the hilarious to the horrific, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected...

Heads will roll as two friends with a shocking secret are reunited in Versailles.

A widow's quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Like his "Moon In A Dead Eye", this pokes fun at 'dream' retirements and the appearance of calm domesticity. 'Think Simenon and Patricia Highsmith mixed, with jokes added to the black brew' John Banville

An offbeat tale of a crime writer and the murderous protagonist of his novel, for fans of Herman Koch, Patricia Highsmith and Jim Thompson. A crime writer rents a house on the Normandy coast to write a novel, but events in his own life start to overlap with the work of his imagination.