But he never forgot the magic of his Provencal childhood, and when he set his memories to paper late in life the result was a great new success. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle appeared on the scene like a fresh breeze, captivating readers with its sweet enchantments. Pagnol recalls his days hunting and fishing in the hill country, his jaunts about Marseilles, his schoolboy diversions, and above all his family: his anticlerical father and sanctimonious uncle, his mild and beautiful mother, and many others. This bright and lively book sparkles with the charm and magic that were Marcel Pagnol's own.

    But why was this such an important if not disastrous thing to ask? It was because she and her mother were Jewish, living under assumed names and with forged papers, and therefore if anyone had overheard her hesitation about her real name they would have been immediately suspicious.Sylvie’s father, André Amar, was arrested in July 1944 and for the next five weeks, until, miraculously, he came home, his wife Jacqueline (who wrote under the name Mesnil-Amar) kept a diary about her everyday life in Paris, as well as looking back at their life before the war and being in hiding over the previous four years. This is a moving and extraordinarily immediate description of life in France during the Occupation and of life in Paris during the Germans’ departure. The book has been translated from the French by  Francine Yorke. It was originally published in 1957 as 'Ceux qui ne dormaient pas' but the title did not translate well and Persephone Publishing gave it the English title: 'Maman, What Are We Called Now?'

    When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetery, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

    A lavish and sumptuous work, it combines vivid narrative with valuable and unique uniform illustrations, including 74 full color plates, to make one of the most magnificent books on military history ever published.

    CoppardPalace of Sleep by Anna KavanThe Woman At Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel SteeleA Journey by Edith WhartonThe Proof by John MooreThe Turn of the Tide by C.S. Forester

    A memoir of Colette's last thirty years written by her husband.

    

    An opera of the same name by Howard Shore premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 2008.The short story 'The Fly' is included in Langelaan's short story collection: 'Out of Time' (1964).