Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-019813-8
If Harris's previous novel, Chocolat, was an adorably sweet morsel of French village lore, then this, her third, is a richer, more complex dessert wine. Still using her arsenal of culinary metaphors, quirky characters and slightly surreal...
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Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-019812-1
Family history meets village rivalry in Harris's poignant fourth novel, an understated passion play set on the provincial French island of Le Devin. Madeleine Prasteau leaves her Paris apartment to return to the island village of Les Salants,...
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Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-055912-0
"Love not often, but forever" is an adage with dangerous implications for Juliette, a gypsy acrobat in 17th-century France who strives to balance her wild yearnings with her hard-won wisdom in this passionate novel from the author of...
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Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $24.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-059013-0
Harris, author of the bestsellers Chocolat
and Holy Fools
, delivers 22 sharp and wickedly provocative stories. In "Faith and Hope Go Shopping," two elderly women dream of escaping their nursing home and trading in their leatherette slip-ons
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Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $24.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-06-055914-4
Bestseller Harris (Holy Fools
) exposes the brittle line dividing the haves and have-nots in this disturbing yet strangely rewarding morality tale set in the hallowed halls of St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school hovering on...
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Joanne Harris, Author . Knopf $18.99 (526p) ISBN 978-0-375-84444-7
In Norse myth the whole world ended with Ragnarók, the last battle, at which the gods were defeated and after which eternal winter descended. In her highly successful first children’s novel, however, the author of the bestselling...
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Joanne Harris, Author . Morrow $24.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-061431-62-3
Harris revisits characters from 1999’s bestselling Chocolat
in this equally delectable modern fairy tale. More than four years have passed since Vianne Rocher pitted her enchanted chocolate confections against the local clergy’s...
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Joanne Harris, Author Harper Perennial $13.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-06-078711-0
In the first American release of her 1994 second novel, Chocolat, author Harris dives headlong into a ferocious Gothic ghost story. Henry Chester, the son of a stern Oxford minister and his unapproachable wife, develops an unhealthy interest in...
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Joanne Harris, Author Viking Books $22.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-88179-6
The battle lines between church and chocolate are drawn by this British (and part French) author in her appealing debut about a bewitching confectioner who settles in a sleepy French village and arouses the appetites of the pleasure-starved...
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Joanne Harris, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-97872-4
Like her well-received 1999 novel, Chocolat, Harris's latest outing unfolds around the arrival of an outsider in a tiny French town. This time wine replaces chocolate as Harris's magic elixir, and the newcomer to the village of Lansquenet sur Tannes
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Joanne Harris. Viking, $26.95 (459p) ISBN 978-0-670-02636-4
Harris returns to the setting and heroine that will be familiar to readers of her bestselling Chocolat series. Vianne Rocher is summoned back to the village of Lansquenet by a friend who is seeking to smooth tensions between the Christian community...
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Joanne Harris, Author, Steven Pacey, Read by , read by Steven Pacey. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-112328-3
At the heart of Harris's riveting new book is a major secret, and veteran British stage actor Pacey does everything in his power not to give away even the slightest hint of it to audio listeners. Pacey plays both sides of the story's central
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Joanne Harris, Author, Susanna Burney, Performed by HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-155764-4
Harris's haunting sequel to Chocolat gets a credible, though uneven, performance from Susanna Burney, who narrates the story of Yanne Charbonneau, the confectionary artist formerly known as Vianne Rocher now living in dowdy anonymity in Paris with...
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Joanne Harris. Touchstone, $26 (426p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5551-2
Roy Straitley, the narrator of this tepid psychological thriller from Edgar-finalist Harris (Gentlemen and Players), teaches Latin at St. Oswald’s, a British boys boarding school. He favors those he terms his Brodie Boys, a gaggle of misfits much...
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Joanne Harris. Pegasus Crime, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-64313-905-0
In 2006, Rebecca Buckfast, the protagonist of Harris’s enthralling third thriller set at St. Oswald’s (after 2016’s Different Class), becomes the first female head in the Yorkshire school’s 500-year history. Before her appointment, St. Oswald’s was...
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Joanne Harris. Pegasus Crime, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-63936-471-8
This incendiary, brilliantly plotted thriller from Harris (Chocolat) centers on 48-year-old Bernie Ingram’s midlife crisis. As a child, when “magic was as easy as maths,” Bernie honed a supernatural ability to see into the minds of others. Now,...
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Joanne Harris. Pegasus, $28.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63936-663-7
Bestseller Harris (Chocolat) delivers a sweetly upbeat urban fantasy in which—unbeknownst to humans or the supernatural Sightless Folk with whom they coexist—the Butterfly and Moth Kingdoms wage an ancient war. Tom Argent lives a quiet, solitary...
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