Joanne Harris Books In Order

Vianne Rocher Books In Order

  1. Chocolat (1998)
  2. The Lollipop Shoes (2007)
  3. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure (2012)
  4. The Strawberry Thief (2019)

Malbry Books In Order

  1. Blueeyedboy (2010)
  2. Gentlemen and Players (2005)
  3. Different Class (2016)
  4. A Narrow Door (2021)

Novels

  1. The Evil Seed (1992)
  2. Sleep, Pale Sister (1994)
  3. Blackberry Wine (2000)
  4. Five Quarters of the Orange (2001)
  5. The Coastliners (2001)
  6. Holy Fools (2003)

Omnibus

  1. Joanne Harris Box Set (2002)

Collections

  1. Jigs and Reels (2004)
  2. Because I’m a Girl (2010)
  3. Any Girl Can Be a CandyKiss Girl! / Tea with the Birds / The G-SUS Gene (2011)
  4. Auto-da-fe / Free Spirit / Fule’s Gold (2011)
  5. Class of ’81 / Come in, Mr Lowry, Your Number Is Up! (2011)
  6. Eau de Toilette / Fish / Never Give a Sucker… (2011)
  7. Faith and Hope Go Shopping / Hello, Goodbye (2011)
  8. Gastronomicon / The Ugly Sister (2011)
  9. Last Train to Dogtown / The Little Mermaid (2011)
  10. A Place in the Sun / Al and Christine’s World of Leather / The Spectator (2011)
  11. A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String (2012)
  12. Four For Fantasy (2013)

Novellas

  1. Breakfast at Tesco’s (2011)
  2. Waiting for Gandalf (2011)

Non fiction

  1. The French Kitchen (2002)
  2. My French Kitchen (2003)
  3. The French Market (2005)
  4. The Little Book of Chocolat (2014)

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Joanne Harris Books Overview

Chocolat

Greeted as ‘an amazement of riches…
few readers will be able to resist’ by The New York Times, Chocolat is an enchanting novel about temptation, pleasure, and the ultimate folly of self denial. The town of Lansquenet, solemnly preparing for Lent, is set astir when Vianne Rocher and her spirited daughter arrive on the heels of the carnival and open a Chocolate shop across the square from the church. Vianne’s uncanny ability to perceive her customers’ private discontents and alleviate them with just the right Chocolate treats quickly charms the villagers and enrages Pere Reynaud, the conservative local priest. Certain that only a witch could create such magical cures, Reynaud vows to block the Chocolate festival Vianne plans for Easter Sunday and to run her out of town forever. Witch or not she’ll never tell, Vianne soon sparks a dramatic confrontation between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure. ‘Delectable…
delicious’ USA Today’Part fairy tale, part morality tale, laden with high farce and tongue in cheek humor…
suffused with lush detail and finely drawn interesting characters.’ Philadelphia Inquirer’Harris writes with verve and charm…
if Colette and Hawthorne had collaborated, the result might have been this serious delight.’ The New Yorker The perfect treat for Valentine’s Day and Easter

The Lollipop Shoes

Since she was a little girl, the wind has dictated every move Vianne Rocher has made, buffeting her from the small French village of Lansquenet sous Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. Her new home above the chocolate shop offers calm and quiet; no red sachets by the door; no sparks of magic fill the air. Conformity brings with it anonymity and peace. There is even Thierry, the stolid businessman who wants to care for Yanne and the children. On the cusp of adolescence, an increasingly rebellious Anouk does not understand. But soon the weathervane turns…
and into their lives blows the charming, enigmatic and devious Zozie de l’Alba. And everything begins to change.

Blueeyedboy

A gripping psychological thriller played out in cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes.’Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother’s favourite. And he was a murderer.’Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on badguysrock@webjournal. com, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the disguise, deception and mind games that are offered by playing out one’s life on the internet.

Gentlemen and Players

Gentlemen and Players
Audere, agere, auferre.
To dare, to strive, to conquer.

For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald’s Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. But this year the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley is finally contemplating retirement. He is joined this term by five new faculty members, including one who holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Oswald’s ways and secrets. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: to destroy St. Oswald’s.

As the new term gets under way, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances, they are initially overlooked. But as the incidents escalate, it soon becomes apparent that a darker undercurrent is stirring within the school. With St. Oswald’s unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of its ruin. The veteran teacher faces a formidable opponent, however a master player with a bitter grudge and a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move, a secret game with very real, very deadly consequences.

A harrowing tale of cat and mouse, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before.

Sleep, Pale Sister

Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister a gothic tourde force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.

Originally published in 1994 and never before available in the United States Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry’s hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface.

Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris’s brim*ming cornucopia of talents.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Blackberry Wine

As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of ‘Jackapple Joe’ Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe’s simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall. Years later, Jay’s life is stalled with regret and ennui. His bestselling novel, Jackapple Joe, was published ten years earlier and he has written nothing since. Impulsively, he decides to leave his urban life in London and, sight unseen, purchases a farmhouse in the remote French village of Lansquenet. There, in that strange and yet strangely familiar place, Jay hopes to re create the magic of those golden childhood summers. And while the spirit of Joe is calling to him, it is actually a similarly haunted, reclusive woman who will ultimately help Jay find himself again.

Five Quarters of the Orange

The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris’s most complex and sophisticated work yet a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story. When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that, look place during the German occupation decades before. Althrough Framboise hopes for a new beginning. She quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrap book of recipes site has inherited from her dead mother. With this book, Framboise re creates her mother’s dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother’s sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle’s cryptic scribbles. Whithin the journal’s tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old. Rich and dark. Fire Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbling, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.

The Coastliners

Joanne Harris writes fiction that engages every one of the senses: reviewers called Chocolat ‘delectable’ and Five Quarters of the Orange ‘sweet and powerful.’ In her new novel, she takes readers to a tiny French island where you can almost taste the salt on your lips. The island, called Le Devin, is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while the more prosperous village of La Houssini re lies at her feet. You could walk between the towns in an hour, but they could not feel further apart, for between them lie years of animosity. The townspeople of Les Salants say that if you kiss the feet of their patron saint and spit three times, something you’ve lost will come back to you. And so Madeleine, who grew up on the island, returns after an absence of ten years spent in Paris. She is haunted by this place, and has never been able to feel at home anywhere else. But when she arrives, she will find that her father who once built fishing boats that fueled the town’s livelihood has become even more silent than ever, withdrawing almost completely into an interior world. And his decline seems reflected in the town itself, for when the only beach in Les Salants washed away, all tourism drifted back to La Houssini re. Madeleine herself has been adrift for a long time, yet almost against her will she soon finds herself united with the village’s other lost souls is a struggle for survival and salvation.

Holy Fools

With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade. In the year 1605, a young widow, pregnant and alone, seeks sanctuary at the small Abbey of Sainte Marie de la mer on the island of Noirs Moustiers off the Brittany coast. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a new name, Soeur Auguste. But the peace she has found in re mote isolation is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother. When a new abbess the daughter of a corrupt noble family elevated by the murder of King Henri IV arrives at Sainte Marie de la mer, she does not arrive alone. With her is her personal confessor and spiritual guide, P re Colombin, a man Soeur Auguste knows all too well. For the newcomer is Guy LeMerle, a charlatan and seducer now masquerading as a priest, and the one man she fears more than any other. Soeur Auguste has a secret. Once she was l’Ail e, ‘The Winged One,’ star performer of a troupe led by LeMerle, before betrayal forced her to change her identity. But now the past has found her. Before long, thanks to LeMerle, suspicion and debauchery are breeding like a plague within the convent’s walls fueled by dark rumors of witchcraft, part of the false priest’s brilliantly orchestrated scheme of revenge. To protect herself and her beloved child, l’Ail e will have to perform one last act of dazzling daring more audacious than any she has previously attempted.

Jigs and Reels

Novelist Joanne Harris has received widespread critical acclaim as the creator of richly evocative tales that vividly bring to life the world, rituals, and cuisine of rural France. Now the bestselling author of Holy Fools and Chocolat widens her horizons with Jigs & Reels her first ever collection of short stories. Each of the twenty two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the outrageous, the magical, and, sometimes, the eerily haunting. Wolf men, dolphin women, aging monsters, defiant old ladies, suicidal lottery winners, suburban witches, and middle aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear in Jigs & Reels where the miraculous goes hand in hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive, and the disturbing are never more than one step away. Whether she’s exploring the myth of beauty, the pain of infidelity, or the wonder of late life romance, Joanne Harris once again proves herself a master of the storyteller’s trade. An incomparable reading experience awaits anyone who willingly surrenders to the spins and leaps of Jigs & Reels. Take your partners, please…

The French Kitchen

Joanne Harris’ bestselling novels, ‘Chocolat’, ‘Blackberry Wine’ and ‘Five Quarters of the Orange’, are affectionately known as her culinary trilogy. In them, Joanne Harris whets our appetites with some tantalisingly delicious recipes taken from her own grandmere’s recipe book. For, like Framboise, the hero*ine of ‘Five Quarters of the Orange’, Joanne has family recipes which have been passed down through the generations and which she shares with us now in a mouth watering celebration of French cuisine. From pumkin soup to Moules Mariniere, from Tarte aux cassis to Fouace Aveyronnaise Grandmother’s festival loaf, and taking in salads, starters, fish, poultry and plenty more along the way, these are simple and stylish recipes from the heart of the French family kitchen. Illustrated with stunning integrated photographs and complemented by anecdotes from her family, past and present, ‘The French Kitchen‘ will be a must have cookbook for all lovers of food and France.

My French Kitchen

It’s not surprising that Joanne Harris’s novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, and Five Quarters of the Orange celebrate the pleasure and magic of food, since her fondest childhood memories are of making pancakes with her great grandmother M m e, picking blackberries with her grandfather in Yorkshire, and exploring the early morning markets of Noirmoutier. Now, with coauthor Fran Warde, Harris shares her treasured collection of family recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation in this illustrated cookbook. Harris encourages cooks to engage all their senses when cooking look at what you’re cooking, smell the ingredients, mix them with your fingers, and enjoy their sounds and textures. Cooking, she reminds us, is about as close to magic as modern society allows: to take a handful of simple, fresh ingredients and turn them into something wonderful, otherworldly. The 120 recipes include French classics such as Onion Soup and Onion Tart, Coq au Vin, and Cr me Br l e, as well as family favorites like Anouchka’s Chile Garlic Bread, great aunt Simone’s Marinated Tuna, and great aunt Marinette’s Slow Fudge Sauce. And, of course, there’s an entire chapter devoted to chocolate cakes, meringues, and spiced hot chocolate. My French Kitchen, a remarkable collaboration between Joanne Harris, a writer who loves food, and Fran Warde, a former chef who loves to write about food, belongs in your kitchen.

The French Market

Following the success of My French Kitchen, bestselling author Joanne Harris and Fran Warde present a deliciously simple collection of recipes that draw inspiration from the rural markets of Gascony and emphasize rustic, fresh flavors and a relaxed, tossed together style. From large, lumpy tomatoes bursting with taste, to sun ripened melons, to goat cheese rolled in fresh herbs, and to locally produced organic honey, this is food as nature intended.

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