We have a wide range of secondhand books in both English and French, mainly fiction with a varying selection of non-fiction. We have approximately 4000 English books in stock most of the time, and you are welcome to come and browse to your heart's content. We are constantly adding to this stock.
Authors in English include: Jeffrey Archer, Elizabeth Allende, Jean Auel, Dan Brown, Peter Carey, James Clavell, Catherine Cookson, Jilly Cooper, Bernard Cornwell, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Crichton, John le Carre, Dick Francis, Jonathan Kellerman, David Lodge, Alistair Maclean, James Michener, David Nobbs, Molly Parkin, Annie Proulx, Kathy Reichs, Vikram Seth, Alexander McCall Smith, Wilbur Smith, Paul Theroux, Craig Thomas Anne Tyler etc. - a constantly changing list.
There is also a collection of Science Fiction with works by: Asimov, Ballard, Bova, Clarke, Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle,Simak, van Vogt and plenty more.
We have about 7000 French books in stock, and this number is growing. Authors in French include many of the Classics: Balzac, Dostoievsky, Dumas, Flaubert, Gautier, Hugo, Laclos, Poe, Rabelais, Sand, Stendhal.
We also have a varied modern selection of authors in French including, Buck, Camus, Cronin, Fleming, Higgins Clark, Kessel, du Maurier, Pagnol, Peyrefitte, Sagan, Soljenitsyne, Steel etc.
We have a large and varied selection of French non-fiction, including biographies, philosophy, health matters, religion, economics and politics.
If you buy a book in the bookshop, you can bring it back for 1 euro credit against your next purchase, provided the book is in the same condition as when it was bought. This offer does not apply to internet sales.
sunday to wednesday closed
thursday 10.00 - 18.00 friday 10.00 - 18.00
saturday 10.00 - 18.00
or by appointment - telephone: 0296 36 59 00
The majority of our books are now listed with amazon.fr. Buying through Amazon allows you to buy online safely and easily. Since all our books are secondhand, they are available via Marketplace and we usually dispatch internet orders within 24 hours.
To find a particular title or author, go to: ‘LIVRES EN ANGLAIS’, then type the title, an author or an ISBN number in the box, having selected Rechercher ‘Livres en anglais d’occasion’.
Our books are listed here under the vendor name le_chat_qui_lit.
Unfortunately it is not possible to call-up a complete list of our books within Amazon.fr but you can always ask us for a list of what we have available for a particular author.
If you buy three books at a time from us (le_chat_qui_lit) via Amazon marketplace, we will reimburse you 2,99 euros of the delivery costs.
For larger quantities you can save a lot on postage by buying direct from us. Please send us a message [contact us] and we will let you know if we have what you want and we will give you a quote by email.
We also sell via Alapage.com (french and english) and 2xMoinsCher.com (french only). Both of these sites allow you to search our stocklist online.