Claire Berest
Claire Berest is the author of novels, Bellevue (2015), Gabriële (2017), which appeared in the 2025 New York Times list of best historical fiction, Rien n’est noir (2019), winner of the ELLE Readers Grand Prize, Artifices (2021), L’épaisseur d’un cheveu (2023), and works of non-fiction. Her most recent is La chair des autres (2024), about the trial of ‘Mazan’s rapes’ and the story of Gisèle Pélicot.
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Frida
'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle 'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in…
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Artifice
'A breathtaking book confirming Claire Berest's inexhaustible talent as a storyteller' Elle 'An astonishing thriller' Libération Something strange is happening in museums across Paris. A…
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Artifice
'Terrific! Set in modern Paris, this literary thriller invigoratingly combines questions of identity, shenanigans in the art world, love and murder' MICHÈLE ROBERTS 'A breathtaking…