A fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life.

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The French Book Office is delighted to reveal the books selected for the Burgess programme 2020!

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality.

Original and amusing, it's French noir with a sly smile (Karen Robinson The Times Crime Club). After their successfully exposing corruption by solving three ...

This immensely satisfying thriller about a prep school scandal and three friends' buried secrets had me turning the pages well into the night. The Reunion ha...

"A thrilling manhunt through the taiga." Claire Devarieux Libération The archipelago of another life is set in the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, i...

“What I physically feel is the need for is fatigue. More precisely, the range of subtly different kinds of fatigue. For just as there exist a hundred ways of...

'[Chantal Thomas] has invented a new literary genre: the liquid memoir, the watery autobiography... Chantal paints a striking portrait of her mother, so lack...

“Pujol’s pleasant and fun debut features well-rounded characters and a delicious, Parisian appreciation of food [ . . . ] Sexy encounters, irreverent humor, ...

Between 28 June and 14 July, London will welcome the 2019 edition of the Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture festival. Founded in 2011 by the Mayo...

A Franco-British Children's Publishers Meeting will be taking place on 24 and 25 June; organised by the BIEF (Bureau International de l'Edition Française), i...

The annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts has just closed its 31st edition. Founded in 1988 by Peter Florence and his parents Norman Florence and Rhoda Lew...

Last weekend, Hackney came alive with the 8th edition of the East London Comics & Arts Festival, reuniting artists UK, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Lebanon, ...

"Here is the most violent book of contemporary literature – that is, a book of beautiful, regenerative violence." - J.M.G. Le Clézio "The acts of excess, atr...

“Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy” "Which philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to av...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (in French, Le Petit Prince, originally published by Gallimard en 1942) is well-know for being the most translat...

"The novelist returns to the genre that made her famous--the short story--with grace." --Le Figaro "The voices heard in these seven stories, each entirely di...

“The Rain Watcher is a poignant and moving story of a family in crisis. As flood waters rise in Paris, the men and women of the Malegarde clan struggle not...