AdminJul 19 minWRITING IS COLOUR BLIND – An interview with Maryse Condé The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana is the latest novel from the grande dame of Caribbean literature.
AdminJun 238 minBook of the week: TAZMAMART – 18 YEARS IN MOROCCO'S SECRET PRISON by Aziz BineBineTazmamart – 18 years in Morocco's secret prison by Aziz Bine Bine has been published by Haus Publishing and translated by Lulu Norman
AdminJun 182 minBook of the week: NAPOLEON AND DE GAULLE. HEROES AND HISTORY by Patrice GueniffeyNapoleon and de Gaulle. Heroes and History by Patrice Gueniffey has been published by Harvard University Press
AdminJun 91 minBook of the week: MEDICINE: A GRAPHIC HISTORY by Dr. Jean-Noël Fabiani and Philippe BercoviciMedicine: A graphic history by Dr. Jean-Noël Fabiani and Philippe Bercovici has been published by SelfMadeHero and translated by E. Gauvin
AdminJun 32 minBook of the week: HOW EVERYTHING CAN COLLAPSE by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël StevensEverything Can Collapse. A Manual for our Times by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens has been published by Polity and translated by Andrew
AdminMay 272 minBook of the week: IN SEARCH OF AFRICA(S) by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup AmselleThis important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial.
AdminApr 233 minInterview with comic book artist Jean-Marc RochetteAn interview with the alpinist and comic book writer Jean-Marc Rochette.
AdminApr 231 minBook of the week: ALTITUDE by Jean-Marc Rochette and Olivier BocqueAltitude has been published by SelfMadeHero with the support of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni via our Burgess Translation Programme
AdminApr 205 minBook of the week: LITTLE DANCER AGED FOURTEEN by Camille LaurensLittle dancer aged fourteen has been translated from French to English by Willard Wood and will soon be published by Les Fugitives.
AdminApr 72 minBook of the week: A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder has been translated by Frank Wynne and published by World Editions.
AdminApr 727 minInterview with Frédéric Beigbeder Frederic Beigbeder's last novel translated into English by Frank Wynne is A Life Without End (Une vie sans fin).
AdminApr 623 minInterview with Adeline DieudonnéAdeline Dieudonné's debut novel Real Life was published in France in summer 2018 and has now been translated into English
AdminMar 122 minBook of the Week : Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné.A fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life.
AdminFeb 281 minCelebrate International Women's Day with Faïza GuèneCelebrate International Women's Day with literature at the French Institute in the UK.
AdminFeb 212 min19 must-read French books in translationThe French Book Office is delighted to reveal the books selected for the Burgess programme 2020!
AdminFeb 191 minBook of the Week : The Edges of Fiction by Jacques RancièreWhat distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality.
AdminJul 25, 20192 minBook of the Week: Stick Together by Sophie HénaffOriginal and amusing, it's French noir with a sly smile (Karen Robinson The Times Crime Club). After their successfully exposing corrupti...
AdminJul 17, 20192 minBook of the Week: The Reunion by Guillaume MussoThis immensely satisfying thriller about a prep school scandal and three friends' buried secrets had me turning the pages well into the n...
