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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

“Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality” – Leila Slimani author of Lullaby “A...

As we have stated before, we believe literature to also be a political object, and a great means of conveying political engagement for...

"Djavadi here offers an account of an Iranian family, through revolutions, relationships, and diaspora, and she does so with a voice...

"An unusual storyteller who has extensively researched the period he skillfully brings to life, Didier Decoin dazzles with his sense of ...

“A pure diamond, a magnificent event. A mind-blowing debut novel.” – Le Point Ali Zamir's debut novel is something of an experiment. Told...

"This polyphonic novel portrays a merciless war waged by humanity on wild nature. This is the battleground where the author tears to...

'An intense story, often amusing, which plunges the reader into the most unfamiliar territory imaginable' – Verités 'A book to give those...

'Frenkel writes with a novelist's observing eye: her cool detachment in the heat of persecution and attempted flight brings both the...

"A novelist whose concern with how we should live and what we can believe puts him in the tradition of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus"...

Born in 2018, the 2019 European Poetry Festival will take place between April 4th and April 15th 2019. It will invite over 70 European...