"Dark, deep and cerebral, but the danger will almost stop your heart"— Sunday Times Crime Club The latest novel in Bernard Minier's...

"Latour's most important contribution to current debates may be his untimely insistence on the importance of thinking universally in a...

Returning from the Angoulême International Comics Festival, The BDL carefully selected a few French comic books soon-to-be released – or...

We had the pleasure to welcome the pupils of Reedham Park School, who submitted their film reviews and drawings of the animation...

What a delight it was to meet pupils from Hartley Primary School! Below you can browse through their thoughts and impressions of the...

PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS With a sort of trepidation, I have next to my computer keyboard a copy of the Penguin Book of...

It was January 16, 2017, and we were in the pit of winter. The huge buildings of South Kensington- the Museums, the high terraced...

Often, Africans are portrayed as an anonymous mass without individuality - for example, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is...

Baudelaire, in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, is Janus- like. He looks forwards, and he looks backwards. His verse forms are, on the whole,...

Mid- December had arrived in South Kensington, and winter was descending upon buildings and streets, as if it could swallow up everything...

"Hear Our Defeats is a grand poem, a crazy and wise book. Crazy because the reader gets carried away by all the voices and some unknown...

‘A most important book on the history of Jews in Vichy France. This meticulously researched work  is already standard reading in the...

January 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist and existentialist book The Second Sex (Le...

"A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster. It seems designed single-mindedly to remind us that,...

Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne, first published in France as Portrait en pied de Suzanne, is the first Roland Topor book to be...

'This is the first true biography of one of the greatest French intellectual of the twentieth century, who lived to the age of 100 and...

'Among the greatest cartoonists of his generation' - Le Monde 'An authentic,emotionally honest memoir' - The Guardian One month after the...

The 2018 edition of the South Ken Kids festival has officially started! The festival is the perfect occasion to celebrate children’s...

Can you feel the South Ken Kids Festival coming? Our Book of the Week is definitely giving us some clues. Drawing Europe Together is a...