AdminApr 24, 20201 minTop 5 documents about nature and the environment Content about nature and the environment cherry-picked by the librarians of the Médiathèque and the Quentin Blake Library.
AdminApr 24, 20203 minFrench Films on streaming platformsMeanwhile the Médiathèque and the Bibliothèque Quentin Blake of the Institut are closed, we've compiled a list of streaming platforms
AdminApr 23, 20203 minInterview with comic book artist Jean-Marc RochetteAn interview with the alpinist and comic book writer Jean-Marc Rochette.
AdminApr 23, 20201 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 20, 20205 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 17, 20201 minLove French Literature? Why not participate in our monthly READING GROUPUntil we can all meet together face to face again, our traditional reading group is switching online via Zoom.
AdminApr 14, 202026 minChris Miller In Conversation with Yves BonnefoyAn interview with poet Yves Bonnefoy
AdminApr 7, 20202 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 7, 202027 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 6, 202023 minInterview with Adeline DieudonnéAdeline Dieudonné's debut novel Real Life was published in France in summer 2018 and has now been translated into English
AdminApr 1, 20201 minTop 5 picturebooks for Spring Let’s celebrate spring with these five picture book chosen by our librarians
AdminMar 12, 20202 minBook of the Week : Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné.A fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life.
AdminMar 11, 20204 minThree French Philosophers to watch out for Claire Marin, Elsa Dorlin and Barbara Cassin are philosophers respectiviely working on notions of rupture, defense and nostalgia.
AdminFeb 28, 20201 minCelebrate International Women's Day with Faïza GuèneCelebrate International Women's Day with literature at the French Institute in the UK.
AdminFeb 28, 20201 minBook of the Week : Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre.A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking.
AdminFeb 28, 20201 minA selection of kids' albums: stories by Michael Escoffier The Quentin Blake Library in South Kensington holds many kids' albums by the talented French writer Michael Escoffier.
AdminFeb 21, 20202 min19 must-read French books in translationThe French Book Office is delighted to reveal the books selected for the Burgess programme 2020!
AdminFeb 19, 20201 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.
