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

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

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

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

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

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

On the occasion of World Refugee Day (20 June), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) works to commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance...

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 Edinburg International Book Festival has just released their program: 900 authors from over 60 countries in more than 800 events for...

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...

« Madeleine Bourdouxhe is one of the more remarkable literary dicoveries of the last few years » - Jonathan Coe “The stories here reveal...

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...