Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954…
July 2020 – French Book Week
Vernon Subutex is a fictional biography that addresses several prominent themes of our times. The narrative is driven by a…
The remarkable success Sébastien Japrisot achieved with his highly engaging crime novels in his native France (where he was called…
How easy is it to reinvigorate a shopworn formula? One way is to shoot each familiar effect full of adrenalin.…
First of all: don’t trust the name. Fred Vargas, one of the most acclaimed of all current European crime writers,…
It was late in the day but still early in the genocide of August 2014 as the sun began to…