English-speakers such as myself are, for the most part, ready to adopt words and phrases from other languages that neatly…
Sept 2018
Most readers of Marc Augé’s work will know him primarily, or perhaps only, as an anthropologist. Indeed, he is the…
This is a very special collection, consisting of Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik’s poems and prose poems written in French during…
As My Heart Hemmed In opens, Nadine and Ange realise that they are despised in their community. They are both…
This new edition of the French classic is a particularly nested text. By which I mean it incorporates several sets…
INSIDE THE VILLAINS by Clotilde Perrin Recommended for confident readers aged 6+ or for the junior school (key stage 2)…
Jean-Claude Romand: a respectable doctor living in Prévessin near the French-Swiss border and working as a researcher at WHO in…
Inhuman Resources is the first novel by Pierre Lemaitre I’ve had the chance to review and, reading it, it’s immediately…
‘The truth of memory is strange, isn’t it? Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own…
Leïla Slimani’s grim subject matter and complex, unlikable characters may not make her any friends among the English-speaking reading public,…
One of the pleasures of Nathacha Appanah’s nuanced novella is that it will leave you wanting to know more about…
‘I am writing in order to understand, and to bear witness …’ In the near future, in a country that…
Hunting Party begins with a somewhat startling premise: the reader is addressed by a rabbit. This is an animal with…
