Antoine Laurain is, amongst much else, a master of the ‘time-shift’ novel (The Readers’ Room, Vintage 1954). However, Red Is My Heart is different: time is of the essence her
Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954 and The President’s Hat. The Readers’ Room, on
1954 was indeed an eventful, vintage year in France – especially in politics. It began with the Berlin Conference discussing the war in Indo-China and ended with Vietnam partitio
The title says it all: smoking kills – though in the case of this novel, the victim is not the smoker but those he kills (‘and not through passive smoking,’ he clarifies) in
This is one of those books you could devour in a few hours but which then baits the mind for a long time afterwards with the question ‘What was it really about?’ The writing st
Real life isn’t as static and as matter of fact as we might think. We simply limit the vocabulary about our lives, telling ourselves only one or two stories about who we are: We
Euro Stars: European Fiction in the UK: In or Out? With Tim Parks, Joanna Walsh, Antoine Laurain and Claudiu Florian 28th September 2016 Waterstones, Piccadilly ‘Tonight, me,
‘EUROPEAN FICTION IN THE UK: IN OR OUT?’ A Euro Stars event Curated and chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, Director of the European Literature Network September 28th 2016, Waterston
Antoine Laurain lives in Paris. His novels include The President’s Hat, The Red Notebook and French Rhapsody. The President’s Hat was a Waterstones Book Club and ABA Indies
Tim Parks is the author of fourteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Painting Death, all of them
