Antoine Laurain is, amongst much else, a master of the ‘time-shift’ novel (The Readers’ Room, Vintage 1954). However, Red Is…
Antoine Laurain
Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954…
1954 was indeed an eventful, vintage year in France – especially in politics. It began with the Berlin Conference discussing…
The title says it all: smoking kills – though in the case of this novel, the victim is not the…
This is one of those books you could devour in a few hours but which then baits the mind for…
Real life isn’t as static and as matter of fact as we might think. We simply limit the vocabulary about…