My own stay at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, on the Charcot ward for neurological disease, was thankfully rather less…
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The sad occasion of Marcel Péricourt’s funeral turns profoundly tragic when his grandson falls from a second-floor window. The child’s…
Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational family saga is a compelling tale of a family caught in the fallout from France’s ill-fated colonial…
Frank Wynne is a star of French literature – in translation. One of the UK’s top translators into English, he…
A road forks – one brother becomes a libertine, the other a micro-biologist traveller. Houellebecq explodes our complacency and shapes…
The Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes celebrate individual talents and the importance of the art form. These winning books, spanning…