Serge Joncour studied philosophy before he became a novelist and screenwriter, and while existential questions simmer just beneath the surface of events, his elegant, lyrical style
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
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
