Joseph Incardona is a Swiss author, born in Italy and writing in French. He’s produced not only fifteen successful novels, but also scripts for theatre and cinema. Several of his
In the French Ardennes, a man’s body is found at the bottom of a lookout point above the Meuse river. Did he fall, commit suicide, or was he pushed? For the recently transferred
Perspectives begins, naturally, with a murder. Jacopo da Pontormo, the painter often credited with shifting the course of Florentine Renaissance art, has been stabbed through the h
Men have always let Rose down and yet she enters every new relationship with hope. Despite her efforts to convince herself that she’s happy in her lonely existence, the truth is
French writer Laurent Binet’s new novel, Civilisations is fictional history, turning true events upside down. What if a group of Vikings lands in North America and makes it as fa
This is a tense, tender novella set in Germany just after the Second World War. An English photographer tries to understand what he saw in the liberated concentration camps by driv
The most entertaining book I have read in years, and especially hilarious if you know anything about academia and/or 20th-century French philosophy. Derrida gets eaten by attack do
Leïla Slimani’s grim subject matter and complex, unlikable characters may not make her any friends among the English-speaking reading public, who seem to prefer relatable charac
A devastating and heartbreaking tragedy – exploring the character and possible motivation of Louise – the perfect, caring, conscientious nanny working for a young Parisian cou
What is the purpose of this book review? What is a book reviewer? Maybe it is a reader who is given unspecified entitlement to try to find meaning in a novelist’s writing and t
