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Books of the Week 2018, it's a wrap!
What a tremendous year of books it was! Here is a list of every Book of the Week of the year 2018. You can click on each one to have more...
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne, Roland Topor
'Topor's drawings could be as violent as they were elliptical or caustic, he exploited the limits of taste. It is what makes him engaging...
Lévi-Strauss: a biography, Emmanuelle Loyer
'This is the first true biography of one of the greatest French intellectual of the twentieth century, who lived to the age of 100 and...
The Arab of the Future 3, Riad Sattouf
'Among the greatest cartoonists of his generation' - Le Monde 'An authentic,emotionally honest memoir' - The Guardian One month after the...
Edouard Glissant: a Poetics of resistance, Sam Coombes
'A single word captures that project's implication: freedom' - Neil Roberts, president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association Édouard...
South Ken Kids Festival's special Book of the Week: Drawing Europe Together by 45 illustrators
Can you feel the South Ken Kids Festival coming? Our Book of the Week is definitely giving us some clues. Drawing Europe Together is a...
The Mental Load, Emma
Celebrated French blogger Emma depicts the issues that weigh disproportionately on women – the invisible and unpaid mental labour like...
Goncourt prize winner Mathias Enard is in London and at the Institut français!
Mathias Enard is in London to launch Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, his novel translated by Charlotte Mandell and published...
The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession, Tristan Garcia
'Tristan Garcia demonstrates how at the most encompassing level of contemporary social roles lives the Romantic consumerist, forever...
Tropic of violence, Nathacha Appanah
'A brief, beautiful, brutal portrait of this tiny island in the Indian Ocean.' Le Monde. On the island of Mayotte, Marie, a nurse, adopts...
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