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History of Violence, Edouard Louis
You liked The End of Eddy? Here is your chance to immerse yourself again in the words of Edouard Louis, with his radical and urgent new...
Centenary of the women’s vote in London
Let's take a quiet moment and go back to the women's rights movement in London, to coincide with contemporary events that led women in...
The Years, Annie Ernaux
The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ says the New York Times. It is a monumental...
Smoking Kills, Antoine Laurain
A little preparation is needed before you open this book of the week. Antoine Laurain, its author, gives you a trick: Close your eyes,...
Vernon Subutex 2, Virginie Despentes
Follow Vernon Subutex for a new episode with today's Book of the week, the second volume of Virginie Despentes's trilogy. Vernon Subutex...
Small Country, Gaël Faye
Small Country (Penguin) - Petit Pays, in French (Grasset) - by Gaël Faye and translated by Sarah Ardizzone is today's Book of the week...
Manderley Forever, Tatiana de Rosnay
For today's book of the week, the Book Office invites you to meet Daphné du Maurier, in a biography written by Tatiana de Rosnay and...
American Journal, Christine Montalbetti
Have you ever tried to understand the psychology of a lump of sugar which is trying to hide from the view of the coffee drinker? A...
The Major Refutation
The book of the week unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery,...
The Patience stone, Atiq Rahimi
For today's Book of the Week, the Book Office is taking you to the privacy of an Afghan home, in which a woman attempts to keep her...
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