The book of the week unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery,...

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...

The Book of the week is Marie Darrieussecq's Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, translated by Penny Hueston and published by...

50 years since May 1968! Events are buzzing to celebrate the anniversary of the protests, and the Book Office would like to share an...

On 12 April, the Man Booker International Prize first selection was reduced to a shortlist of six titles, among which we're thrilled to...

Beyond Words, the Institut français's Live French Literature Festival, is back! Fill your diaries with bilingual events between May 14th...

You know that here at the Book Office, we love to make you discover books and authors you might not have heard of yet. Well today, we are...

What better person to interview an author than his or her translator? Than the person who spent hours reading, analysing, dissecting,...

Vienna. Nightfall. Franz Ritter, a musicologist - of whom the reader is quickly told that he suffers from an incurable and voluntarily...