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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...


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...


Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon
‘Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from...


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...


A Walk Through Paris, Eric Hazan
The Book Office is delighted to present the Book of the week: A Walk Through Paris. A radical exploration, by Eric Hazan. You're stuck in...


"The Book of Pearl", by Timothée de Fombelle
“Do you believe in fairies? If you believe”, like Peter Pan, “clap your hands” and immerge yourself into The Book of Pearl. Even if you...


"A Woman Loved", by Andreï Makine
Catherine the Great, the most renowned and longest-ruling Empress of Russia, who was also widely seen as a clever politician, an...


"The Hatred of Music", by Pascal Quignard
Pascal Quignard is considered one of the most important names in contemporary French literature. He won the Grand Prix de l’Académie...
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