Scotland is a country which loves France and which France loves just as much. The Auld Alliance, as its name suggests, is one of, if not...

This month is is the Women in Translation Month, during which publishers and bookshops draw attention to continuing gender imbalances in...

Many of you may already be on holiday or about to leave work behind for a couple of blissful weeks; or perhaps you’re still stuck with...

Timothée de Fombelle is someone whom the Book Office, along with his publisher Walker Books and his translator Sarah Ardizzone, has had...

Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Éditions du Sous-Sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton. Last...

Festival of Flowers, Nice (Fête des fleurs), 1923. Henri Matisse The Book Office would like to pay a tribute to Nice in its own way, by...

The Book Office team of the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni has been working to release an up-to-date list of French titles in...

Barroux is a household name in contemporary French illustration. He was born in Paris but grew up in Morocco, returning to France to...

On the 14th of July, Weidenfeld & Nicolson are publishing this fascinating account by Anne Sebba of the lives of people, women in...

Yves Bonnefoy was born on the 24th of June 1923. He died aged 93 years old, on the 1st of July 2016. He was a poet, an art critic and...