If fiction in translation is up your street, you must have read (about) Maylis de Karengal. Her epic yet intimate prose, brilliantly...

By all accounts, Alain Mabanckou’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France in March 2016 was thoroughly engaging and intellectually...

Hip hip hip... This May, Waterstones' Fitcion Book of the Month is The Reader on the 6.27, written by French best-selling short-story...

Today, we'd like to present you a small book containing a powerful story: Confessions of a Madman, by Leïla Sebbar. Published in France...

This week, all lights on Muriel Barbery! The bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, is back in the UK to present her new...

Next tuesday, on the 10th May, Professor Noami Segal will present her new translation of Didier Anzieu's book The Skin-Ego in the...

I write, you write, he writes… I read, you read, he reads… " Talking about ‘littérature engagée’ is out of date! We all have, at some...

Michel Tournier addresses two equally dangerous subjects- fascism and pedophilia- in his ‘Le Roi Des Aulnes’. He comments on history-...

How exciting! Two French books translated into English feature in this year's PEN Promotes award selection: About My Mother, Tahar Ben...

It always seems complicated to live simply. Thankfully, with Dominique Loreau’s L’Art de la Simplicité (How to Live More With Less), you...