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AUTHOR PROFILE: CEDRIC VILLANI
At the Edinburgh Book Festival? Try getting tickets for the Cedric Villani event today! Prolific writer and mathematician Villani...


CAMUS REVISITED
Catch up on an event which took place at the Institut français on the 24th of June 2015. Jeremy Harding (London Review of Books), Abraham...


EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL ANNOUNCMENT
From the 15th to the 31st of August we'll be heading to Edinburgh to support some of our favourite French authors at the world-famous...


LAKES COMIC FESTIVAL 2015
Love French comics? Fancy a trip to the Lake District this autumn? Why not try out the Lakes International Comic Art festival in Kendal...


BURGESS PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT
All you wanted to know about the Burgess Translation Grant… As you might have seen from our previous posts, here at the Book office, we...


BOOK OF THE WEEK: SYMBOLIC MISERY VOLUME 2 - THE CATASTROPHE OF THE SENSIBLE BY BERNARD STIEGLER
This week's book of the week is Symbolic Misery Volume 2 - The Catastrophe of the Sensible by Berndard Stiegler, translated by Barnaby...

GUEST POST BY NATALIE D'ARBELOFF: REDISCOVERING BLAISE CENDRARS
Writer Natalie d’Arbeloff revisits Blaise Cendrars’s poem Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France via translation and...


GUEST POST BY PHILIP MANSEL: NAPOLÉON’S MYTH UNCOVERED
As we celebrated the great battle of Waterloo – disregarding who won or who lost it –, a special figure came to mind: Napoléon Bonaparte....
BD FOR BRITS
Roll up, roll up...it's time to delve and discover the world of Bande dessinée. First up, we have the wonderful Paul Gravett (comics...

ALL ABOUT PICASSO
Way back in April, we had the delightful writer Julie Birmant and artist Clément Oubrerie at the Institut français to discuss their...
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