To coincide with the upcoming Night of Ideas (2017), we invited francophile, philosopher and successful author Michael Foley to ruminate...

As part of the successful radio series Autant en Emporte l'Histoire, France Inter will broadcast a special episode dedicated to Edward...

Jean-Marie Borzeix, One Day in France: Tragedy and Betrayal in an Occupied Village (I. B. Tauris: 2016) On the Thursday before Easter...

Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film & TV Euro Noir by Britain’s leading crime fiction expert Barry...

Donald Nicholson-Smith, who translated into English 3 books by a Jean-Patrick Manchette, the French author of subversive crime fiction,...

This Guest Post was written by Bing Taylor, author of 'MAQUIS, The Secret War of Joseph Quantock'. Set in Occupied France during...

This blog post was written by Antoine Marlio-Marlette, a young student who has come to the French Book Office in London to discover how...

On 10th June, Dr Anna-Louise Milne was invited to the Balham Literary Festival to present her recent book, 75, published by Gallimard....

I write, you write, he writes… I read, you read, he reads… " Talking about ‘littérature engagée’ is out of date!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

A review of Noir Parfait, a novel by French writer Valentin Retz published by Gallimard in 2015 "The commercial distinction between...