'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction. An old woman lives alone in a...

Looking for the secret of the Parisian style? Read the words of 20 women telling the story of their own Paris... Two quintessential...

Simone Weil (03/02/1909 - 24/08/1943) was a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. 75 years after her...

From August 11 to 27, literature is setting the tone in the Scottish capital! The Edinburgh International Book Festival is back, and the...

Small Country (Penguin) - Petit Pays, in French (Grasset) - by Gaël Faye and translated by Sarah Ardizzone is today's Book of the week...

For today's Book of the Week, the Book Office is taking you to the privacy of an Afghan home, in which a woman attempts to keep her...

At the book office, we are very proud to announce that Olivier Rolin's novel Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life...

In the last few weeks, you might have heard the names of Emmanuel Macron, Leïla Slimani, Alain Mabanckou, and a number of other writers...

This week, discover what Le Monde described as 'a tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy....

Your better half is away? You are too tired to go out? You are single anyway? … … Well, that doesn’t matter at all, because what we would...