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...

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

Congratulations to Ken Loach for winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year for his film I, Daniel Blake! The prolific film director and...

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...

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

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...