Books of the Night!

At the Book Office, we are very happy to welcome tonight the 'Night of ideas'!

Some of our speakers and guests have published books. Let's show you our 'Books of the Night'!

What's on ?

Launched by the Institut français in 2016, the Night of Ideas is a global project staged simultaneously in Paris, London and worldwide.

The Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Scientific Department and the Cultural Department of the French Embassy have created a thought-provoking programme of free debates exploring the latest ideas behind issues central to our times. Inspired by the Power to the Imagination slogan of the Paris May 1968 protests, the Night of Ideas invites audiences to an open debate on the new futures unfolding in the cultural, artistic and scientific fields, as well as in our political and philosophical frames of discussion. Crossing French, British and European perspectives, leading experts, artists and researchers will explore the major aspirations of our times, from the prestigious to the unexpected.

All the Night will be broadcasted in live online, follow it on our website.

The bookshop 'La Page', very close to the French institute, will be openned during the 'Night of ideas', if you want to carry on the talks discovering those books!

Our 'books of the Night'!

Frédérique Bedos

La Petite Fille à la Balançoire, with Valérie Peronnet, J'ai lu, 2015.

Karol Beffa

Les Coulisses de la création, with Cédric Villani, Flammarion, 2015

György Ligeti, Fayard, 2016

Parler, jouer, composer. Sept leçons sur la musique, Seuil, 2017

Le Roi qui n'aimait pas la musique, Gallimard Jeunesse, 2017 (with Mathieu Laine, Louis Thomas, Renaud Capuçon, Paul Meyer and Patrick Bruel)

Diabolus in Opera, Alma, 2018

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

Suffrage Outside Suffragism: Women's vote in Britain, 1880-1914, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007

Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937, Routledge, 2017 (with Rebecca Rogers)

Jonathan Cross

The Stravinski Legacy, Cambridge University Press, 2008

Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus, Routledge, 2009

Ken Loach

I, Daniel Blake, Route Publishing, 2016

Thomas Pesquet

Thomas Pesquet, 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse, Reporters sans frontières, 2017

Terre(s), Michel Laffont, 2017

(About) Dans la combi de Thomas Pesquet, de Marion Montaigne, Dargaud, 2017

Timothy Peake

Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space, Century,2017

Hello, is this planet Earth? My View from the International Space Station, Century, 2017

Agnès Poirier

Touché: a French Woman 's Take on the English W&N, 2007

Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

Mathieu Sapin

Le château : un an dans les coulisses de l'Elysée, Dargaud, 2015

Campagne présidentielle : six mois dans les coulisses de l'équipe de campagne de François Hollande, Dargaud, 2017

Gérard: cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu, Dargaud, 2017

Posy Simmonds

Fred, Andersen Press, 2014

Baker Cat, Andersen Press, 2014

Anaïs Vaugelade

L'ami du petit tyrannosaure, L'Ecole des loisirs, 2005

Comment fabriquer son grand frère : un livre d'anatomie et de bricolage, L'Ecole des loisirs, 2016

We look forward to seeing him at the French institute!

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