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Graham Robb on Parisians
Posted On: June 23, 2010Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Picador
No-one knows a city like the people who live there – so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers, murderers, prisoners and prostitutes.
Read More...Read an extract from The Nicolas le Floch Affair, by Jean-François Parot
Posted On: March 25, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Commissioner Le Floch’s adventures reach their fourth instalment in Jean-François Parot’s acclaimed historical crime series.
Read More...Watch the trailer for No and Me, by Delphine de Vigan
Posted On: March 9, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Watch a trailer for Delphine de Vigan’s bestselling novel, No and Me, newly translated from the French by George Miller.
Read More...An interview with Jean-Francois Parot, by Anna Brown
Posted On: February 24, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
Anna Brown interviews Gallic Books’ master of historical crime, Jean-Francois Parot, and talks to him about diplomacy, food, and his creation, police commissioner Nicolas le Floch.
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Sun King Rises
Posted On: January 19, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Enjoy the first chapter of Jego Yves and Lepee Denis’s explosive historical thriller with Bookhugger.
Read More...The Book Doctor at large
Posted On: July 30, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: The Book Doctor
The Book Doctor – a National Help Service for those with problems of a bookish disposition (don’t forget that you too can ask the Book Doctor for help). Without further ado, here are this month’s victims, erm, patients…
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