France – A Bookish Type

The Name on the Wall, by Hervé Le Tellier

When Hervé Le Tellier bought a home in La Paillette, a hamlet in rural southeastern […]

Trigger warning for rape, racism. At the outset of Catherine Kurtz’s troubling novel, Feast, Minha […]

There are few things as satisfying to me in a story than women who, after […]

Trigger warning for brief description of rape and mutilation. I always read historical fiction about […]

In the heart of Paris, in the heart of the community of Russian exiles, Zina […]

The Battle of Verdun ended on December 18, 1916. Millions of artillery and gas shells […]

I’ve never read Baroness Orczy’s original tales of the Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, everything I […]

The Grand Mistress of Britain’s witches has decided that they will join the war effort, […]

There’s no one who can get on our nerves like family can. This is certainly […]

The people who board the train in Granville, a resort town on France’s Norman coast, […]